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.
Those insouciant Americans
who do not fear the police state because
they “have nothing to hide” desperately need
to read: Home-schooled Children Seized By
Authorities Still In State Custody:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/01/gary-north/homeschool-children-kidnapped/
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.
More evidence of Police
State America:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/notes-on-police-violence-in-america-police-shoot-and-kill-two-teenage-girls-within-two-weeks/5428432
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
Economic Policy and associate editor of the
Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for
Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service,
and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet
columns have attracted a worldwide
following. Roberts' latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and
Economic Dissolution of the West and
How America Was Lost.