"Loss of
freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn't stand on the
doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband -- it creeps up
insidiously... step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen
realizes that it is gone." -- Baron Lane
What will we say when Oppression stands on our doorstep and rings the doorbell - or far more likely, kicks in the front door and rushes in with guns blazing? Worse yet, after having trashed your home and shot you or a loved one when you failed to respond quickly enough to their commands, you hear one of the jack-booted thugs complain to his buddy: "Aw shucks, we got the wrong apartment - it's Room 222, building Z - not C! But hey, we're all okay right - let's go kick some more butt!" Actually, you may be surprised to know that had you tried to defend your family and shot one of the assailants it is you who would have ended up behind bars, while the state-employed intruders get off scot-free for their actions in this wrongful home invasion, according to a recent State Supreme Court decision.
Welcome to life in your 'brave new world'. Close enough to home yet? - Tyranny, that is! Perhaps you need to wait until either you or an immediate family member is personally victimized before arising from your slumber and the false belief that 'no one should worry about the police and the law unless they have something to hide'. The articles below ask first "What Will We Say?" when our turn comes, followed by a suggestion concerning "How To Respond To The Awful Truth". Think about it - really!
Realizing that never-ending war tends to destroy both liberty and prosperity:
Police are supposed to 'protect and serve' - the laws, not you and me:
What Will We Say?
What will we say when the government announces that “for security reasons” it will begin conducting random checks of our homes? That we will be required by law to open our doors and stand aside while government agents do a walk-through, just to “be sure” and (of course) “to keep us safe”?It is a serious question, not (as I will be accused of purveying) exaggerated or paranoiac. After all, we are already told specifically that we have no legal expectation of privacy when we’re out in public and it’s been implicit for years now that we have very little left in the way of Fourth Amendment rights anywhere – even in our own homes. See, for example, the recent Indiana Supreme Court decision that a homeowner has no right to resist even an illegal, warrantless and probable cause-free entry by cops. A cop, possibly psychotic, without doubt armed and packing the state’s authority to administer lethal violence – can literally kick in your door, for absolutely no lawful reason whatsoever – and if the homeowner resists, it is the homeowner who is in violation of The Law. If, say, you are asleep in bed and are awakened suddenly by the sound of your door being kicked in and you – fearing for your life – grab the pistol you keep by your bed and shoot the unknown berserker, it’s you who will go to prison!“We believe,” said these latter-day Roland Freislers, that “… a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.” (Italics added) “We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.”And of course, we are told that we must Submit and Obey at airports. But that is hardly the end of it. As predicted, submission training is being expanded to bus stations and Interstates. The Department of Homeland Security is deploying its VIPR (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) squads of khaki-clad, sidearm-wearing, black shirted American SA all over this land for the sole purpose of further routinizing random, probable cause-free searches and, of course, assaults on what used to be regarded by most people as their inviolable personal space. Get people to accept crotch grabs and they will soon accept anything. The government knows this – which is precisely why the government is doing this. There is simply no rational reason, for example, to herd people leaving a train or bus into a gantlet of cops for a session of Submit and Obey. Yet this has been done – is being done – and will continue to be done. Because it acclimates people to the unreasonable, the unfair – the abusive. It is the whole point of the exercise, you see.
Now then. What will be the reaction when the goons in Washington announce that “terrorists” are finding refuge in “safe houses” – private homes? There could be a Manhattan Project in your next door neighbor’s basement – perhaps in your basement… .Far-fetched? Paranoid? Really? More far-fetched than crotch-grabbing 7-year-old white kids on the theory that their parents might be secret A-Rabs who perhaps bleached their progeny and outfitted said child with radioactive Underoos? Or demanding that crippled 80-year-olds remove their Depends for similar reasons? Or that because there might be a drunk driver out there on the roads, every single driver who happens to be on the road automatically forfeits his (former) Fourth Amendment rights? Or that is now illegal – in Indiana, at least – to resist an armed intrusion by a costumed thug into one’s own home?
It is not paranoid – and far from being far-fetched – to imagine where this will all inevitably lead. We – enough of us to give the illusion of consent, at least – have already conceded the principle. That “security” justifies almost anything. And probably, very soon, everything.We shall see.Friday, 18 November 2011 08:38by Zen GardnerIt's a volatile, challenging time to be alive, no doubt. The world is a landscape thoroughly scattered with catastrophic nightmares like flaming lava pits on a giant festering orb. And this huge array of drastic, life-threatening problems we're facing that are burning in the world's collective subconscious are apparently careening towards some mad, apocalyptic finale.The big question we're all faced with is this. Once we're aware of what's going on, what do we do? And more importantly, for those not willing to face the truth, what will it take to wake them up?And third: does that predominant attitude make it inevitable for the rest of us to share their fate?What does one do as they observe the deliberately imploded economy, the corporate thuggery pillaging the world, a manipulated media bent on an ignorant, placated populace, the ramped up rape of the environment, the poisoning of our food, water and air supply, the drugging of our children, and wars without end appearing to be leading up to a horrific nuclear conflagration?What is our role in what we discover to be a literally predatory environment in a hijacked world?Here's How: Identify The Problems Are Real and Deliberate:
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