Our Ongoing Slide into a Police State

You can link my thread about being watched in here.

Ammo background checks are a great start.
The move towards digital currency.

police post we need your help .. LMAO

but i can't call 911 for there help on getting a rusted nut off the truck wheel lol

Hochul and Biden want to over rule local so I g laws to increase housing in suburban areas.

Dr. Evil said:

You can link my thread about being watched in here.

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tirwin1 said:

Nothing suspicious about this at all. Matt Taibi has been exposing the government's illegal restriction of speech on twitter by using third parties. As he testified before congress the IRS decided they needed more information on his past tax returns. Just a coincidence I'm sure.

Jim Jordan Demands IRS Explain Unannounced Visit to Matt Taibbi’s Home | National Review

Agents were dispatched to Taibbi’s home the same day the journalist appeared before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

www.nationalreview.com

Outrageous but all too common behavior these days.

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Just say "NO!!!".

No agency of fUSA.Gov, not promulgated in the Constitution, has any legal authority whatsoever.

All they have is guns.........

This is the kind of 3rd world shit that makes preppers, preppers. The worst part, well one of the worst, is that only a small percentage of the USA citizenry realize what's going on, or gives a shit.

tirwin1 said:

I'm certain the modern day equivalent of Woodward and Bernstein will be all over this story.

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I agree. But there's a funny thing, about that.

Almost everyone involved in the Watergate break-in was CIA. The entire thing was an Op to get rid of Nixon, for promising payback to "those who'd killed John."

Turns out Woodward was a year retired out of Naval Intelligence. Compare the story he "uncovered" vs what is in those recently declassified docs, and yeah - the modern day equivalent will be all over most every story, lol.

Dr. Evil said:

You can link my thread about being watched in here.

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Oh, that's the one I got in trouble for calling the authorities bundles of sticks. I don't take it back.
All government pigs are authoritarian bundles of sticks.
After some research I say they are bundles of sticks 3' in length and 2' in diameter.

Bundles of sticks being necessary since the 1st Amendment is as big an illusion as the 2nd Amendment.
Which is why I hate bundles of sticks 3' long and 2' in diameter.

tirwin1 said:

We are already a surveillance state, on our way to becoming a police state.

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We are already a police state.

If the government can disappear you or suicide you, then its a police state.

If the government can arrest you on total bullshit to ruin your life with years of prison time, then its a police state.

If the government can lock an entire nation down, violate the Constitutional Rights of every American with a scheme that was a complete lie, and enforce harmful and deadly medical procedures under the threat of you losing your job, all while the powers that be were raking in billions while they crushed businesses that were not favored by the state, then its a police state.

If the government that pushes the envelope and participates in false flag operations and decades long propaganda to get its own population to acquiesce to being disarmed eventually, then its a police state.

If the government is plotting to set up concentration camps to imprison those who will not go along with their medical or political tyranny, then its at least a nascent police state.

If the government storm troopers can swoop in to steal your wealth under the color of law, when you have done nothing wrong or you're maybe a bit late or short on paying your taxes, rather than working with you to let you pay off your debt so you don't lose everything, then its a police state.

If the government reserves for itself the most advanced means of using violence, but restricts its citizenry from having parity in the means of violence, then its a police state.

If the government puts policy into place to liquidate babies, the disabled, the elderly, or anyone else who has committed no crime but being alive, then its a police state.

If the government can lie to the population with impunity, while imprisoning citizens for lying to them, then its a police state.

If the government makes laws that allows for secret detentions, secret charges, secret evidence the accused is not allowed to see, and secret trials not open to the public or news coverage, then its a police state.

If the government allows itself to legally invest via insider trading, while locking up citizens for doing the same, its a police state.

If the government is awash in bribes, kickbacks, sweetheart deals, and other blatant corruption, while jailing others not in the government for the same crimes, then it is a police state.

If the government purposely bends and breaks election laws so that they get the political victories they desire, while denying the People a free and fair election for their desired candidates to represent them as public officials, its a police state.

If the government hates your form of government, subverts it at every turn possible, perverts Justice, and demeans patriotic citizens, while supporting uprisings, riots, insurrections, crime, foreign invasion, and any other wicked or cruel device to destroy the Life, Liberty, and Happiness of its own People, it is despotic and a police state.

I could go on. I could give examples of each of these.

@John Stark you didn't need to type all that .. but it was good ..


if the government is exempt from laws .. then it is a Police State/Country ..

tirwin1 said:

Taibbi: Media Ignoring Developments on Hunter Laptop Letter Shows We're Becoming Like USSR Where Media 'all Lies' with 'No Real News'

On Friday's broadcast of Newsmax TV's "The Record," journalist Matt Taibbi stated that the lack of mainstream media coverage of the "massive story of | Clips

www.breitbart.com

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I'm not sure they're ignoring it -- I do hear it come up on Fox occasionally the last few days.

I don't watch the news. I stopped reading it too, largely. I just tell my phone to read it to me in the morning while I drink my coffee. It's all garbage, but I just want to make sure we're not in a war or if someone is coming from my guns at this point.

Either way, it's a distraction from the failure of our government to do productive things. A smokescreen, even if true.

"The controversial EARN IT Act, first introduced in 2020, is returning to Congress after failing twice to land on the president's desk. The Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act, (EARN IT) Act is intended to minimize the proliferation of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) throughout the web, but detractors say it goes too far and risks further eroding online privacy protections.

Here's how it would work, according to the language of the bill's reintroduction last year. Upon passing, EARN IT would create a national commission composed of politically-appointed law enforcement specialists. This body would be tasked with making a list of best practices to ostensibly curb the digital distribution of CSAM. If online service providers do not abide by these best practices, they would potentially lose blanket immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, opening them up to all kinds of legal hurdles -- including civil lawsuits and criminal charges. [...] The full text of H.R.2732 is not publicly available yet, so it's unclear if anything has changed since last year's attempt, though when reintroduced last year it was more of the same. (We've reached out to the offices of Reps. Wagner and Garcia for a copy of the bill's text.) A member of Senator Graham's office confirmed to Engadget that the companion bill will be introduced within the next week. It also remains to be seen if and when this will come up for a vote. Both prior versions of EARN IT died in committee before ever coming to a vote."

tirwin1 said:

I guess we really are a police state:

Non-Law Enforcement Agencies Like IRS and EPA Spend Billions on Guns and Ammo, Watchdog Says

The Militarization of Federal Bureaucracy - Updated Statistics Through March 31, 2023

There are now more federal agents with arrest and firearm authority (200,000) than U.S. Marines (186,000).

www.openthebooks.com

Since 2006, "76 rank-and-file agencies" outside "traditional law enforcement entities" or the Department of Defense spent $3.7 billion on "guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment," according to watchdog group Open the Books's summary of its report.

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That makes my spidie senses tingle a bit.

Wonder how many members/employees of those "agencies" would/could be considered *patriots*. The agency folks seem to be armed with some pretty good stuff, and lots of it. Are they preparing to protect our country, our citizens, and or themselves, from hostile entities, possible foreign invaders? That, while many states and our federal government appear to be doing their best to discourage and in some cases ban citizen's gun ownership, but why? Must be to protect the chir'n, right? Hhmmm.....
Certainly is something to ponder.....

Reminds me of the ol' saying.... if it walks like a duck....

Well, we started to slide down this road when 9-11 occured. And it only gained steam, and quickly! The biggest example of the entire Domestic Surveillance and SELF EMPOWERMENT displayed by the U.S. Govt was the 2012 NDAA... But more telling was the PRE and POST 9-11 Security Expos and the explosion of vendors and traits being exhibited and sold to U.S. acronym agencies. I believe if I recall correctly, it expanded like 10x in 2 short years... Lol

Said it before, it's appalling how Freedoms have become a luxury here now in our so called Free State, and when you look at the traditional European model which wasn't, but in contemporary times, now has more than here. Not only freedoms but better safeguarding of personal information security and more.

Is amazing how the general public here reminds me of "Stalin and the Chickens"...

Carry on...