PRETTY SOON WE WONT BE ABLE TO WALK DOWN THE STREET WITH OUR HANDS IN OUR POCKETS..WITHOUT BEING ARRESTED.. WE LIVE IN A POLICE STATE: GONE WILD!!! Excerpts ...the writings of John Whitehead, a contemporary author, commentator and founder of the Rutherford Institute, an organization dedicated to the defense of civil liberties and human rights. Neither politically right nor left, Whitehead -- like Weil -- is a champion of the people, and he has long warned of rising tyranny in America. Its no coincidence that during the same week in which the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Yates v. United States, a case in which a Florida fisherman is being threatened with 20 years jail time for throwing fish that were too small back into the water, Florida police arrested a 90-year-old man twice for violating an ordinance that prohibits feeding the homeless in public, Whitehead wrote in his Nov. 10 column [see it here]. Both cases fall under the umbrella of overcriminalization, that phenomenon in which everything is rendered illegal and everyone becomes a lawbreaker. Indeed, he notes, these are the kinds of things that happen -- and they happen multiple times a day, 365 days a year, to millions of American citizens -- when an over-bureaucratized system has been built by the power elites (of both major political parties), then used as a hammer with which to beat the people into compliance. Bartering away our freedom Only, as he and others have observed, compliance is impossible, if only because of the sheer number of rules with which the citizenry must comply -- even as the government insists that ignorance of the law is no excuse. Weve bartered away our right to self-governance, self-defense, privacy, autonomy and that most important right of all--the right to tell the government to leave me the hell alone, wrote Whitehead, and we have done so in exchange for the promise of safe streets, safe schools, blight-free neighborhoods, lower taxes, lower crime rates, and readily accessible technology, health care, water, food and power (none of which have come to fruition). But in making that deal, weve opened the door to militarized police, government surveillance, asset forfeiture, school zero tolerance policies, license plate readers, red light cameras, SWAT team raids, health care mandates, overcriminalization and government corruption, he said... Learn more: naturalnews/047741_overcriminalization_police_state_American_government.html#ixzz3KcEeOafG
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 04:07:26 +0000
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