Few dare say it publicly: America has become a police state

   All the signs are in place, among which is the world’s largest prison population; both in sheer numbers and percentage of the populace incarcerated. If we are not a police state, one must ask, what are the indicators that will tell us that we’ve crossed the line? What are the signs we haven’t yet seen? 

We can debate all day about when, precisely, the descent began but there can be no doubt when the slide into the despotic abyss became precipitous. It was after the so called terrorists hit on September 11, 2001. We’re told terrorists wanted to deliver a blow to freedom. Our national leaders swore the terrorists would never win, and then spent the following ten years delivering relentless and massive blows to liberty as we had known it.

The decline has been fast but not fast enough for people to be as shocked as they should be. Freedom is a state of being that is difficult to recall once it is gone. We adapt to the new reality, the way people adapt to degenerative diseases, grateful for slight respites from pain and completely despairing of ever feeling healthy and well again. Similarly, we can hardly escape the presence of the police in our lives. I vaguely remember when I was young that I thought of the police as servants of the people. Now their presence strikes fear in the heart, and they are everywhere, always operating under the presumption that they have total power and you and I have absolutely none.

What’s more, all the time we spend obeying, complying, and pretending to be malleable in order to stay out of trouble ends up conditioning us to this slavery and changing our outlook on life. As in the Orwell novel: “1984” we have adjusted to government control as the new normal. The loudspeakers blared that all of this is in the interest of our security and well being. These people who are stripping us, robbing us, humiliating us, impoverishing us are doing it all for our own good. We never fully believe it but the message still affects our outlook. Benjamin Franklin’s quote about this has become so cliché that I can’t even cite it anymore…

THIS was the Standing Army that the Founding Fathers warned us about.

You may see replies to this post from very sincere and very well meaning people who consider themselves patriots. Some may vehemently deny what I am asserting. Some may call me a socialist or a wacko. The former I am farthest from, and the latter is entirely up to the beholder. However the facts are: the police are the enablers of tyranny and many refuse to understand that. 

You see, there are essentially two types of people in the world when you strip away the façade of race, gender and affiliation. There are the majority of us who choose to go about our lives and wish to be left alone; then there are those who think they know better than the rest of us. And these are the most dangerous of all because these insipid moral busybodies are responsible for the greatest crimes in history. 

I make this point because you can never, EVER convince them of their crimes. Because all they do, they do with the approval of their conscience. They do these evil things because they think they are doing the right thing. They will fight like demons to the death because of this. There is NO convincing them of the evil that they do or that there is really a better way.

Gun control advocacy comes from this mindset, as did Prohibition and all the other Sumptuary law in the world. Victimless laws classified as crimes against government: what Thomas Jefferson defined as tyranny, or that which is illegal for the people, but required for government. Seat belt law, red light cameras, no smoking, yadda, yadda, yadda… Because someone else knows what’s best for you better than you do for yourself.

That was their foot in the door. 

If we as a people mean to be free, first and foremost we must take back our natural right, indeed our responsibility for self defense. As long as the myth of State protection via a legal monopoly on the legitimate use of force persists, we will have these jackbooted thugs continue to abuse us under the guise of their “protection”.