How do you define a police state? Once we lose any part of freedom, we lose all freedom.
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Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither
Benjamin Franklin
What will you do now or will you look back when it is too late:
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn’t a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
Martin Niemöller
We read the consequences of inaction in the past and see history repeating itself. Will this be the next addition to Pastor Niemöller’s warning?
When they came for the patriots,
I remained silent;
I wasn’t a patriot.
David DeGerolamo
The prohibition on public recording of public behavior of police and courts is a serious impediment to acquisition of documentary evidence in cases of abuse or other criminal activity by ‘public servants’.
A question we should address is how to prevent confiscation and destruction of that evidence to ensure its availability.
Consider replacement of personal voice and video recorders with wireless web-camera technology, where the receiver and recorder are located and secured ‘elsewhere’.
This would ensure that evidence of wrongdoing by officers of the State survives the encounter with force.
Following is the best example and description of the police state, which the US has become.
During the past forty years, the US has forcibly separated more than fifty-million children from more than thirty-million fathers, mostly in response to divorce initiated by mothers. The fathers are forced under penalty of imprisonment to pay excessive orders for child support with which approximately one-half are or have been unable to comply. The child support orders typically exceed cost of raising a child by a multiple of three or four and what fathers should be paying by a multiple of six or eight, as the mothers should be expected to contribute something but don’t.
Excessive orders are made by courts because states receive approximately one dollar of federal subsidies for every dollar transferred from fathers to mothers (in compliance with laws like TANF and VAWA, etc…). Approximately one-half of all children forcibly separated never see their fathers again. Most of the remaining are only allowed to see them a few days a month. A more draconian and oppressive and tyrannical regime cannot be imagined.
Approximately two-million fathers have been jailed during the past forty years for inability to comply with the orders and approximately 250,000 have killed themselves in response to these developments against which they are helpless. Thomas Ball recently self-immolated on the steps of a courthouse in a small town in New Hampshire in response to the government’s excessive imposition on him, as it denied him access to his children and kept rotating him in and out of jail because he could not pay.
The Bradley Amendment prevents any legal recourse, as it prevents downward modification of an order for any reason. Fathers are routinely denied access to their children because of false allegations of domestic violence and child abuse encouraged by states and the federal government under the Violence Against Women Act, which basically allows any woman (including mothers) to make false allegations against any man (including fathers) with impunity and with no burden of proof or due process. Basically, the government breaks fathers and then punishes them for being broken.
Denial of children access to their parents is parental alienation, which is child abuse, and is facilitated on a vast scale by governments. Child support is CHILD TRAFFICKING and CHILD ABUSE and SLAVERY for fathers. It encourages mothers and governments to snatch children and hold them hostage for ransom in violation of the Constitution and civil rights of fathers. That is a fascist and oppressive and tyrannical police state if there ever was one.
Correction: The USA IS a police state. It became one a long time ago but most were acting like frogs in a pot of cold water not realising the heat had already been turned up and it was only a matter of time….
The time has come…now what are you going to do about it???