America has not spread "liberty/freedom" the terrorists have spread

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tyranny.

Reading this, the parallels to what is currently taking place in "the place formerly known as America," are apparent.

http://www.constitution.org/tyr/prin_tyr.txt

~ The methodology of tyranny ~

The methods used to overthrow a constitutional order and establish a tyranny
are well-known. However, despite this awareness, it is surprising how those
who have no intention of perpetrating a tyranny can slip into these methods
and bring about a tyranny despite their best intentions. Tyranny does not
have to be deliberate. Tyrants can fool themselves as thoroughly as they
fool everyone else.

Control of public information and opinion

It begins with withholding information, and leads to putting out
false or misleading information. A government can develop
ministries of propaganda under many guises. They typically call
it "public information" or "marketing".

Vote fraud used to prevent the election of reformers

--- when news services start knowing the outcomes of elections before it is
possible for them to know, then the votes are not being honestly
counted.

Undue official influence on trials and juries

Nonrandom selection of jury panels, exclusion of those opposed
to the law, exclusion of the jury from hearing argument on the
law, exclusion of private prosecutors from access to the grand
jury, and prevention of parties and their counsels from making
effective arguments or challenging the government.

Infiltration and subversion of citizen groups that could be forces
for reform

Internal spying and surveillance is the beginning. A sign is false
prosecutions of their leaders.

"Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -- Frederick Douglass, civil rights activist, Aug. 4, 1857