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The Police State is Not
Coming - It is Here!
Dear Freedom Lover,
Are you getting
increasingly concerned about the number of civil liberties being
out-right STAMPED upon by this overgrown government? Liberty
advocates fear the worst is already here. How many times have you heard
people saying things like, “I don’t mind the government knowing who I
call on my phone because they are keeping us safe.”
The raid on our rights
ratcheted up in 2012 with a little known provision hidden away in the
2012 National Defense Authorization Act. This provision allows the military to detain without a trial, any American
citizen, accused of being a terrorist, or of supporting
terrorists who plot attacks against the United States. The ACLU called the proposal “an extreme position that
will forever change our country.”
This illegal and
unconstitutional detention provision is just one of many new policing
and law enforcement programs that have civil liberty advocates warned
and alarmed. And the government is doing this increased police state at
the same time they are criticizing your right to own guns! The
government is even trying to make self-defense a crime again!
All these external
threats, along with the technological advancements, the IRS, DEA, NSA,
Obamacare…and more, are all imposing new levels of government
infiltration into our privacy and increasing control of our lives!
These issues are big
and the time is short.
The Fourth Amendment
reads:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall
not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place
to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
This is a very specific
Constitutional edict. No law can replace it, add to it, nor take away
from it. Yet, progressive tactics are dividing “The Haves and The
Haves” and slowly boiling our freedoms away. We already know your
Fourth Amendment rights are being confiscated by our government and by
police departments acting like federal militia! And President
Obama has enabled and strengthened local police to aid HIS own federal
police force to create what is already feeling and looking like The
Police State of America.
IT IS Guaranteed under
the Fourth Amendment!
Tyranny is here!
Funny how sales of
George Orwell’s famous book “1984”
have spiked 6,000 percent in recent years. The grim future we read in
1984 has now become our reality.
How bad is it?
BITE BY BITE – THEY TAKE
OUR RIGHTS AWAY.
Indefinite Military
Detentions of U.S. Citizens
According to
supporters, the provision was part of the bill that authorized the
Pentagon spending for 2012, “America is part of the battlefield” in
the so-called war on terror, as Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire
described it.
Americans are fair game
when it comes to finding and arresting terrorists.
Targeting U.S. Citizens
for a Kill Order
This administration is
the first to legalize killing of American citizens without a trial,
without a court, or justice. Remember the radical Yemeni cleric Anwar
al-Awlaki, an American citizen that was killed in an American missile strike? This is such
a blatant violation of the 5th Amendment and it seals the
coffin on American citizens without due process of law.” According to
the Associated Press,
The CIA counsel
basically said American citizens are legitimate targets for killing if
they take up arms against the United States.
Drones spying on
American soil and upon We, THE PEOPLE
Police officials are
encouraging the effectiveness of drones in police actions, like finding
missing people, hunting fugitives, monitoring protests or checking for
EPA regulation violations on farmers.
What else?
These drones can monitor large urban areas and add business
intelligence and they can do things like, “seek out and record certain
types of suspicious behavior.” What does suspicious behavior mean? They
can use this tool on the American people! Are the drones armed? Do they
have weapons? Tasers? Water or bean bags?
These drones might
belong in the battlefield - BUT THEY DO NOT BELONG
ON AMERICAN SOIL!
The HUB and The EYE in
the SKY
All our personal and
deeply private information is being collected and is converging in the
new Utah data center where the NSA is integrating all the data on the
American people, perhaps to help implement the enforcing agency for
Obamacare!
The President said the
IRS assault on conservative groups stopped in May of 2012 but we know
now that isn’t true. In fact, spying and collecting personal and
private information seems to be the goal of this administration and
President Obama.
On top of all the IRS
revelations and scandal, this week Reuters reported that an IRS manual
actually instructs investigators on how to alter an investigative
trail. It articulates how to cover up how investigations begin. It
starts with all of data collected on Americans and shared across
agencies like the FBI, DEA, NSA and CIA.
Unconstitutional spy
agencies can just make up a charge and start an investigation. The
purpose and how they received the information, is made up, and is not
revealed to you. The government can and actually does
"recreate" a case to convict you! Believe me – It can happen:
This is why an "FBI Agent" can come to my door with
accusations about me taking pictures of oil refineries in Texas on
August 4 while driving a black Chevy Lumina. While I never have driven
a black Chevy, was not in Texas on August 4, and wasn’t taking
pictures, it made no difference. The government has evidence and I
would have to prove my innocence rather than being innocent until
proven guilty.
BITE BY BITE – THEY TAKE
OUR RIGHTS AWAY.
Witnesses Can Be
Arrested for Recording Police
Many legitimate
journalists, more than 30, were arrested while working and covering the
Occupy protests around the county. It didn’t matter that they had their
credentials and showed them respectfully. This kind of media
censorship represents a trend we see in law enforcement. Twelve states
have already adopted “eavesdropping” laws forbidding people from
videotaping police without the officers’ consent. In California, police
officials openly state they will arrest people taking photographs if
those people look suspicious!
GPS TRACKS Your Every
Move
Police across the
country use GPS devices to track thousands of criminal suspects every
year. THIS VIOLATES the Fourth Amendment prohibition against
“unreasonable searches and seizures.” Technology has come so far, in
such a short time, and the power to track a U.S. citizens’ every move
will only become more intrusive and dangerous to our freedoms.
This erosion is being
done by both Democrats and Republicans! Don’t be fooled.
Respected former Judge Andrew
Napolitano charges: “How is it that the government can charge Edward
Snowden with espionage for telling a journalist that the feds have been
spying on all Americans and many of our allies, but the NSA itself, in
a public relations campaign intended
to win support for its lawlessness, can reveal secrets and
do so with impunity? That question goes to the heart of the rule
of law in a free society.”
By now this must start
to sound like a Soviet-style police state!
The TSA
The New York Times recently reported that the TSA now operates outside
of airports! The agency wears bulletproof vests and are lethally armed
to patrol sporting events, music festivals and other large gatherings.
According the Times, these VIPR teams, as they are called, believe they
are “exempt from probable cause” when searching patrons of these
events!
The UPI reported that
on July 28, 2013
– A 95-year-old Illinois man died after police shot him with a
stun gun and bean bag rounds. Identified as John Warna, this
95-year-old man, in a nursing home, holding a cane and shoe horn was
somehow a threat to the officers! The police was called to an assisted
living home in the village of Park Forest. A private ambulance company
was attempting to transfer him to a hospital for medical treatment when
Mr. Warna picked up his cane and a shoe horn and became combative. The
Police said that Warna “was threatening the facility’s staff and
paramedics with a metal cane and a shoehorn when officers arrived.” So
the police shot 50,000 volts into the 95-year-old man. It
appears in the report that the officers were justifying their violent
and aggressive behavior by claiming he was wielding a “12 inch knife.”
A cane and a shoe horn.
This man could have
been your father or grandfather; totally innocent, not sure of what is
going on and suddenly he’s attacked by a police officer and dies.
And, the POWER CLASS is
only getting its foothold
In addition to the reported millions of unnecessary ammo rounds
distributed to federal agencies, the federal government is committed to
the militarization of the police. It is much more widespread than
previously thought, especially in small towns.
It goes much further...
In 1997, Congress added to a defense appropriations bill and created an
agency to handover surplus military gear to state and local police
departments. Since then, millions of pieces of equipment designed for
use on a battlefield have been given to police agencies for use on
rural American streets, against American citizens. And, it’s lethal
equipment such as tanks, bayonets, M-16s and armored personnel
carriers! What in the world is going on here?
Why are rural areas
getting military equipment they don’t need? Or, do they? What do they
know that we don’t know? I don’t know!
Under Obama, this
program has grown. “From Warfighter to Crimefighter”
President Obama resurrected COPS (The Community Oriented Policing
Services).
What is Community
Policing?
At the root of community policing is the intent to “develop and
implement strategies and processes that are fair, inspire public
confidence, contribute to mutual trust and respect between police and
citizens, and solve community problems.” It’s the idea where police
integrate into the community, live-in and become proactive members in
the community. They start mentoring kids and attending the local
church.
This IS NOT the
definition of community policing held by many police officials. In the
late 1990s, criminologist Peter Kraska found many police chiefs
consider frequent SWAT raids and similarly aggressive policing to be a
core part of a community policing strategy. In fact, some said they
considered sending SWAT teams to patrol entire neighborhoods to be
sound community policing.
President Obama and his
administration invested in community policing heavily saying the use of
“Problem-solving techniques will prevent and respond to crime, prevent
SOCIAL DISORDER and FEAR OF CRIME”! The Madison Capital Times police
agencies receiving COPS grants in during the 1990’s had indeed used
them to start SWAT teams.
Keep in mind that COPS
received a one-time shot in the arm of $1 billion from the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Better known as the Stimulus, it should
be called what it is - TAX PAYER REDRISTIBUTION!
"Community policing
initiatives and stockpiling weapons
and grenade launchers are totally incompatible.”
DHS Provides
Anti-Terror Grants to “secure” our Police State!
The Department of Homeland Security has been giving out its own grants
to police agencies. These grants are used to purchase military-grade
equipment in the name of fighting terrorism. Once a city has a new
armored personnel carrier, or new high-powered weapons, these police
agencies mostly put them to use in more routine police work, usually
drug raids. This is happening in towns all over America,
including unlikely terrorist targets like Fargo, N.D.; Fond du Lac,
Wis.; and Canyon County, Idaho.
The grants have also
given rise to contractors that now cater to police agencies looking to
cash DHS checks in exchange for battle-grade gear. This created an
industry -- a lobbying interest – and it is dedicated to perpetuating
police militarization.
In 2011, an armed team
of federal agents raided the floor of the Gibson guitar factory in
Nashville, Tenn. The raid made national headlines and picked up
traction in the Tea Party movement, largely because it had been
conducted to enforce the Lacey Act, an obscure environmental law.
A SWAT team from the
Department of Education conducted a morning raid of what they thought
was the home of a woman who was suspected of defrauding federal student
loan programs. Is this the sort of crime usually associated with a SWAT
action? Oh, and they also got the wrong house -- the suspect had
moved out months earlier.
Our Fourth Amendment is
VIOLATED; We must take action immediately.
If we wait until the next presidential election, it may be too late to
prevent a “permanent” POLICE STATE. Your fax to Congress is
urgently needed!
Please let your
Congress know of your passion for freedom and privacy!
Sincerely,
Conservative-Daily
P. S. Now police
have been issued license plate scanners. They can automatically scan
license plates. Probable cause? “They don’t need no stinking
probable cause!
For once we agree with
the ACLU when they say: “This is a way to track all Americans all the
time, regardless of whether they’re accused of any wrongdoing.”
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