this is here and now with the full degree of its installation only a matter of time;
Remember, the police state does not discriminate.
At some point, once the government has been given the power to do
whatever it wants—the Constitution be damned—it will not matter whether
you’re an illegal immigrant or a citizen by birth, a law-breaker or
someone who marches in lockstep with the government’s dictates.
Government jails will detain you just as easily whether you’ve obeyed
every law or broken a dozen. And government agents will treat you like a
suspect, whether or not you’ve done anything wrong, simply because they
have been trained to view and treat everyone like potential criminals.
Eventually, all that will matter is whether some government
agent—poorly trained, utterly ignorant of the Constitution, way too
hyped up on the power of their badges, and authorized to detain, search,
interrogate, threaten and generally harass anyone they see fit—chooses
to single you out for special treatment.
We’ve been having this same debate about the perils of government
overreach for the past 50-plus years, and still we don’t seem to learn,
or if we learn, we learn too late.
All of the excessive, abusive tactics employed by the government
today—warrantless surveillance, stop and frisk searches, SWAT team
raids, roadside strip searches, asset forfeiture schemes, private
prisons, indefinite detention, militarized police, etc.—started out as a
seemingly well-meaning plan to address some problem in society that
needed a little extra help.
Be careful what you wish for: you will get more than you bargained for, especially when the government’s involved.....
You can’t have it both ways.
You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state.
You can’t claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship.
You can’t expect to have your rights respected if you allow the
government to treat whomever it pleases with disrespect and an utter
disregard for the rule of law.
.....https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/06/john-w-whitehead/the-jackboots-are-coming-mass-arrests-power-grabs-and-the-politics-of-fear/
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