The Police State Is Upon Us
By Paul Craig Roberts
January 31, 2015 "ICH"
- Anyone paying attention knows that 9/11 has been used to create a
police/warfare state. Years ago NSA official William Binney warned
Americans about the universal spying by the National Security Agency, to
little effect. Recently Edward Snowden proved the all-inclusive NSA
spying by releasing spy documents, enough of which have been made
available by Glenn Greenwald to establish the fact of NSA illegal and
unconstitutional spying, spying that has no legal, constitutional, or
“national security” reasons.Yet Americans are not up in arms. Americans
have accepted the government’s offenses against them as necessary
protection against “terrorists.”
Neither
Congress, the White House, or the Judiciary has done anything about the
wrongful spying, because the spying serves the government. Law and the
Constitution are expendable when the few who control the government have
their “more important agendas.”
Bradley
Manning warned us of the militarization of US foreign policy and the
murderous consequences, and Julian Assange of WikiLeaks posted leaked
documents proving it.
Were
these whistleblowers and honest journalists, who alerted us to the
determined attack on our civil liberty, rewarded with invitations to the
White House and given medals of honor in recognition of their service
to American liberty?
No.
Bradley Manning is in federal prison, and so would be Julian Assad and
Edward Snowden if Washington could get its hands on them.
Binney
escaped the Police State’s clutches, because he did not take any
documents with which to prove his allegations, and thus could be
dismissed as “disgruntled” and as a “conspiracy kook,” but not arrested
as a “spy” who stole “national secrets.”
Greenwald,
so far, is too prominent to be hung for reporting the truth. But he is
in the crosshairs, and the Police State is using other cases to close in
on him.
These
are only five of the many people who have provided absolute total proof
that the Bill of Rights has been overthrown. Washington continues to
present itself to the world as the “home of the free,” the owner of the
White Hat, while Washington demonstrates its lack of mercy by invading
or bombing seven countries on false pretenses during the past 14 years,
displacing, killing, and maiming millions of Muslims who never raised a
fist against the US.
Many
commentators have written articles and given interviews about
government’s ever expanding police powers. The totality of the American
Police State is demonstrated by its monument in Utah, where an enormous
complex has been constructed in which to store every communication of
every American. Somehow a son or daughter checking on an aged parent, a
working mother checking on her children’s child care, a family ordering a
pizza, and sweethearts planning a date are important matters of
national security.
Some
educated and intelligent people understand the consequences, but most
Americans perceive no threat as they “have nothing to hide.”
The
Founding Fathers who wrote the Bill of Rights and attached it to the US
Constitution did not have anything to hide, but they clearly
understood, unlike modern day Americans, that freedom depended
completely on strictly limiting the ability of government to intrude
upon the person.
Those limits provided by the Founding Fathers are gone. The hoax “war on terror” demolished them.
Today
not even the relationships between husband and wife and parents and
children have any protection from arbitrary intrusions by the state.
Essentially, government has destroyed the family along with civil liberty.
In
Police State America, authorities can enter your home on the basis of
an anonymous “tip” that you are, or might be, somehow, abusing your
children, or exposing them to medicines that are not in containers with
child-proof caps or to household bleach that is not under lock and key,
and seize your children into state custody on the grounds that you
present a danger to your children.
The
government does not have to tell you who your accuser is. It can be
your worst enemy or a disgruntled employee, but the tipster is
protected. However, you and your family are not.
The
authorities who receive these tips treat them as if they are valid. A
multi-member goon squad shows up at your house. This is when the utterly
stupid “I have nothing to hide” Americans discover that they have no
rights, regardless of whether they have anything to hide.
We
owe this police power over parents and children to “child advocates”
who lobbied for laws based on their fantasies that all parents are
serial rapists of children, and if not, are medieval torturers, trained
by the CIA, who physically and psychologically abuse their children.
In
the opinion of “child advocates,” children are brought into the world
in order to be abused by parents. Dogs and cats and the fish in the
fishbowl are not enough. Parents need children to abuse, too, just as
the Police and the Police State need people to abuse.
Of
course, sometimes real child abuse occurs. But it is not the routine
event that the Child Protective Services Police assume. A sincere
investigation, such as was missing in the report on the home-schooled
children, would have had one polite person appear at the door to explain
to the parents that there had been a complaint that their children were
being exposed to a poisonous substance in the home. The person should
have listened to the parents, had a look at the children, and if there
was any doubt about the water purifier, ask that its use be discontinued
until its safety could be verified.
But nothing sensible happened, because the Police State does not have to be sensible.
Instead,
a half dozen goon thugs show up. The parents are put outside in the
snow for 5 hours while the children are scared to death with questions
and then carried away from their home, mother, and father.
In Police State America, this is called Protecting Children. We owe this tyranny to the idiot “child advocates.”
It
is no longer important to protect children from homosexuals, unless the
homosexuals are Catholic child pedophiles. But it is absolutely
necessary to protect children from their parents.
So,
yes, dear insouciant American fool, whether you have anything to hide
or not, you are in grave danger, and so are your children, in Police
State America.
You can no longer rely on the Constitution to protect you.
This
is the only way that you can protect yourself: grovel before your
neighbors, your co-workers, your employees and employers, and, most
definitely, before “public authority” and your children, as your
children can report you. Don’t complain about anything. Do not get
involved in protests. Don’t make critical comments on the Internet or on
your telephone calls. Don’t homeschool. Don’t resist vaccines. Turn
your backs to leaders who could liberate you as it is too dangerous to
risk the failure of liberation. Be an abject, cowardly, obedient,
servile member of the enserfed, enslaved American population. Above all,
be thankful to Big Brother who protects you from terrorists and
Russians.
You, dear insouciant, stupid, American are back on the Plantation. Perhaps that is your natural home. In his masterful A People’s History of the United States,
Howard Zinn documents that despite their best efforts the exploited and
abused American people have never been able to prevail against the
powerful private interests that control the government. Whenever in
American history the people rise up they are struck down by brute force.
Zinn
makes totally clear that “American freedom, democracy, liberty,
blah-blah” are nothing but a disguise for the rule over America by
money.
Wave
the flag, sing patriot songs, see enemies where the government tells
you to see them, and above all, never think. Just listen. The government
and its presstitute media will tell you what you must believe.
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