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Reading The Road Map To A Police State
Submitted by Aaron Tao via Ludwig von Mises Institute,
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces, by Radley Balko, PublicAffairs, 2013
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." —Charles de Montesquieu
If there was any silver lining to the horrifying events that took place in Ferguson, Missouri which riled the month of August, it has finally brought the issue of police militarization to the forefront. As outrageous as the police shooting death of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown was, the brutal law enforcement response in the form of running roughshod over the First Amendment and resorting to quasi-martial law to mostly peaceful protests by local residents and activists was worse. To many observers, what took place in a Midwest suburb was indistinguishable from scenes out of occupied Iraq.
How did this happen? For an answer, the writings of investigative journalist Radley Balko are an invaluable resource. Perhaps more than any other person, Balko has reported substantially on police militarization and injustice across the country for years.
The full details can be found in his book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces . This important book, which was recently released in its paperback edition, could not have arrived at a better time. Despite going into an intellectually rigorous analysis of law, politics, and history, Balko has a gift for storytelling, which highlights many heartbreaking stories and makes Rise of the Warrior Cop an accessible and gripping read.
In the introduction, Balko begins with the provocative question:
How did we evolve from a country whose founding statesmen were adamant about the dangers of armed, standing government forces — a country that enshrined the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights and revered and protected the age-old notion that the home is a place of privacy and sanctuary — to a country where it has become acceptable for armed government agents dressed in battle garb to storm private homes in the middle of the night — not to apprehend violent fugitives or thwart terrorist attacks, but to enforce laws against nonviolent, consensual activities?
In the first chapter, Balko traces classical history and its lessons on America’s Founders as well their own experiences under British rule. As students of the Enlightenment, they were familiar with how the Roman Republic was overthrown by ambitious military leaders and how the Praetorian Guard in the Empire era, which not only acted as bodyguards for the emperor but also took on many policing roles as well, was responsible for much political intrigue and instability. In the lead-up to the American Revolution, British authorities used the hated writs of assistance to enforce tax laws and to crackdown on contraband in the colonies. This type of general warrant allowed for authorities to “search broad groups of people, for evidence of any number of crimes, sometimes over long stretches of time.” As bad as they were, Balko noted that in contrast to what police can do today, the writs of assistance could not be exercised at night and they required a knock-and-announcement before entry into a private home. Finally, it was the deployment of British soldiers to enforce the law that brought long-simmering tensions to a boil. After the Revolutionary War, with these abuses still fresh on their minds, the Founders framed and ratified a Constitution with a Bill of Rights.
The Fourth Amendment, in particular, was written explicitly to prohibit general warrants and to reinforce the Castle Doctrine, an even older principle carried over from the British common law that can be traced back to antiquity. The Castle Doctrine simply reinforces the timeless idea that "a man’s home is his castle." As explained by Balko:
Implicit in the sentiment is not only the right to repel criminal intruders but also the idea that the state is permitted to violate the home's sanctity only under limited circumstances, only as a last resort, and only under conditions that protect the threshold from unnecessary violence. Thus, before entering without permission, government agents must knock, announce and identify themselves, state their purpose, and give the occupants the opportunity to let them in peacefully. … The announcement requirement under English law was not a formality, as it has become in police raids today. It was elemental. Its purpose was to give the homeowner the opportunity to avoid violence, distress, and the destruction of his property.
Balko also goes into interesting detail regarding the Third Amendment, the "runt piglet of the Bill of Rights," which contains the seemingly antiquated provision that prohibits the quartering of soldiers in private homes. The case law pertaining to the amendment is scant but Balko asks us to consider why the Founders placed such an importance on it. Read in light of the Castle Doctrine, it makes sense that those who revere the principle that "a man’s home is his castle" would not tolerate their homes being occupied by soldiers. But most importantly, "the amendment was a placeholder for the broader aversion to a standing army. … It represented a long-standing, deeply ingrained resistance to armies patrolling American streets and policing American communities."
Until the Civil War and Reconstruction, active duty troops were rarely if ever used for domestic law enforcement. In the early American republic, law enforcement was left mostly in private hands. Close-knit communities with shared values relied mostly on social stigma and shaming to maintain order. Professional full-time prosecutors didn’t exist, and it fell upon crime victims themselves to initiate the charges before a grand jury, a panel of private citizens who had the power to indict. The citizen militia was called out for only the worst cases that required force. But as urbanization advanced and an increasingly diverse population grew, it brought the need for changes.
One particularly interesting historical fact noted by Balko is that after the fall of Rome, centralized metropolitan police forces were not to be formed for almost another two millennia. In places that developed strong civil liberties traditions such as England and the American republic, people remained suspicious of standing armies, martial law, and powerful executives. In the United States, the New York Police Department (NYPD) was not formed until 1845. Modeled after London’s famous "bobbies," political leaders had to wage major public relations campaigns to win over the trust of citizens. Major efforts were taken to distinguish the police from soldiers, and to ensure they were responsive to elected officials and the public. But in many jurisdictions, the police became a little too responsive to politicians, acted as corrupt henchmen for anyone who won office, and oppressed minorities and outsiders. The issue of police corruption was serious enough that it became a plank in the progressive movement by the early twentieth century. Reformers introduced the concept of professionalism which "transformed the job of police officer from a perk of patronage to a formal profession with its own standards, specialized knowledge, and higher personnel standards and entry requirements." Although it helped address the problem of corruption, this new policy began to subtly separate the police from the communities they supposedly served and protected.
The meat of Balko’s story focusing on police militarization began in the 1960s. During this time, the civil rights, antiwar, and counterculture movements became very active while the overall crime rates soared. As the liberal Warren Court expanded the rights of the accused in a number of notable rulings, the law-and-order types became greatly alarmed that society was falling apart. As his critics on the right continued their attacks that he was "soft" on crime, President Lyndon B. Johnson oversaw the creation of two government institutions to fight crime that would have huge future ramifications:
- the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD), which eventually would become the modern Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the leading government agency fighting the War on Drugs.
- the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), to "stream the federal funding, equipment, and technology to state and local law enforcement agencies."
This would go on to set a large precedent for future programs like Byrne grants and the Pentagon’s 1033 program as "Johnson’s successors would quickly discover that introducing a funding spigot like LEAA, then threatening to pull it away, was an effective way to persuade local police agencies to adopt their preferred polices."
The modern War on Drugs would officially begin under President Richard Nixon after winning on a law-and-order campaign and appealing to the “Silent Majority.” The focus of the Nixon’s administration’s anticrime effort would be on drugs, which they thought was the common denominator among racial minorities, the counterculture, and the antiwar movement that alienated “ignored America.” The Nixonites pushed for massive funding for the BNDD and LEAA, demanded no-knock warrants for federal drug agents, and even temporarily shutdown the U.S-Mexican border in Operation Intercept. In 1969, the first SWAT raid was carried out in Los Angeles against the Black Panthers. Despite the raid being a disaster "practically, logistically, and tactically," it was a major success in public relations and SWAT teams would spread to nearly every city in America in the following decades. Despite being originally designed for emergency situations where violence was needed to end violence such as bank robberies and hostage scenarios, mission creep was unavoidable and SWAT teams would go on to be used for everything from breaking up neighborhood poker games, enforcing underage drinking laws, and performing regulatory inspections, as meticulously documented by Balko. Fast forward to modern day, it is now estimated that SWAT raids occur up to 40,000 times per year across the United States.
This can be traced back to the Reagan administration when SWAT tactics began to be increasingly used in fighting the drug war. Hardliners in his administration saw a "biblical struggle between good and evil, and in the process turn[ed] the country’s drug cops into holy soldiers." Noting the inconsistent reverence supposed limited government conservatives have for Reagan, Balko had this to say:
Conservatives had always held the somewhat contradictory position that government can’t be trusted in any area of society except when it comes to the power to arrest, detain, imprison, and execute people. But Reagan didn't dance around the contradiction, he embraced it. He blamed crime on big government — and in the same breath demanded that the government be given significantly more power to fight it.
Under Reagan, the FBI was brought into enforcing drug laws, health professionals who favored treatment for drug abusers were purged from the bureaucracy, and sweeping new policies such as civil asset forfeiture (the legal theory that property itself can be guilty of a crime and be seized without the owner even being charged) were embraced. Perhaps the most radical action was that Reagan sought to amend the Posse Comitatus Act and bring the military into the Drug War.
Balko notes that:
By the end of the 1980s, joint task forces brought together police officers and soldiers for drug interdiction. National Guard helicopters and U-2 spy planes flew the California skies in search of marijuana plants. When suspects were identified, battle-clad troops from the National Guard, the DEA and other federal and local law enforcement agencies would swoop in to eradicate the plants and capture the people growing them.
After Reagan was succeeded by Vice President George H.W. Bush, the same course continued. Bush Sr. appointed hardliner Bill Bennnet (who once called for beheading drug dealers on Larry King live and even "urged children to turn in their friends who used drugs to the police") as drug czar and ramped up rhetoric that the drug war was a moral crusade between good and evil. Drug treatment programs were stripped of funding, while additional cash flowed into law enforcement and new prison construction. Perhaps the most significant were the Byrne grants that were created in a 1988 crime bill which would send billions in federal cash to police departments over the next twenty-five years and allow "the White House another way to impose its crime policy on local law enforcement." But in Balko’s view, the program's most harmful legacy was the "creation of hundreds of regional and multijurisdictional narcotics task forces" that were often unaccountable and financially rewarded for making many busts in the following decades.
Reformers and activists hoped the election of Bill Clinton would bring changes to the War on Drugs but sadly, that would not be the case. Instead, Clinton "encouraged paramilitary raids against low-level offenders — even users" and cracked down hard on medical marijuana facilities in order to send a political message despite legalization in a number of states. In addition, the Bryne grants picked up steam as they incentivized "police departments across the country to prioritize drug crimes over other investigations." Perversely, the funds were awarded based on the "number of overall arrests, the number of warrants served, or the number of drug seizures." As a result, actually reducing crime was not favored and instead, grants were given to police departments that were making lots of seizures regardless of size and easy arrests (e.g., low level drug offenders).
During this time, the Supreme Court continued to whittle away the Fourth Amendment and further militarization was promoted through the creation of infamous 1033 program as relationships between the federal government and local police departments deepened. High-profile tragedies in the 1990s involving heavily militarized law enforcement such as Ruby Ridge and the Waco Siege served mostly as partisan fodder as the right temporarily became critics only to fall silent when George W. Bush became President.
Bush Jr. followed the moral crusade script and continued the paramilitary raids against medical marijuana facilities and patients despite some initial lip service to federalism. After the September 11th terrorist attacks, drug warriors did not fail to waste a good crisis and used the opportunity to attempt to link the new fear of terrorism to drug use. In addition, the new War on Terror created another "ratchet effect" that ballooned an already-growing National Security State and furthered militarized the police. Thanks to generous anti-terrorism grants from the Department of Homeland Security which dwarfed even the 1033 program, police departments across the country upgraded their arsenals with automatic weapons, drones, armored vehicles, and other military equipment. But since terrorist attacks are incredibly rare, police used their new gear for drug raids instead. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court continued its siege on the Castle Doctrine and the Fourth Amendment with its decisions in United States v. Banks and Hudson v. Michigan.
Many people desiring "hope and change" put their faith in Barack Obama for a drug war détente and an overall repudiation of the Bush policies, but as with what happened with Clinton, they were in for a very bitter disappointment. Obama expanded the trend of police militarization by pouring a record $2 billion into the Byrne grants. This was part of his 2009 economic stimulus package, overseeing "more federal raids on marijuana dispensaries in four years than George W. Bush had presided in over eight," promoting greater forfeiture takings by the Justice Department, and continuing to give away hundreds of millions in federal surplus military equipment to local and state police departments.
Near the end of the book, Balko offers a number of proposed reforms to rollback police militarization and restore the workings of a free society. These ideas include the practical as well as politically unattainable, but at very least, provide a working road map:
- Scaling back and ending the War on Drugs.
- Halting SWAT mission creep such as prohibiting their use by regulatory agencies.
- Increasing transparency such as detailed warrant tracking and requiring the use of body cameras on raids where the videos could then be made public upon request.
- Embracing authentic community policing by “taking cops out of patrol cars to walk beats and become a part of the communities they serve” to rebuild trust among the people they serve.
- Changing police culture by moving away from “us versus them” combat mindset and toward emphasizing counseling and dispute resolutions for resolving conflict in routine problems.
- Increasing accountability and ensuring police are not above the law by imposing stronger liability on officers who make egregious errors (this proposal would most likely be fought tooth-and-nail by police unions).
Even as more people awaken to the realities of a growing police state, the challenges to restoring a free society are vast and likely to be resisted every inch of the way by entrenched interests. As Abigail Hall and Christopher Coyne pointed out in their political-economic analysis of police militarization in the Spring 2013 issue of The Independent Review:
Government agencies’ inherent tendency is to expand beyond their designers’ initial aims and goals. Special-interest groups exacerbate this problem by seeking to expand their power and influence. The onset of crises — whether real or manufactured — begins a long, far-reaching process that erodes the already imperfect constraints on the government’s power … citizens must become skeptical of the possibility of establishing permanent constraints on government power. This skepticism ultimately requires recognition and appreciation of the realities of government power and a rejection of government action as a solution to the perceived crises.
After reading through Rise of the Warrior Cop, if there be a single lesson we should grasp, it is that police militarization and the War on Drugs are intimately tied. The former cannot be reversed unless the latter is ended. Thanks to the War on Drugs, the Castle Doctrine crumbled, the United States ended up with the largest incarcerated population in world history, and the Officer Friendlies of yesteryear have been replaced by a de-facto standing army clothed like Darth Vader.
There is a wide range of opinions among commentators today on what extent the United States is becoming/is a police state. In Balko’s conclusion, "it would be foolish to wait until it becomes one to get concerned." If you were at all disturbed by the events in Ferguson or wondering why your local police department has an armored vehicle with a belt-fed, turreted .50 caliber machine gun, you owe it to yourself to read this book.
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Ebola will take care of the enforcers.
Ebola will take care of the enforcers.
You're right P it will take care of "the enforcers" because they will have delivered into their system the refined antibodies that John and Jane "Q" won't have in there own, and when the State wants to get rid of them to thin the herd some more, they will introduce a strain that will knock down the "brown shirts" immune system when "the decider(s)" decide it's time for them to go as well...
If you want to know how a true psychopath thinks just get a load of this!...
Quite frankly just given what we've already done in the Middle East over the past decade and now Africa and Eastern Ukraine without even a "1 million" plus showing up at least once in that timeframe in D.C. to shut it down and to show our resounding resentment at the Apocalypse our government is creating around the globe, I'd say I won't be shedding too many tears for us when we start bleeding out of our eyeballs and anus' in the near future!
Antigenic sin will ensure they get wiped out in the 2nd wave of Ebola.
But, seeing that shit flows downhill, who will take care of Obola and his puppet ilk?
It's called Obedience to the Unenforceable. The population during the first 60 or so years of the republic was for the most part, guided by a moral and just internal compass. They knew what was right and wrong personal behavior based on the last two thousand years of tradition. They believed in the idea that the laws of man were secondary to the natural law. They didn't want a king to treat them as subjugated surfs.
Fast forward to today when the sheeple are swimming in moral relativism, where no one is to judge another and there is nothing such as personal restraint. Now a sense of entitlement to everyone else's labors, and victimhood give people the excuse to not listen to their own moral compass. That compass is there in everyone but is largely obscured by self indulgence and entitlement.
The rise of the police state is cheered on by those who don't want to be molested by those who would do them harm. They are donning their orange jumpsuits without even knowing it. For those in MO protesting the clear abuses by the police, what restraint would they show without the black guns pointed at them. I assure you, none.
Until we return to the ideas and state of mind of the founding generation and throw off the shackles of post modern man, the sheeple will demand to protected by the military, scratch that, police. They will accept their shackles in exchange for protection. All our clamoring will be in vain.
the situation has gotten so bad that i believe the only way to restore trust in the law is to disarm the police.
seriously- have a two tiered system where the bulk of the police are armed at best with radios. you know-
protect and serve? community relations. every officer would have to serve a couple of years in that capqacity
before moving on up to being fully armed. otherwise, i think the police state is here and there is no going back.
Much of what we see today is from Americans slowly giving up their freedoms as they empowered the government to do more in protecting America from terrorist. Will terrorists kill innocent civilians in the years to come? Of course. They did so more than 100 years ago, when they were called anarchists—and a responsible nation-state must take reasonable measures to protect its citizens. But there is no way to completely eliminate terrorism.
The challenge that confronts us is how we will live with that threat. We have created an economy of fear, an industry of fear, a national psychology of fear. Al Qaeda could never have achieved that on its own. We have inflicted it on ourselves. the article below delves deeper into how we have built a massive and expensive industry to strip us of our liberties because of fear.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-terrorist-under-every-bed.html
I don't understand the sympathetic attitude of ZH towards the 2 Ferguson area shooting victims. Both of them were proven thugs caught in the act of committing a crime, yet this website is anti-Trayvon who was clearly innocent. It's like this site is a psy-ops or something.
We just want to be left alone and not fucked with......and I don't think the thugs with badges are down with That......that's why I have that attitude.
I think the difference is who did the shooting. Trayvon was shot by a private thug. Freguson guy was shot by a cop. ZH is all in favor of private thugs, so long as they are not Joos.
Trayvon was a thug too, and had a bullet coming to him.
Bullshit it was Death by Misadventure.
Try Expanding Your mind dip shit.
Late ADD: Sorry, Zimmerman and Trevon Martin are simple men or simple Humans, they played their hands, they will forever pay the price in Political USA, George more than Trevon, Trevon sought out bigness, sought revenge and power, and there it ends... Death by Misadventure.
loose ciggies on the streets of new york, a toy gun in walmart, reaching for a wallet in a gas station ..... and those are just the ones caught on camera. see the dailey show on trying to discover stats on police killing of civilians. psyops? fergeson and trayvon were purposely selected for the most distorted reactions from the public byt the likes of jarrett and holders' handlers....zh'ers and the rest of the world just reacting with their limited myopic vision of the world and each other. disarm the po-po and stop sending them to isreal for training.
Seasmoke & LetThemEatRand point out different thing...
As Humans we are bound to have different Opinions.
Damn, we can not like marijuana laws, people being imprisoned by weird drug laws.... while Millions of Americans use Marijuana.
Black men get ruined for life by Systematic Prosecution for lifestyle choices... for nonviolent crimes and get put in Private Corporate Prisons... to work for pennies for a corporation.
No Story here!!!!
there was some brutality in the protests like the one obvious power trip cop, but otherwise I am not sympathetic towards thugs who had what was coming to them. Armchair analysts not the ones to listen to, lamenting ex post facto, and obviously Brown had been up to no good earlier that day. And obviously even more important is how the statist PC, white guilt media ignores the war zone areas of Chicago of black on black and gives all attention conceivable to what fits their agenda, like Ferguson. Thanks to regulations and the New Deal and inflation, South Chicago is no longer a viable industrial powerhouse but in many ways just an area of people placated with food stamps and freebies, and the Left uses it for quid pro quo purposes for votes.
"Thanks to regulations and the New Deal and inflation, South Chicago is no longer a viable industrial powerhouse ..."
Yes, has nothing to do with offshoring for oligarch gain. Funny how black people have so much power to affect our ecomony in the ZH/Drudge lens.
With the aid of the state. That is the issue. There are always bad actors seeking to get an illegitimate edge, and the way to minimize/root out these corrupt tactics is not to legitimize a system of theft and coercion (the state) but to have a true free market ideology adhered to, predicated on the non-aggression principle.
If certain jobs just don't merit a certain wage anymore, then that is just competition and capitalism. Nobody is entitled to anything other than what the market will bear (which isn't to say I don't have a moral obligation to help out a brother in need; this is different than robbing Peter to pay Paul, though, telling Peter that Paul needs the help and you will be so kind as to be the conduit to doing it).
America is not a great place to do business anymore. Taxes and regulations, and only the big entrenched firms that can handle compliance costs benefit because they get artificial pricing power as would- be SME competitors can't cut into the big firms' margins due to regulations. This leads to less supply, higher prices, and less diversity of supply/quality of supply, and along with inflation are the reasons why prices go up.
One thing to remember is that wages and conditions leftists here would have us think unconscionable to tolerate are actually huge steps up for people in third world countries in many cases, and if there are laws against companies that disallow their plants abroad like this, many times those people who at least had a job turn to prostitution and other nefarious activity to subsist.Same goes for minimum wage; some young man could start on the ladder for $5/hr doing something mundane and learn responsibility instead of gangs and nefarious activity, but min wage prices him out and he misses out on an invaluable opportunity, and this is explanations of the detriment, but again, the way underlying principle is that someone should be able to sell their labor for whatever they voluntarily will consent to. But that is the thing, in America as long as 'intentions are good' do-gooderism lives and who cares the consequences. Stand for nothing, fall for anything. American exceptionalism used to be built on humility and a work ethos; now it is political and conjuring 'demand' for USD via petrodollar MIC enforcement, because demand for dollars predicated on an intrinsic story like a strong US economy sure ain't happening.
The article starts with the assumption that a police officer who is punched in the face, has a giant thug wrestle him for his gun, and who is being bull-rushed has no 'right' to defend himself. I am all for body cams in 'mixed' neighborhoods. Not EVERY black teen is an 'innocent good kid' -- just as not EVERY cop is a homicidal ghetto blaster. We have seen that witnesses are useless. The body cams should make it easier to accept that some black kids got what they deserve, and it should let us get the Psycho Cops off the streets. The REAL battle is between the black leaders (who are empowered by stirring up racial hatred) and the police department and judges who let the Psycho Cops go unpunished.
".. who was clearly innocent". So you were there? No? Then how do you KNOW this? Also, ZH is not a hive. Don't make blanket generalizations about what a website, which is composed of many individuals, believes.
Hahahaha. ZH is not a hive. Funny. Anyone who disagrees with the basic premise is attacked. Seems pretty hivey to me.
His name was Fonzannoon.
"Anyone who disagrees with the basic premise is attacked"
Who gives a fuck about the "basic premise" whatever that is. I'm here to speak my mind and to hear what others have to say. That's my basic premise. Go ahead and attack it. See what happens.
LTER is essentially correct if you go by the up down voting thing but the whole fight club premise seems to be somewhat wanting these days when it comes to reasoned arguments, there are the few worthy exchanges but a lot more rather loose boot fuck attempts ........ just sayin'
actually, if you're referring to the store video as 'proof' of theft; the video is actually inconclusive. they -- teenager and cashier -- apparently had a little tiff, but it's not clear it involved theft.
I come from a VERY long tradition of making excuses to authority.......
"Dear Father
The astonishment with which I met, in the perusal of you letter, induces me to write to you immediatly. I find in your letter, that I am accused of neglecting my studies, and also of disorder, both of which charges, I deny, and can prove at any time to be false, by those to whom I recite and also by my whole class." But only to real authority. Never tyrants. Esse Quam Videri.John Michael Greer has a very very good perspective on this. Highly recommend reading them.
Great Writer.
Dark Age America: The Hour of the Knife
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2014/10/dark-age-america-hour-of-...
The previous lead up.
Dark Age America: The Collapse of Political Complexity
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2014/10/dark-age-america-collapse...
There was an interesting comment on JMG's latest thread:
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2014/10/dark-age-america-hour-of-...
Weapons technology shape societies .
"Colt made all men equal"
"Kalashnikov made all men free"
"Rogue Swans made all free men lucky"
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/09/rogue-swan-weapons.html
"Everything that is forbidden is compulsory "
Catch 22.5
We have this notion that all Americans want to be free. I don't think that is true. It may be true that they want to be free so long as it costs them nothing and so long as those who think differently are not free to express themselves. Few understand freedom or have any interest in it. The media will demonize it as a "white" idea.
'none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free' -Goethe
I think the major themes will continue to be moral, intellectual, and financial bankruptcy, and probably in that order although all are very much intertwined
Good point. This is what has changed in 200 years of American history. The original colonists had taken great risks and invested heavily in their independence long before the war for independence even happened. There were very strong genetic and cultural foundations for a population to live as individuals rather than as dependents on a central state. As the state has grown over the centuries, however, the people living here have grown accustomed to allowing the state to take on further and further areas of responsibility. Few now have the genuine inclination to live without the easy lifestyle that has taken over the USA (in which there is no self-responsibility or genuine risk of ruin required). The people who started the country worked their asses off to create their own lives (partly at the expense of the natives, but that's another story). People today can, when they choose, do nothing and be given a life of relative comfort by historical standards. Those who would prefer freedom sadly no longer have another continent to run to.
Well put Sofa, with Rights come Responsibilities. I don't plug many things around here, but Jack Spirko articulated it very nicely on his podcast. I think it should be required listening in our schools (if anybody would still send their kids there). It is titled "13 Interesting Facts About Liberty"
http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/episode-653-thirteen-intersting-facts-...
What changed, is that we foolishly gave women the vote. That was what made the income tax and prohibition possible, and in direct consequence, the War on Drugs and the federal welfare state.
You have apparently not had the company of the right women in your life.
Orwell did not appreciate the beauty of incompetence .
See
https://www.academia.edu/8843907/A_Tale_of_Two_Armadas
Only in modern times have the Delian League been surpassed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delian_League
Nor the laws of Nature.
E.g. Entropy and Complexity Theory, Compounding in a finite world with finite resources, and non-renewable carbon fuels.
Our present Overlords also seem to have missed these, as they have used both Huxley and Orwell as models and guidebooks, rather than admonitions and warnings.
In the long run... Nature always wins. Vain, Arrogant, Puny Man!
Let's get this straight, the gentle giant was shot because he engaged in furtive activity that alerted a patrolman. After attempting to defeat a lawful arrest, gentle giant attacked the patrolman, first one of you that wants to get into a fight with some doped up ghetto buck step up or shut up. The patrolman was justified in stopping the droped aggressive ghetto buck with deadly force, not warning shots and certainly not trying to "wound" him. The riots that followed were built on a lie that did get all the way around the world and soaked in for four days before the truth got its pants on. Of course the ghetto dwellers are as justified for looting and rioting as the Paliscum and other muzz are justified in targeting civilians cause it's their only recourse. The military style containment that was deployed in response is nothing new when dealing with out of control uncivilized animals.
Had me reading your diatribe until I hit ghetto buck.
You're a fuckhead of the worst kind - afraid to type Nigger. Go ahead, probably say it often. N I G G E R. There. Now, don't you feel better ?
Nossle = Shit for brains.
Great reply POOFEATER, let me guess, you never used the word nigger and you have black friends.
Nobody will mourn one less welfare check collector who robs convenience stores and attacks cop
Or at least, that's how it SHOULD be
This doesn't make sense. He didn't rob a convenience store, at least as far as the stores owner is concerned, and a video to prove he paid. And no one seems to know why the fight in the police car or even for sure if there was a fight.
Too many questions. Not enough answers.
The conditioning of the American public was along 'humanitarian' and 'politically correct' lines of thinking. That brainwashing set the foundation for our countries population to erode and water down by foreigners and illegals who dont understand what being American is, but want to exploit the benefits our country. It's the humanitarian effort with Ebola that will cover for its ' introduction' into our country. It's this horseshit altruistic mindset that will bring our country down, as fema guys with guns come for folks on the nsa 's list of problematic citizens.
Obama will let even suspected Ebola patients in to help treat the disease. Then, people casually associated with those infected show symptoms. If enough panic sets in, they can start infecting select targets or just round em up on a bs Ebola pretext
What was Mr. Brown being arrested for?
Edit: This question was for NOZZLE. Clicked on the wrong reply button I guess.
Michael Brown, if that is the Mr. Brown you are referring to, was not been arrested. According to news reports based on police filings, Michael Brown and his unnamed friend were walking down the center of a busy residential street. The police officer was driving thru and ordered them off the middle of the road. For some unexplained reason, the patrolman decided to stop his patrol car and speak with Michael Brown and his friend.
"For some unexplained reason..."
That's my point. Shouldn't there be a police report explaining this... and other questions or do they not do that any more? By now everything should be fully explained. Yet, We still wonder what he was lawfully arrested for and why the fight (if any) in the police car. Police reporrts are supposed to be public. No lawyer or judge should be able to hide or otherwise make this report unavailable due to a possible court trial.
Police have been on a rampage lately killing pets and people. There is way more to this story than is being told. As usual the 'just us' system and the media are quiet and waiting for this to go down the american memory hole. It works nearly every time.And worse many are just imagining what happened and telling it as though it were true.
I have seen many people of all colors walking down the middle of the street with police passing and doing nothing. As this officer did nothing to Mr. Browns friend for doing the same it is highly suspicious. Maybe Mr. Brown was more "mouthy", who knows? Again, thats the point. Everyone has the Sargeant Shultz "I knows nothing" attitude.
No one "of any color" attacks or fights a police officer for nothing. Something went on and no one's telling. Something we will never know unless we stay focused and persistent... which is doubtful because of the racial aspects of the case and the fact that many don't really care so long as it is someone else.
How much of the 'War on Drugs' is eliminating competition to the unofficially/officially sanctioned drug channels?
You can't deny Air America's role during Vietnam, Iran-Conttra or the fact that the Taliban nearly eliminated opium production in 2000 and now after the US has been in Afghanistan for 12 years the US is in the middle of a heroin plague. We've also cracked down on prescription abuse - Oxy in particulae, driving consumers over to a now widely available heroin supply.....
Think of it all as SOMA but instead of the gov providing it, users are paying for it themselves - and others profitting immensely.
If there is a transportation route from a drug-producing country involving military aircraft, drugs will be onboard at least part of the time, no matter what. It is a question of availability, potential profit, and bribes to look the other way. Money, drugs, and women are usually among the spoils of war. Moar War, Moar Heroin. After all, the U$A is winning the wars in the mountains of the far east, just as the Russians before them. Right?
worth reading:
"The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia"
by Alfred W. McCoy
documents the history of heroin in the Viet Nam war.
CynicalSkeptic - I agree. The hypocricy is astounding. The cycle of governments seems to lead to taxing morality itself. A very ugly version of this is "family law" and other laws of under "gender equality".
There was a woman that made a living suing companies for sexual harrassment. I had the misfortune of hiring this predator in NH. When she came in to me one day with blouse unbuttoned and sat on my desk I said "I do not sleep with employees." After that she would show up late consistently until I fired her then she sued me.
I did not have a laywer but found a loophole to transfer the case to Superior Court as the State Commission was pushing me to settle or it was a $10,000 fine (read tax) plus damages.
Me and my business partner in the first hearing by Judge Brown of Rockingham county was told "You gentlemen should know that without a lawyer you are likely to lose this case." He recused himself as he had worked on the State commission. Boy was he right. He assigned the case to a female judge which long story short found a way to default the case on me. $30,000 judgement! I moved to Florida because I will never pay this because of the sheer injustice of it. Plus the five years this went on which affected employee performance. I now knew what some good souls in the legal field were warning about in the 90's about "activist judges".
The State also tacked on "Gender Bias" charge which was dropped because I had exactly five male and five female employees.
A couple of learning lessons: If your in the upper middle class, making it toward breaking gravity and becoming wealthy, hire the damn attorney like wealthy people do. When government can't collect from the wealthy they go toward the middle class and use the lower class as enforcers alongside police as tax collectors. It isn't an intentional assault on the middle class but the outcome is the same, a bankrupt state and you getting eaten for lunch.
NH went bankrupt in 2011. Pensions of enforcers were cut. There was so much injustice I considered very mean things but history taught me these things always collapse. Gender and family law tax policy destroys the system faster than any other tax policy was my conclusion and I was correct. So you enforcers as cops that want to have longer term pensions and have a modicum of intelligence should be asking hard questions as to how your city or state is raising revenues for YOUR own long-term prosperity or otherwise, the only benefit you get by playing along is short-term as the aligator just eats you last. It sure isn't going to come out of the beaurcrats ass as it all falls apart.
As I saw the police state forming in NH moved to Sanford Maine in 2004 just over border. I did not want my taxes supporting that shit. It was a breath of fresh air. Didn't like the state income tax but it sure was prefferable to a police state.
When the hard time hit in 2008 and I saw the city raise revenue in non-destructive ways and cut police, I stepped up and helped them with patrol route software. It was an example of how it was supposed to work. But as for NH, I'll consider going back maybe in ten years as they are beginning to change policy but implementation takes real time.
America has become nothing special to live in which is a real shame. It was never perfect but us now on our way to being Soviets gives me a real question as to live in other lawless societies that are just cheaper to live in. But as i have decided to stay for now the best advice I can if you want to keep some wealth from taxation is use a good lawyer and see a CPA for tax sheltering advice. If 17% taxation rate of Warren Buffett is good enough for the government for him then spend time learning to do the same. If you bend the laws you get a slap on the wrist far less than attempting to play by all the the endless rules for taxes. $100k+ learning lessons but my advice paid at a steep price is free.
http://politicalvelcraft.org/2012/08/02/hsbc-helped-rothschild-cia-mossa...
They have been running this for a long time.
"David Sassoon a Baghdadi Jew and Jewish banker of David Sassoon & Co., with branches in China, Japan and Hong Kong uses his monopoly of the opium trade in this area, on behalf of the Rothschild controlled British government, to traffic 18,956 chests of opium earning millions of dollars for the Rothschilds' and the British Royal family."
http://antimatrix.org/Convert/Books/Andrew.Carrington.Hitchcock/Synagogu...
I don't think reading books is going to put an end to or even dent the tyranny happening today. It will require amendments to be recinded, central bank abolishment, the breakup of the corporate cartels, the revitalism of the militia and with that the participation of we the people in government. Add the withdrawel from the major global trade acts and the reindustrialization of america etc.
Somehow I don't see all that happening... peacefully. IMO we have passed that point of no return. Only when / if americans again value liberty more than security will freedom bell ring again. Otherwise it's curtains for all.
The question is not how, as that is only important to history.
The question is what to do to stop and bring it to an end.
The answer is the Restoration of the Constituiional Republic, and the rule of law that springs from it.
The first step is to stop Obeying, and start Disobeying.
Stop Paying on their usurous and stolen loan-money.
Stop Obeying their criminal and morally reprehensible edicts.
Stop Playing their game. Stop voting, registering, permitting, allowing, acquiescing, etc.
Just Stop!
An American, not US subject.
I loathe the police state and militarization of same....
But Ferguson was about a 6' 4" 300 lb black guy throwing around a nonblack store clerk and then foolishly trying to put a beat down on a white cop who was armed. If Brown would do that to an armed cop then he would to that to any of us. So I'm not crying over Brown, or Ferguson, he's the new Tawana Brawley. His hands were not up in the air because he'd already got himself shot in the arm when he hurtled himself into the cop car trying to get the gun.
If this gets blacks to wake up to what Obama is doing militarizing the streets of America then Brown will have died for something positive.
Forensics is back today with evidence showing Brown's blood in the car, on the cop, and on the gun. Clearly a struggle happened. Cops do not 'fight' from inside a car so Brown must have pushed the door in as the cop tried to get out - then punched the cop inside the car and began the tussle. Since Brown was shot inside the car I would expect a blood trail to exist on the ground - with more blood wherever Brown stopped. If he ended up closer to the cop than the farthest blood drops - he must have charged the cop.
The civil servants running this US government are too incompetent to do a police state.
The real fighting Generals have been purged and the ones that are left hate this admiinstration or are too busy plotting war strategy against global warming with their rainbow troops of gay soldiers. If they can't track one guy with Ebola they can't track hundreds of millions. NSA wants you to conform by making you feel like you are surveilled 24/7.
If martial law happens then that will mean the economic disaster will have happened and the country is bankrupt and the civil servants will not be able to pay mercenaries wages. If UN mercenaries come here with IMF, NWO money then they will be facing 100 million armed Americans. They can't even handle 30,000 ISIS in Iraq right now. All they really got is bluff with those MRAPs in July 4th Parades.
That's an idealistic way to view what will happen. You must never have worked at a failing start-up before. Don't underestimate the ability of psychopaths in charge to motivate performance through outrageous levels of fear and intimidation
You're assuming people will unite and fight a common enemy for a common cause. That isn't how it happens. They'll turn on each other and save themselves first. And then look to position themselves in the best way possible to be in a safe position for them and their family during the changes
The way to get the end result you think will happen is organized militias and every kid can use weapons like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZE-EDGw2vo
There aren't enough militia members to have that much of an impact on a full scale invasion from all directions from far greater numbers of actual fighters, far more heavily armed and better trained forces. And American kids are being brainwashed into being petrified of guns by every form of traitorous scum you can imagine in their lives. Pastry gun really?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/family-in-anne-arundel-pas...
You won't be able to count on police, non-government gangs, bureaucrats, traitors, informants, plus the UN and likely the military. Most will mindlessly or gladly just follow orders. That doesn't leave you much. If you're lucky enough to have enough friends and neighbors that may fit the bill of a loose form of a militia then maybe you'll catch a break for a while
They were willing to drop abombs to end resistance here over 70 years ago. You don't think they'll do it there now?
Look at the bright side. If it gets to a worst case scenario and you choose to fight for your actual freedom, not the false freedom everyone in the US has now, then you'll have the chance to live or die for the ideals your country is supposed to represent
gwar5; Military complains under Democrats.
But the Training goes on. Military Institutions Continue without change.
But did we cancel Jungle Training School after Vietnam War Ended? Yes. Democrats hate war fighters and cancel the best schools for terrorism, guerrilla fighting, counter insurgency, jungle warfare, desert warfare... etc. Democrats will make our Military Weaker. No Doubt.
So the first step is to Identify our best Military Schools within each Military Service for Hand to hand, Guerrilla, Anti-Terrorism, Anti-Insurgent, Demolition, BUDS, SEALS, Air & Sea Rescue, Rangers, Green Berets... whatever.
edited.
Actually I originally missed your good points above.
One big Point is that a real police state will crash the economy if not already crashed. Commerce must continue apace. Like you point out might be no money for a police state when the economy is crashed.
Worth thinking about. Good Points.
Some really good reasons why the world's people and in particular Americans hate Washington D.C.
The ship has sailed for any hope of America turning back into the country it once was.
The best idea, is to gain a good skill and move to an emerging market country or to an EU nation that has a high OECD index (Scandanavia, Germany, etc)
America is FUCKED.
~DipShitMiddleClassWhiteKid
These days, the war on drugs, which played a major role in the history of militarization of the police, is now a relatively trivial factor, compared to the war on terror, which was also war based on deceit, used to advance the interests of debt slavery systems. The war on terror was kicked off by the events on 9/11/2001, as an inside job, false flag attack. Although there are plenty of parallels between the war on drugs and the war on terror, the latter both started, and has since become, several orders of magnitude worse than the war on drugs!
THE RUNAWAY FASCIST PLUTOCRACY JUGGERNAUT, WHICH WAS DUE TO THE INTERNATIONAL BANKSTERS, AS THE BIGGEST GANGSTERS, CAPTURING CONTROL OVER, AND EFFECTIVELY PRIVATIZING, THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT, REQUIRED THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FASCIST POLICE STATE, IN ORDER TO PROTECT ITSELF AND ADVANCE ITS AGENDA.
THE DEEPER PROBLEMS ARE DUE TO THE FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURE OF THE POLITICAL ECONOMY BECOMING BASED ON THE BANKSTERS' ENFORCED FRAUDS, WHICH HAVE DRIVEN THEIR DEBT SLAVERY SYSTEMS TO HAVE GENERATED NUMBERS WHICH HAVE BECOME DEBT INSANITIES, WHICH ARE NOW MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO EVER RESOLVE WITHIN THE FRAME OF REFERENCE OF THE CURRENTLY ESTABLISHED SYSTEMS.
Since money was always measurement backed by murder, because the debt controls depended upon the death controls, the privatization of the public "money" supply, under the MAD Money As Debt system, has necessarily driven that debt slavery to produce numbers which have become debt insanities, which must continue to grow at an exponential rate, or else that whole system would collapse into crazy chaos. Since the top banksters already know about that problem with their social pyramid systems as well as anyone else, they have deliberately been preparing their fascist police state, in order to attempt to have their runaway fascist plutocracy juggernaut prevail, despite that its debt insanities must eventually collapse into crazy chaos.
The current numbers, which represent those debt insanities, are surely going to provoke death insanities. The war on drugs, and similar sorts of a long history of war after war based on deceits, have all been trumped by the bogus war on terror, which has more recently become the ultimate self-fulfilling prophesy, whose purposes are to provoke more genocidal wars abroad, to back up the globalized systems of debt slavery, through regime changes in any country which attempts to resist the international banksters' systems, while simultaneously preparing for democidal martial law to be imposed within the USA, as the ways that the currently best organized gangs of criminals, which have captured control over the government, and have been using the powers of the government to systematically rob and defraud everyone else by those means, are setting up their plans for how to transition through the coming crazy collapses into chaos caused by the debt insanities driving the psychotic breakdowns of the currently established financial systems, with their desires for their fascist police state to still be able consolidate their continuing control over the people, through some sort of neo-feudal system.
The pattern of the privatization of the public "money" supply is now being repeated by the effective privatization of the public murder systems. The privatization of the public "money" supply has already been about 99% accomplished, for several decades, while the resulting debt slavery automatically grew at an exponential rate, to generate the current numbers which are mathematically impossible to ever repay, and therefore, extremely precarious numbers which are debt insanities. As the established financial systems, which are based on the enforced frauds, which were due to the best organized gang of criminals capturing control over the powers of government, for more than a Century, at an exponential rate, are reaching their breaking points, the privization of the public murder systems are being brought on-stream more and more. My current estimates, which are rough guesses, are that the public murder systems, and their related spy industries, have already become about 75% privatized (as primarily estimated on the basis of the ratios of security clearances granted to private contractors, through de facto uses of the ostensibly public powers).
I REPEAT, my current overview is that the public powers of governments to rob has been already about 99% privatized, through the financial systems' enforced frauds, while the public powers to kill to back up that robbery up have become about 75% privatized, which trend has been rapidly accelerating from more than a decade. The militarization of the police is the public face of the effective privatization of the public murder systems, whose goal is to continue to protect and advance the agenda of the privatization of the public money systems.
The two State Religions that dominate Americans, and most of the rest of the world today, are the monetary system and national security. Both are basically psychotic, and therefore, headed towards psychotic breakdowns, because both are based on backing up huge legalized lies with lots of legalized violence, which can never make those lies stop being false, but only continue to drive society as a whole to become more insane, since those huge lies are absurd, but nevertheless, continue to be socially successful to the degree to which those lies can still be backed up with violence.
The road map to the American police state started with the privatization of the public "money" supply, and will end with the privatization of the public murder systems. At that point, there will no longer be any American democratic republic whatsoever that remains, and its rule of law will have been transformed into an almost totally privatized system of organized crime, which will spin out of control, as the resulting mercenaries more and more run amok. (It then becomes interesting to speculate upon whatever MIGHT survive through that, and emerge as a "new world order" on the other side?)
Governments were always the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals. For several Centuries that has more and more become a situation in which the international bankers were the biggest gangsters, that were able to dominate the patterns of the funding of the political processes, in all of the ways which applied the principles and methods of organized crime, in order to capture control over the powers of governments, which were theoretically and ideally supposed to belong to and come from "We the People." However, gradually, at a faster and faster rate, the government became government of the money, for the money, by the money, while it simultaneously became possible to fool enough of the people, enough of the time, such as illustrated by how the "war against marijuana" became the majority of the war against drugs, whereby huge lies that marijuana was almost as bad as murder destroyed the radical truth that hemp was the single best plant on the planet for people.
Bit by bit, the situations were driven to develop more and more rationalizations and justifications to build a fascist police state, to serve the interests of the runaway fascist plutocracy juggernaut, which has now reached the point where that is possibly going to turn the majority of Americans into its road kill in the foreseeable future. That is especially the case because the majority of those Americans that begin to understand that situation somewhat, still continue to turn from relatively good analysis of those social facts, to then promote the same old-fashioned false fundamental dichotomies, and related impossible ideals, as the source for "solutions," which actually are bogus, because such impossible ideals always cause the opposite to happen in the real world.
There is NO realistic way to stop money being measurement backed by murder. There is NO realistic way to stop human civilizations from being systems of organized lies operating robberies. Promoting any impossible ideals that it is possible to somehow stop those fundamental facts from continuing to be the real social facts are absolutely guaranteed to continue to backfire badly, and cause the opposite things to happen. Rather, the realistic goals for the future are to muddle through the madnesses of the dynamic equilibria of the different systems of organized lies operation robberies, seeking better balancing of their rates.
At this time, it appears that there is no longer any reasonably possible ways to adequately reform the established social systems. The foundations of the political economy have become too rotten to fix, and nothing more that is still built on those foundations will be able to stand. Rather, we should go through intellectual scientific revolutions, in order to transform towards real radical revolutions, which change the basic ways that the combined money/murder systems operate. The back-up systems to those transformations are going to be the natural selection forces, which will emerge as the current runaway debt insanities provoke much more corresponding consequences of death insanities. That is going to be a wild, out of control, roller coaster ride, which may well jump the rails!
Ideally, we should be retooling the fascist, oligarchical plutocracy, in order to accomplish necessary purposes by making greater uses of information, that enable a higher consciousness to operate the death controls that back up the debt controls. Both of those things combined need to be understood through radically different paradigm shifts, which appreciate their realities as manifestations of general energy systems. Both of those things require radical transformations in the basic philosophy of science, which then apply to political science, and therefore, to the transformations of the money/murder systems.
The path we are on now is that where the privatization of the money systems is being matched by the privatization of the murder systems. That process has lost track of the source that everyone has some power to rob, and some power to kill to back that up. The citizens have mostly become incompetent political idiots. Too few citizens comprehend the ways that they were members of an organized crime gang, which they called their country. Too few people understand the degree to which international treaties promoted by the banksters have gradually created a spiders' web of ensarements, whereby the effective privatizations of the combined money/murder systems have been already mostly globalized.
The international bankers are working on a globalized agenda, to try to consolidate their power to make the world's public "money" supply out of nothing as debts, in order to secure total control over the world's natural resources, through those systems of enforced frauds. However, doing that is becoming more and more problematic every day, as the longer term consequences of controlling civilization through systematically enforced frauds becomes crazier and crazier. It is no longer as possible for that empire to as easily force all other countries to cooperate with that agenda.
North America continues to play a significant role in those developments, and therefore, a theoretically significant role in any possible revolutionary transformations of those developments. Within the foreseeable future we are going to likely witness the military and police forces being given increasingly insane orders. One of the clear potential breaking points may occur when some aspects of the merging military/police forces are given orders which are too criminally insane for them to obey anymore ???
More than anything else, we need radical paradigm shifts in militarism, which is the ideology of the murder system. More than anybody else, the personnel who implement the combined money/murder systems need to break through to new ways of thinking about what they are doing and why, and therefore, become able to revolutionize the ways that they are doing that! Of course, at the present time the militarized police appear to have necessarily become those who were the most brainwashed to believe in the biggest bullies' bullshit social stories, and therefore, may seem like the last people who are able to become more enlightened about what they were really doing, in order to go through the required paradigm shifts in perceiving that, to actually do their tasks better.
Clearly, I tend to indulge in somewhat fanatical day dreaming regarding the potential for real, radical revolutions. Obviously, I have no possible first-hand knowledge about whether it might be possible for some of the banksters, and their mercenaries, to become more enlightened, so that they could transcend their current systems, where they are stuck in their ruts. I am merely speculating, based on my own understanding of the situation, that there should be a grander spiral of transformations, whereby the runaway privatization of the public money/murder systems goes Ouroboros upon itself ???
Sincerely, and with all due respect Radical Marijuana,
I would like to change the "are" to "were" when you say "The international bankers are working on a globalized agenda, to try to consolidate their power to make the world's public "money" supply out of nothing as debts, in order to secure total control over the world's natural resources..." and hopefully I'm not taking this out of context. As you say, they are too successful and now that they essentially DO control all the resources, they are TERRIFIED with what they now hold in their hands. They, more than ANYONE, want to retool, because they more than ANYONE know "the back-up systems to those transformations are going to be the natural selection forces, which will emerge as the current runaway debt insanities provoke much more corresponding consequences of death insanities. That is going to be a wild, out of control, roller coaster ride, which may well jump the rails!" They know what you mean by "jumping the rails" and that's why they are terrified.
They own it all. The MAD, the GLD, the BTC, the ore, timber, oil, gas, and coal, AG, HR... all of it. But they own the Oceans and the Atmosphere too. OOPS!
"One of the clear potential breaking points may occur when some aspects of the merging military/police forces are given orders which are too criminally insane for them to obey anymore ???"
No, we can't wait for the henchmen to disobey because they would have/should have already, like the climax scene from Zeitgeist: Moving Forward or 'A Soldiers Inquiry' or 'OPPT'. That would be too easy an out for the Oligarchs. Nope, they asked for it and now they OWN it.
There's only one way out and it's OK, it's the reasonable/Mystic Rythmic one, and they know it...
ALL roads lead to Paris, the TOTAL retooling jumpstarts in December2015, because it must...
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Funny how James Burke talked 25 years ago about "retooling" but I love how you talk about retooling EVERYTHING! So that's where #Occupy got it wrong!
America has turned into sheep.
Deal with it.
Armed Citizens and a Fascist Polize State cannot coexist.
Oh yes it can when those armed citizens won't use those arms against tyranny.
America is first communist nation with 300 million pivately owned guns.
Amazing, can't believe it has happened, but it has.
there are 11 and 12 year old negro youths in my neighborhood who choose to ride their bicycles in the middle of the street while glaring at me because I drive up behind them in said street. See when I was a wee lad the neighbors would have called my folks and told them their son was a dumb ass and looking to get himself killed. It is called attitude. It is a learned and taught behavior. Where do you think these negro lads will be in ten years when at ages 11 and 12 they exhibit this kind of behavior. Successful small business start ups? Doubt it. Hard working and productive members of society? Doubt it.
See it isn't color, it is parenting. In the 60's with the Great Society we took away the black man's responsiblity to feed the children he breeds. If a lad isn't butting heads with the male authority figure in his life by the age of 13 or 14 he may end up dancing with boys. Another topic for another day. So,,, in our ghetto communitites it is rare to see whole families. Father ,, mother,,, two or 3 children with the same father married to mommy. It is this lack of leadership and discipline in the home,,, that breeds rebellion and lack of responsiblity. They breed,, produce babies,, you and I feed,, house,, clothe,,, and pay for medical care for them that a lot of us can no longer afford only to have them get to 11 and 12 years old and glare back at the hand that feeds them in the street for daring to drive my car.
Too honest for you? Refute it. I have watched the slow boil death of America since the 60's. I have lived and worked in or near some of the biggest ghettos in our country. Think Detroit and Chicago. I have been mugged,,,, well I would call it an attempted mugging,, didn't end well for the mugger. I have worked with and for blacks. I respect all until they give me a reason not to. I have been called honky,,, cracker,, great white hope(as a supervisor), MFer. The country isn't fixable. Call me defeatist. I am a realist. Turn off the EBT cards. All of them. You will see how realistic the "Will work for food" placards are at the freeway exits. We could all die and come back 100 years later and the politicians will still be playing the race card. You know who really discriminates in this country? The blacks who call the successful blacks Uncle Toms. Rant ,,, off,,, no sarc,,,
small biz startups:
street level drug dealer
pimp
ho
grifter
con artist
pan handler
All put together they would not do the damage done by one Bankster outfit. Not even close! Let us recognize the real criminals as evidenced by the DOJ, FBI, etc.
Google "bank consent orders".
Add poor white trash and your rant would be complete.
"Land of the Free and Home of the Brave"
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cough. cough.
If you want to know the direction of the modern police state look at Detroit. Systemic collapse is well underway with precinct houses falling into ruin and operating budgets being consumed by retirees. Cops are mercenaries. When the money stops they stop.
"america" is being harvested for its children to
be the police officers and foot soldiers of the world.
it is a part of the economics of the international
variety. the culture,etc.. is being destroyed by the
financial weapons industries
and the minds of the people are being trained to
become operators or support personnel of weapons systems. the television
programming is saturating them with narratives of weapons
use, myths and tidbits from conflicts past and present
and hero worship of the fallen soldier or mercenary, the media
providing the catechism for the church of financial military dominance.
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the world wants cheap mercenaries, armed trained and ready
to provide military force for resource extraction and
exploitation. the leaders in d.c. have accepted this
national niche for the youth, just like the fall of rome,
or the third reich.
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the constitution and human rights must be suspended
in this new paradigm though a few privileges remain
when granted by the overriding system of conformity
and brute force.
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they traded their freedom and prosperity for insanity, mass hysteria
and fiat money, thereby lost their humanity.
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it is inevitable when a people nearly criminalize creativity,
work, free thinking and the genius of problem solving because
it goes counter to the dominant military hierarchy which
has been deemed essential for the greater good and national
security.
i can't remember the last time i heard a good argument or debate
about something important. it seems if the topic is actually
important debate is avoided. if the topic is tangential then
it is milked for all the emotion it can muster to sell some
pharmaceutical product or saponified fat.
Mussel Man
from Carsey-Wolf Center PRO 2 weeks ago
http://vimeo.com/107648358
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here is a great and short movie that
tells an important story, don't miss it.
blindman, -- thanks for the link. Every man in this country who produces a vital commodity experiences the burden of those parasitic regulators and their enforcers. The envy and hatred towards the producers of feed and food is a deep illness in our society. That pathology would be good subject for a bright farm kid with a talent for writing and film.
yea, catch the irony at the end. he is forced into
dramatically expanding his operation to pay for the
impact studies that will obviously prove what he is
doing is fucking brilliant. however, by expanding
what he is doing the result of the study might not
be the same but it will certainly increase his debt
and the money supply/liquidity. of course it will create
work and payouts to attorneys and environmental firms
and keep the bureaucracy floating for a few more minutes.
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it is freakin' sad and depraved how they crucify the
best and the brightest. the transparent hand of the financial
globalists needing to control is evident in this story.
they kill the community to save their influence and take
of the action. that is what they do through regulation.
let the people starve to save them ......
they take an important issue, like the environment and
impact, and then write the codes in such a way as to
affirm the advantage and dominance of the global monopolists.
the codes are often not about what is purported.
of course
the global monopolists just move operations where there are
no environmental regulations, dominate the markets with
further regulation and then become the only operator
capable of financing the next phase of exploitation.
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it seems to be an example of the financial-legal system
claiming dominance over the actual stomachs and nutrition
of the people it claims to protect and serve. nothing new.
Clawhammer Banjo, Dry And Dusty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwlZRjsyfr4
Funny, but my takeaway from Ferg was too may feral parasites and not enough forced contraception in this country. Militarization of police so why did he shoot the massive feral freight train with a gun???? Why not a bazooka.....Hmmm, Har.
Not a good event to push the very valid NSA, big brother meme on us IMO. You could just as easily do a Joo bash takeaway. Joo's are behind everything dontchaknow. The sour ole blue dog dem shills ..... "none of this matters anarchistic,12 steppers so prevalent here" would lap it up.
the ussa has gotten to be the way it is by the steady march of PROGRESSIVE POLICY..... which is now a combo of socialist/marxist plus big business and oligarchs "crony capitalism" versus human rights and freedom.......
The ultra wealthy started on a campaign to enslave the masses with a NEW WORLD ORDER / ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT as a tyranical govenment serving the .01% at the expense of the rest... Technology today offers them the real opportunity to make their dreams come true.. 1913 -2014....
The ussa is not a capitalistic country ... hence smart corporate leaders want to INVERT... flee taxation.... The ussa points to capitalism as the evil and seduces the ignorant masses with social programs all of which have failed or are in the process of failing. obamacare was nothng ore than an insurance industry fraud under the socialist guise of caring for the poor and oppressed. the result is more poor and oppressed and additional people who had insurance who now cant afford it with massive deductibles...
the ussa current regime is no longer a government limited by the rule of laws.... it is a cheap whore managed by an anti amerika marxist racist agenda by an incompetent group running a secret agenda.......
There is no such policy. No progressives. No conservatives. There's only the Bankster Fascists and the Slaves.
All else is illusion.
Keiser Report: Trickle Down Terror! (E667)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOKs3rTu0Ec
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key phrases: permanent gold backwardization and front running.
... and clowns.
Who Will Buy - Oliver! (1968) original soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW6CfSQIzOk
The article seems to have been written by a clerk who transcribed a panel discussion. I am thankful to those savvy and imformed commenters who have a real world knowledge of men, criminals, and niggers of all stripes and colors.
can i get an " amen " over here !!!!
people just gotta chill out ... sit back n have an espresso
wait 10min and get a newspaper
head over to the throne n crank out a huge turd
feel better now !
that your not full of it .... lol
LMAO! Most of these ZHer’s love to use big words; common sense, not so much. Yes, the police have become militarized, the fear-mongers saw to that. “Never let a crisis go to waste”. But, the cops still have to deal with the scum every day. And, yes, the cops tend to protect each other too even in questionable incidents. This was not one of those. So far from all accounts it is very likely a large black male attacked him and he feared for his life. In that situation he popped off a few “extra” rounds, so what? Both men he stopped were criminals, it’s the only life they know. The bigger issue remains that this country has a very thin veneer of ‘tolerance’ and beneath is a boiling cauldron of hate. It also shows clearly why the welfare state can never end, and in fact will grow far larger. Hurricane Katrina and the looting was clear evidence animal instincts are still there. Cut back the handouts and our cities will burn. Good paying jobs went to Asia so we can buy cheap stuff at Wal-Mart. Millions more are still pouring into this country and will end up on the welfare rolls, until the burden collapses the whole system. Most people don’t give a s*** so long as the Fed pushes their stocks higher. Let the cops deal with the problems. So the cops buy armored cars and more machine guns. Rinse-repeat.
Lies.
Since we all know it's lies that's why the police are the ones called out, they are the thugs, armed and murderous.
It's amazing how many fucktards also try to pretend that Trayvon Martin was anything but a victim.
He was unarmed and was pursued by an armed gun-man yet a giant number of zerohedge fucktards pretend he's the perpetrator. He couldn't be. He was chased, executed by a murderous man. Period.
Your lies don't pass muster.
I for one welcome the fucking chaos.
Absolute fucking chaos.
Bring it.
I think it will be very, very lucrative.
we already have chaos? if it would be
subdued we would have some simple intelligent
sanity. that would be a relief.
I'm waiting for the first incident where the people, tired of posting videos to YouTube, actively intervene during one of these police incidents. When a few from the watching crowd decide to go and physically restrain the officer or officers, and disarm them.
Don't think that couldn't happen, despite our 'sheeple' demeanor most times. You get the right crowd, at the right incident, and you could have scenes like you occasionally see from China. Chinese folks may put up with alot from their government, but when they hit back, they ain't playin'.
I watched one from China where the police were trying to drag their bloodied comrades away after they pissed off a crowd by beating some street vendor. There wasn't any demonstration or anything, folks witnessing it simply got pissed and got together to beat the crap out of the police.
Again, all the more reason to join the FSA and subvert from within. Collapse the system by becoming a member of the "Free Shit Army'. Divest and conceal assets, quit working for a W-2, use black market. buy used when it makes sense, get on EBT, get on Medicade, barter, get off the power grid and grow a garden. Now this may take some work but you will find yourself with much more free time. Oh, it helps if you eliminate debt first by whatever means.
Or you could go on working for the man and giviing up most of your productive work to support....me!
Tune in, turn on and drop out....still works!
The gentle giant Mr. Brown not a kid might I remind you, was supposedly going to be indicted for 2nd degree murder, lawsuits have been filed to have is juvenile records released
and the Indictment, of course an activist judge is trying to block the release.
As far as Treygone Martin, he was on administrative leave IE expelled from school for possesion of marijuana and had previously been arrested for possesion of burglary tools.
Admistrative leave is liberal speak for not arresting somone as to not having our junior criminals getting a record before they turn 18 yrs. old.
Treygones autopsy show liver damage for abuse of "purple lean" a concotion they drink in the hood thats why he was buying skittles that night and Arizona brand fruit punch
not ice tea as reported he was making purple lean.
The store video shows him trying to buy "tussion" which the clerk refused to sell him. Minutes later to other individuals came in and bought the robotussion for him.
Bottom line don't get hign and case a neighboorhood looking for something to steal and then wrestle with someone who has a gun.
If Treygone was arrested at school he wouldn't have been where he was so thank a liberal for his death and give Zimmerman a medal:)
My fiance in 1995, she was from Spain, arrived in Massachusetts to be with me. The next day we were about to go to the beach. She came out topless, and I freaked out and said she'd be arrested for being topless. She came back right away and said "But America is the land of Liberty and Freedom!"
I was hoisted up by my own pretards. I was speechless. The America that I grew up in, in the late 60's and 70's was gone. I wondered now if it ever existed. I lived in Spain, twice, I saw and lived a touch of liberty in a socialist country. People still get up off their posterior and protest when their liberties are being taken away in Spain. What I'm left with after that experience is that we Americans, those blessed with a Bill of Rights to protect us, have forgotten the meaning of those profound words and protections. We have become a shell of what we were supposed to be. I have been ashamed of my countrymen for those past 19 years, by a woman from Spain, who spoke truth to America.
Wher is the freedom, where is the liberty?
We are living in the Matrix. Either we wake up now, or we can kiss this idea of freedom away. ...but here I am, preaching to the choir on ZH.