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March 23, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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What happened in Freetopia? A video fable about what went wrong with America

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	Not long ago, there was once a land of freedom and abundance called Freetopia.
	There, the people worked the land.
	They grew and harvested and sometimes even smoked plants provided by Mother Nature.
	Most families farmed at least part-time, and while they weren't materially wealthy, they were largely happy.
	Parents spent quality time with their children, the family had time outdoors working the farms, rates of disease were very low, and crime was extremely rare, too.
	As a result, there were hardly any prisons in Fritopia.
	And due to the outstanding health of the citizens, there were hardly any hospitals either.
	There were no cancer centers, no diabetes clinics, and no Alzheimer's non-profits, because those diseases hardly existed.
	Doctors made house calls and charged reasonable rates that nearly everyone could afford.
	There was no insurance paperwork to fill out.
	And for those who truly couldn't afford to see the doctor, local churches and civic groups donated the money out of compassion.
	One day, something called television was introduced to Freetopia.
	Television brought the citizens commercial images of all the worldly things they didn't have.
	Teeth whiteners, riding lawnmowers, hair dyes, fashion shoes, cosmetic surgery, and, of course, bling.
	Upon seeing all this, the people of Freetopia unanimously screamed, We are inadequate!
	They formed a committee to find out how they could solve the problem of being inadequate.
	It was quickly decided they all needed more money to purchase the goods they saw on television.
	Then they would all feel more adequate.
	So they voted into existence a government and gave it the power to run their lives with the instructions that the government should focus on finding ways for everyone to have more money so they could all buy more stuff and thereby feel more adequate.
	The government sprang into action, announcing, we shall create jobs!
	The people of Freetopia cheered.
	Within just a few months, the government had created tens of thousands of prison guard jobs and government law enforcement jobs by criminalizing hemp, thereby turning hemp growers into criminals.
	Soon, millions of people across Freetopia were arrested, and prisons became a booming industry, hiring hundreds of thousands of government workers to serve prison food, guard the prisoners, and write colorful reports touting how much they were all helping society.
	Cheap prison labor also helped manufacturing companies make money, and the government said that was good for the economy, too.
	Despite all this success creating jobs, the people of Freetopia didn't feel more adequate.
	They actually felt less free, so they demanded their government take action to create yet more jobs to compensate.
	The government replied, we shall unleash economic stimulus programs!
	It then hired half a million people to walk around the country and count all the other people who were told to stand really still, so that a report could be written which announced the total number of all the people in Freetopia.
	This report was called the census.
	But it only created jobs for a short while.
	So some demanded a recount for continued job security.
	One government authority suggested they could create even more jobs by hiring people to run around the cities smashing in all the windows of all the buildings, thereby creating thousands of new jobs for window replacers.
	Expanding on that idea, a senior military official suggested that since war always resulted in an economic boom, the military could just bomb all the major cities of Freetopia and the nation would experience a golden age of abundance as a result.
	But the government ultimately decided to pursue a less ambitious plan.
	It would stimulate the healthcare economy by outlawing vitamins, herbs, and nutritional supplements, thereby encouraging people to become more sick and diseased.
	Shortly after this law went into effect, hospital business boomed.
	Jobs were created in the cancer industry, salaries for nurses skyrocketed, and the pharmaceutical industry, which was suddenly allowed to advertise its chemical products on television, began hiring sales reps in droves.
	As diabetes, cancer, and heart disease swept through the population, the healthcare industry saw record profits and was widely commended for saving the economy and contributing to the nation's GDP. But with all the drug advertising appearing on television,
	the people began to demand even more economic stimulus so that they could afford to buy erection pills and antidepressants to help give them a mental lift while their bodies eroded into painful degenerative disease.
	But even as they took more medications, the people of Freetopia still didn't feel more adequate.
	In fact, they felt more disconnected and depressed.
	So they demanded their government do something else to create even more jobs, hoping they would find new solutions that work better.
	The government replied, We shall protect you from terrorism!
	It hired demolitions experts to stage the collapse of a skyscraper and blame it on foreign terrorists.
	With terrorism as the justification, the government created a Department of Motherland Security and hired hundreds of thousands of agents to walk around airports, public stadiums, and city streets, carrying government-issued firearms and searching people by reaching down their pants and feeling their genitals.
	This was called security.
	The government then proceeded to outlaw the private ownership of firearms, causing local crime to skyrocket, which of course resulted in even more economic stimulus in the prison industry, which was growing almost as fast as the hospitals and the pharmaceutical giants.
	The people of Freetopia cheered the action, screaming, Protect us from terrorism!
	Even though none of them had ever been threatened by an actual terrorist, or even seen one.
	But the government proceeded to stage elaborate news propaganda campaigns in order to make the public believe it was finding and killing terrorists overseas.
	Government policy quickly became government theater.
	Despite the government's self-congratulatory success on the terrorism front, the economic stimulus programs still weren't working for most citizens, and the people of Freetopia found themselves poorer, sicker, and less free.
	They turned to television for entertainment, filling the emptiness of their lives by watching a show called Cops that featured people being arrested, beaten, and tasered for the crime of smoking certain plants.
	Meanwhile, prices were rising all around them.
	Food, fuel, clothing, and even housing.
	One man ran for office by creating the rent is too damn high party.
	As inflation eroded the value of their dollars and made their savings less valuable by the day, the citizens became desperate to be rescued by government, which they now worshipped as their provider of all things, forgetting that their ancestors had once provided for themselves and actually created the government.
	From such ignorance, they demanded one last time, Give us more government money!
	The government responded rapidly, enacting a program that allowed the government to take money out of every paycheck of every worker in the nation and then give that money back to them a few decades later when that worker retired.
	This was called Social Security!
	But when that still didn't do the trick, the government decided to give away 16 trillion dollars in economic stimulus money.
	Instead of giving the money away to the people, though, it gave the money to the nation's wealthiest bankers, hoping that perhaps the bankers would distribute some of those trillions of dollars by dropping suitcases full of cash from open helicopters.
	But they didn't.
	They just kept the money, paid themselves bigger bonuses, and bought more erection pills.
	The people of Freetopia, who were now disarmed, diseased, and indebted, realized they were in a bind.
	But now, having grown up on the idea that the state was their savior, they could only turn to government yet again, screaming, we need bigger government to solve all of these big problems.
	And so they cheered as the government launched into existence new regulators called FDA, USDA, DEA, EPA, ATF, FTC, and many other letters of the alphabet.
	Each department then launched its own private army of enforcers to maximize its power over the nation.
	Soon, government agents began policing home gardens, sports stadiums, high school dances, and random road checkpoints.
	People were arrested for growing tomatoes in their own front yards or rescuing baby woodpeckers because they are a protected species.
	Farmers markets were outlawed, holistic cancer clinics were raided and shut down, and pioneering cancer researchers were arrested by the government and thrown in prison.
	Jobs disappeared by the day as Freetopia's employers fled the country, which had devolved into an impossible place to conduct business.
	Jobless claims skyrocketed, so the government passed new laws allowing the jobless to collect paychecks from the government itself, even when they weren't working.
	Before long, four out of every five people in Freetopia were dependent on the government for their incomes, and the once prominent ideas of entrepreneurship, self-worth, and dignity quickly faded.
	Increasingly, Freetopians saw themselves as helpless dependents who had no control over their own lives.
	One day, a little boy who was studying history for a school paper read a chapter describing the history of Fritopia.
	Puzzled by the differences between past Fritopia and present Fritopia, he asked his mother,"'Mom, how come Fritopia used to have people who were healthy and happy, but today everybody is sick, unhappy, and broke?' His mother, a loyal supporter of the Freetopia government, replied, But son, today we are safe from terrorism.
	Our food supply is sterilized and no longer dangerous.
	The government saves our money for retirement for us.
	The prisons keep dangerous criminals away from society.
	The pharmaceutical industry is finding cures for all the diseases we have.
	And we are on the verge of an economic recovery.
	All we need is more government, and we will be living in a utopia.
	And so, because most people agreed with his mother, Freetopia devolved into a police state government.
	Private sector jobs all but disappeared, as most jobs shifted to the government itself, which ran a centralized command economy.
	That specialized in spying on its own citizens and imprisoning those who questioned the need for such things as a balanced budget or citizens' rights.
	Once created by the people to serve the people, the government of Freetopia had now become a ruler over the people, and it demanded their obedience.
	Any who questioned the wisdom of government rule or who claimed they had rights were labeled terrorists and thrown into secret prisons where they were kept indefinitely without even being charged with crimes, as any such rights had long ago been stripped away by the government itself.
	All this government activity cost a lot of money, of course.
	Because the government could not pay for all its expenses merely by taxing the people, it borrowed money from other nations and dug itself deep into debt.
	When other nations realized how much debt had been accrued and stopped lending money, The government simply printed its own currency and used it to keep spending on government salaries, entitlements, imperialist wars, and other programs that it insisted were all good for the people of Freetopia.
	But talk about the failure of big government began to grow.
	So in order to prevent the people from questioning its authority, the government staged repeated terrorist attacks on its own cities, using biological and radiological weapons.
	In the virulent fear that ensued, the government demanded complete obedience and loyalty from the citizens of Freetopia, over which it now ruled by force.
	All forms of communication were now monitored by the government, and the citizens were microchipped so that their physical movements could be tracked in a secret government database.
	One day, just as things seemed to be beyond hope, the government monstrosity of Freetopia breathed its last fiscal breath and collapsed into insolvency.
	The government paychecks stopped.
	The government jobs vanished.
	The currency became worthless overnight.
	And the capital city imploded into chaos and rioting.
	As the government collapsed, so did government restrictions on herbal medicines, hemp farming, and private firearms ownership.
	So the people began growing their own medicines, farming industrial hemp for clothing and textile production, and openly carrying firearms on their hips to protect themselves from the outbreaks of violence and looting.
	Armed vigilante groups sprang up to protect neighborhoods and small towns, and violent crime soon vanished everywhere except in the largest cities where only the criminals had been stockpiling guns and thus had a tactical advantage over the disarmed population.
	As agriculture was now set free, farmers reaped huge rewards from the growing of hemp seeds, hemp fibers, and hemp oils.
	Some of them smoked a little hemp and felt hungry, so they began to plant their own gardens and grow tomatoes, corn, cucumbers, and potatoes.
	Dairy farmers freely produce raw milk and cheese, fresh eggs, and non-hormone injected meat.
	Crop producers save their own seeds and planted non-GMO crops generation after generation with steady abundance.
	The people of Fritopia now kept their own paychecks and weren't taxed by a government that promised to save their money for them.
	Production skyrocketed.
	Business flourished.
	Employers returned to Fritopia and began hiring workers in droves.
	With the government gone, taxes were no longer confiscated out of their paychecks, so workers had more money to spend, which stimulated the economy and put the nation back on track to economic recovery.
	Absent the intimidation of the FDA and USDA, local food and medicine production quickly multiplied.
	The people became healthier and soon that led to them becoming happier too.
	Disease rates plummeted as people got more sunshine, fresh foods and natural medicine.
	Hospitals shuttered their doors, cancer clinics filed for bankruptcy, and the pharmaceutical industry, which had been propped up by an FDA-enforced monopoly, collapsed into ruin.
	The people of Freetopia now had farms, and freedoms, and family.
	They kept what they earned and lived peacefully in a society that they now realized was more just, more free, and more abundant than the government-run society which had enslaved and nearly destroyed them.
	They vowed to protect their freedoms at any cost and to prevent the rise of dangerous government from ever happening again.
	One day a slick young man with finely shaped hair and a sharp business suit spoke to the nation and insisted everyone would be better off if they all pitched in and created a new government to stimulate the economy.
	The people of Freetopia promptly hanged the man from a tree and returned to their farms to continue living as free people without the curse of big government burdening their lives.
	The man's body swayed silently in the breeze, along with a sign the citizens had created and strapped to his chest.
	It read, We predict future happiness for Freetopians if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

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