Government is the most ideal tool for oppressing the masses. No other body or structure has ever served as effectively at physically managing populations than government. The definition of government being: The Administration or management of an organization, body, or institution by use of power and authority. The founding fathers understood the dangers of such an institution at the time of the crafting of the Constitution of these Untied States. They understood this startling fact: That in the story of history it has been governments, not people that have always been the tools of corrupt or power mad individuals to attain their goals. This is where the idea of a limited government came from. To counter balance the danger of having all powerful institutions the framers expressly designed a system that would resist such expressions of power so long as the people of the country actively participated in the maintenance of those safeguards.
When the populace fails to maintain those safeguards as the American people have over the last 5 years the development of an authoritarian regime is inevitable.
The most obvious evidence of this is of course is the reprogramming of our police and military forces from protectors of the peace and the individual to enforcers of law and servants only unto the state. The reason for this simple: as any government becomes more authoritarian it requires ever escalating levels of protection from the group of people it is oppressing; in our case namely the American citizen.
This is evident by the evolution of the millitizeration of our police forces. Look at the police today and explain why they are progressively beginning to look more and more like our military? What is the need for our police to be dressed paramilitary style with cargo pants tucked into black combat boots? Why are our police working in conjunction with the military with increasing regularity receiving more and more equipment, training, even to the point of conducting joint exercises? Why is any of this necessary if violent crime is at a twenty year low? Whys is this necessary when the fundamental jobs of these two forces could not be more different? Essentially the military engages in violent acts to achieve its ends while the goal of policing is to prevent violent acts from ever occurring? How does arming, militarizing, and programming our police forces for violence achieve this goal?
This reality is highlighted by the fact that police refer to themselves as law enforcement officers now instead of as peace officers and refer the people now as civilians instead of as citizens. This is important because in fact by changing the language describing the nature of policing you subtly begin to change the mindset of the participants of policing.
Before I go on let me make it very clear that I am not an anarchist, and I am not anti-police. I am anti-tyranny. I believe that human freedom is the highest ideal given to man by the will of GOD. I believe as our founding fathers did that our government stands to serve and protect those freedoms. I believe that currently that the US population has been whipped into a frenzy of fear and reactionism since September the 11 and that we have forgotten some very fundamental ideas regarding what our country is about in the rush to protect ourselves from perceived threats.
Many pragmatists out there argue that we are in a struggle for survival and that all measures must be maintained to safeguard the population and government. However, Benjamin Franklin said it best: Those that give up freedom for security will receive and deserve neither freedom nor security. He has articulated this reality: security is an illusion, total security can never bee achieved and no amount of security can ever be maintained to make anyone totally safe. The other point of this quote underlines the fact that only the free have any true safety, this is because when you give up freedom you expose yourself to dangers far beyond the power of mere individuals to accomplish, when you relinquish freedom you are at that point exposed to the power of the state with no safeguards and no limit to what it can do to you should it deem it necessary by demand or whim. This goes back to the founding fathers understanding of how governments, not individuals are among the most dangerous threats to man.
The argument of exchanging freedom for security doesn?t make sense because in reality it?s the rush to save our way of life by destroying it. What is productively accomplished by this thinking? In the 20th century time and again from Israel to the British Isle to Russia or China we have seen that no matter what level of security is present in whatever form or police state the dedicated agent will be able to strike. IF we can agree then that no amount of police state tactics can guarantee security en mass then what outcome can a police state serve other than the most evident one of oppressing the citizen?
How can we even call ourselves the land of the free if we have the largest inmate population per capita in the history of the world? More than china, more than nazi Germany, of soviet Russia. Where has that American spirit of give me liberty or give me death gone to? Where has the idea that as a country we would stand for our ideals and beliefs no matter the cost gone to? Where has the land of the free and the home of the brave gone? Have we become so weak and fearful that we can?t see through these falsehoods? Not only is the idea that we can protect ourselves from terror false it is made further irrelevant by the fact that in trying to protect ourselves by creating a police state we do the job of the terrorist for them by destroying ourselves from within. The definition of the United States resides in the freedoms it espouses as its founding documents proclaim. Without those freedoms this country no longer exists.
There is no hiding from the consequences of these facts. There is no denying this logic. History has shown time and again there is only one outcome to the creation of an authoritarian state that answers only to itself. Tyranny by the government, terrorized oppression for the people.
The evidence of the beginning of this abounds every week as new cases are reported across the country of the police terrorizing the citizenry. The murder of Victoria Snelgrove, shot in the eye by a police pepper spray ball after leaving the World Series for no other reason than walking down a public sidewalk exemplifies such brutality. Another case In Evergreen Park, Ill where a pregnant woman was shot in the abdomen with a taser at her wedding reception for protesting her father (a police officer as well) being tasered to the ground outside of the reception because he dared ask the officer why they were still present after his complying with an order to turn down the music at the festivities. These two stories having occurred over the last year are not irregularities but the norm. They represent the systemic problem of our police forces having no regard for the citizens that they are employed to serve and protect. These two instances are an outrage?.the officers involved should be removed from the force and never allowed access to an authority position again. The citizenry must respond to these blatant acts of aggression from law enforcement. It is absolutely un exceptiable for police to behave in this way, and it is suicidally idiotic for the public to no to hold the guilty parties responsible. Make no mistake, these acts of brutality are merely the beginning and will only grow worse as we allow them to.
Who do the police serve? Do they serve the government or do they serve the people? This is a very simple litmus test for what kind of police we have. Are they here to protect the people or are they here to prey on them? Which one do you enjoy the most?
Again I have nothing but respect and admiration for any man or woman willing to risk their life to protect those weaker than themselves. To the good and just men in uniform who gain a real sense of satisfaction from trying to protect the people I say good job. But to the petty thug, the felon, the officer or official who takes enjoyment from controlling or exercising his power over the citizenry, who believes that the people are his slaves rather than he their servant, I spit on such individuals, you are a disgusting aberration, a cancer eating at the heart or justice, and in this world or the next?your day will come.
The law without justice is tyranny, the practice of this is evident because the law has always been the verbiage of corrupt governments in oppressing its people. This is where we have come today, the molding of a system of laws where everyone is a petty criminal being hunted on the whims by hyped up adrenaline jock cops who get off feeling empowered by victimizing citizens while being enforcers of a corrupt parasitical state feeding off of those it now declares helpless against its aggressions.
This is a lie. The people have the power, and no matter what governments may say our rights have been secured by our creator and can not be removed from us. The people have forgotten that they make the laws and the government answer to them, not the reverse.
Our police and military must come to realize that the citizen is not the enemy, that the constitution is the supreme and rightful law of this land, and that any order, writ or proclamation from the smallest civil authority up to the chief executive of this nation are not only null and void if they contradict the founding principles of those documents but are criminal. The idea that the government serves the people and its employees are servants of the people must return to the American way of thinking if we are to retake our governing bodies from the elite controlled corporate fascist nightmare that currently runs them.
This has become a battle for preservation. Make no mistake, if the country reacts with the same apathy and fearfulness that it did after the September 11 attacks. And yes there will be more terror attacks, our government has promised it and our foreign policy assures it. If we react in the same way, increasing the command and control society that is being built all around us everyday via the patriot act 1 and 2 utilizing the most advanced surveillance technology ever. Then the last few shreds of protection against tyranny that we posses will slip away, burned like books on the flames of ignorance. If we do not become involved, if we don?t stand up for our future and the future of our families, and champion truth and freedom then we are lost, and with us the last best chance for the flame of freedom.
You and only you have the power to stop this, but to do so requires active participation, it requires that you put down the remote, stop playing the game and get involved in the ongoing battle for the future. Don?t delude yourself, this reality you?ve know, all these freedoms, and luxuries you?ve taken for granted your entire life are crumbling, being dismantled by the same forces that are going to tell you that they are your savior while they slam the door shut forever on your freedom.
