Will They Target You Next?

Source: The Prepper Journal

Reading the recent headlines about the revelations that the IRS has been targeting conservative and Tea Party groups and that the Department of Justice has been caught tapping the phone lines of the Associated Press, I find myself in a state of shock. Is this disbelief because I had some rosy-eyed view of wrong and right? Is the sting of this sadness at a form of betrayal? No. I am shocked because I am honestly not surprised. What is worse is from what I have seen and heard out there, the only people who are surprised are the media. What does this mean for our country?

Amid the entire outcry I do find it a little humorous that people are worried about the AP and there has been at least one story about how they are holding up during this trying time. In anarticle from Politico yesterday they say:

“People are ticked,” said another. “Everyone supports the reporters involved.”

The behind-the-scenes anger — and heads-down determination of the AP staff members to keep doing their jobs amid the extraordinary public flap — comes as top executives from the wire service have mounted an aggressive public pushback against DOJ, calling its snooping a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” in a letter fired off to Attorney General Eric Holder. And yet something of a bunkerlike atmosphere has taken hold at the AP in Washington with no bureau-wide meetings or announcements about the DOJ’s action, AP sources told POLITICO.

I am not trying to make light of what happened, but this is hardly worthy of a ton of sympathy in my opinion. What about the rights of real people who are on the receiving end of a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” by the government every day? Where is the “bunkerlike” mentality for the rest of the world?

When people stop becoming shocked at the abuses from their governments and the quickening loss of liberties, that is when you realize how close to the proverbial cliff we are. When news like these two stories generates less buzz than the shake-up with American Idol, we should all collectively slap our faces 3 times and yell “Snap Out Of It”!

What this did start me to think about though was what’s next for our country? If this latest scandalous incident ends like most others, with a sweeping under the rug statement, theatrical hearings on the Hill and promises to “do better” all the while trying to convince us that some of this “was necessary” to keep us safe – what new paradigm should we expect to live under and what can we do about it?

What’s Next?

These latest two incidents highlight a very troubling trend. What we now know was the focus at least initially was the Tea Party or anyone associated with a group that held some expectation that Government should live up to the promises and limitations of the Constitution. This could logically extend to anyone who is fed up with the people in power over them whoever that may be at any given cycle. We’ll just call them the opposition. So the IRS doesn’t like the opposition now, but in the future the opposition could be just about anyone. Do you like Ron Paul? Do you like to raise chickens? Are you against any of the wars we are in? Do you have issues with our foreign policy? Do you question anything they tell you? Do you not want your children eating GMO food?

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