The Rapid Rise of the American Police State
http://www.naturalnews.com/038086_America_Land_of_the_Free_police_state.html
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
(NaturalNews) In … looking for the "big picture" of where America is headed, one pattern has emerged with striking regularity: America has quietly become less free in many ways than nations like Cuba, China and even Venezuela.
This is especially true in California, where "justice" has become a joke, and the power of the state is unleashed in personal vendettas against innocent citizens who have done absolutely nothing wrong other than refuse to bow down to state-run tyranny.
In California … a man was recently thrown in jail for four days for photographing police. …
In another case, California's raw milk man James Stewart has just been released from jail after being forced to sign a plea deal with L.A. County which accused him of the heinous crime of distributing unpasteurized milk. His punishment? Nearly four months in jail, being treated as a terrorist and denied nutrition to the point where he emerged looking like a Nazi war camp prisoner. The state then slapped on two felony charges, five years of probation, and a $300,000+ fine that the man has no way to pay because California raided his business at gunpoint, stole all his cash and then destroyed all the inventory of his business, including over $50,000 in fresh food.
This was all done … for the "crime" of running a members-only club where people could pick up farm-fresh milk, eggs, cheese, melons and other better-than-organic foods. … the government literally destroys your business, your inventory, your livelihood, your freedom and even your health. … prosecutors who went after James Stewart using infiltration agents, hidden cameras and other Stasi-style tactics borrowed straight out of the Communist Party.
Consider this for a moment: There is greater food freedom in Russian, Cuba and even China than in California. The idea of arresting people for selling raw milk is unthinkable everywhere else in the world except the United States of America …
On the human rights front, the United States of America has now plummeted to a level approaching that of North Korea.
Thanks to President Obama … the White House now creates secret kill lists of American citizens to be assassinated by government agents. This is not denied in Washington. It is, in fact, celebrated as an "important tool" for the completely fabricated "war on terror."
With his signing of the NDAA in late 2011, Obama also nullified due process and the right to a fair trial. Now, American citizens who are merely "named" by the White House as being possibly involved in anything they call "terrorism" can be kidnapped and taken away to secret government interrogation centers where they can be held indefinitely, without charge, without a trial and without any civil rights or human rights. …
America is an illiterate society, where the ability to read, write or think critically has all but vanished. It has been replaced by a mass of zombified, brain-dead, obedient boot lickers …
The TSA, meanwhile, has destroyed U.S. tourism by humiliating and molesting air travelers from all over the world who now refuse to come to America. Not even in North Korea are air travelers sexually molested by overpaid perverts and grown-up morons dressed up in a costume …
This happens nowhere in the world except America. … in America, returning veterans are cast aside by the failed VA hospital system and even labeled "terrorists" by their own government. This kind of cruel dehumanizing tyranny is uniquely American … Even in Singapore, where they literally beat criminals with canes in full view of the public, they do not sexually molest their own citizens as a requirement for travel. Only in America is this security theater insanity tolerated by the public. …
it is the lazy cognitive convenience of modern-day liberalism, where the convalescent, illiterate masses strive only to achieve a lingering state of feeling comfortably numb as tyranny multiplies all around them. From such vacuous philosophy comes the slow, steady slide from freedom to enslavement, from peace to war, and from truth to delusion.
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Call It What It Is: America Is A Police State
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/03/...ice-state.html
Over the years ... used the terms “creeping fascism,” “growing police state,” and “descent into totalitarianism” among others to describe the domestic situation in which we find ourselves … But the police state is not coming – it is here. The United States is a police state. …
The relatively recent concept of “pain compliance,” “rough interrogation,” and “rough rides” coupled with the long held tradition but fast increasing commonality of direct beatings, shootings, murders, and “on-site executions” by police in America have had the final say. Since 2003, police have killed more American citizens than were killed by “insurgents” in Iraq, …
The United States is now a country where millions of people are locked away in inhuman conditions of confinement, the overwhelming majority of them for crimes in which there was no victim. … behavior previously considered normal and innocuous is now mandated and regulated by a tangled web of government agencies. … any disagreement or defiance of those mandates will result in … an eventual confinement to a cage where the offender is treated like an animal at best. … children are regularly removed from parents by the State simply because of the parents’ economic status, political beliefs, or methods of upbringing. …
With the recent increase of PC fascism enveloping the nation, even free speech and expression, no matter how ineffectual, is becoming regularly silenced by the long arm of the law.
Children are being routinely arrested for acting out in elementary school …
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'WE ARE IN A POLICE STATE RIGHT NOW'
http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/we-are-in...ate-right-now/
Americans are increasingly living in a police state, and the road looks very bleak …
The issue is taking on additional urgency … after an online news article chronicled how police stormed into the homes of three supporters of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in the middle of the night, subjecting the citizens to intense harassment simply for backing Walker’s collective bargaining reforms in the state. None of them were ever charged. … episodes like that are becoming less of an exception and more of a rule.
“The government is watching everything you’re doing,” …
“If you watch just regular television news, you don’t realize there are 80,000 SWAT team raids (each year). There were only 3,000 of those in the early 1980s. There are 80,000 occurring annually now across the United States. …
digital intrusion into Americans’ lives is also skyrocketing. “How many Americans know that the NSA is now downloading two billion of your emails a day and American citizens’ text messages? They admit to hacking into 160,000 Facebook pages a day to see what you’re doing,” …
laws are now giving the government more latitude in investigating citizens and stripping constitutional rights away from the rest of Americans. “How many people know there’s a thing called the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that Obama has signed into being, which allows the military to come to your door if he thinks you’re an extremist, not a terrorist, and have you arrested by the military, taken away and put in a detention camp where you can’t see your lawyer or your family?” … this rapidly emerging threat is a far cry from what America’s Founding Fathers envisioned. …
“With the Department of Homeland Security handing out over $5 billion in military equipment, grenade launchers, MRAPS (Mine-Resistant Armored Protection Vehicles) … All the things you see in war zones, local police have those now.” … another increasingly common tool for local police is the stingray device, which puts Americans’ digital information at risk as police drive by their homes. “They’re fake cell-phone towers,” he said. “They download everything you’re doing on your cell phone so they can track you. And they do track you.” …
the training in the academies is very, very military. … police now using the term when they refer to American citizens as civilians. … the increasingly militaristic nature of police work changes how they deal with the public. … that’s a big problem because police seem far more likely to obey and execute all orders rather than object on moral or constitutional grounds. … when the police put on camouflage outfits or those black outfits in SWAT team gear, it actually effects their psychology and they view us much differently than they used to view us …
in Ventura, California “The police went through the door in the home of a mother and father. The parents had done nothing wrong, by the way. [The police] were in the wrong home. They said, ‘We have a year-old baby sleeping in that room. Please, I want to keep my baby safe.’ One cop actually pushed the door open and threw a flash bang grenade in the room and burned the baby … If your local community is not outraged when a baby gets burned by a flash bang grenade in a SWAT team raid, they should [be]. …
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