Welcome to the Police State!
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd

What problems do we solve when we shoot a man in the back for sleeping in a Wendy’s drive thru because police agitated the situation to begin with? Where do the police go from here after they choked out G****e F***d? What problem was solved there? We can go on and on with police murders over the past 40 to 50 years, but I think you get the picture.

“This is not a new world: it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advancements, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy, and t***h is a menace.” – Rod Serling. Twilight Zone

How do you get a nation to become so docile that it accepts a police state? How do you get a populace to accept metal detectors and pat downs in their schools, bag searches in their train stations & airports with full body scans, tanks and military weaponry used by small town police forces, surveillance cameras on their traffic lights, police strip searches on their public roads, unwarranted and forced blood draws at DUI checkpoints on holidays, and government agents monitoring their communications?

While ramming all this down the public's throat you just might, at some point, find yourself with a r*******n on your hands. Would you not? Instead, you bombard the citizenry with constant color coded alerts, terrorize them with with reports of shootings and bomb threats in malls, schools, and sports arenas, desensitize them with a steady diet of police violence, and mesmerizer them with entertainment spectacles and electronic devices, while selling the whole package to them as being in their best interests.

And when leaders like John Kennedy, Bob Kennedy, and Martin Luther King and others have rose up to challenge the government elite, what happened to them? Government agents pull surveillance on them, intimidate them, threaten them, and in some cases cause them to disappear, knowing full well that few will rise up to take their place.

Likewise, when government whistleblowers, lacking followers or name recognition, rise up and shine a light on government’s misdeeds, they are called t*****rs, isolated from their friends and loved ones, and made examples of. This is what happens to those who dare to challenge the deep state police state.

Fixing the Unfixable

What is most striking about the American police state is not the megacorporations running amok in the halls of Congress, the militarized police crashing through doors and shooting unarmed citizens, or the insane surveillance regime which has begun to dominate every aspect of our lives. Now what has become most disconcerting about the emergence of the American police state is the extent to which American citizens appear content to passively wait for someone else to solve the nations many problems.

Thing is if we do not act soon, all that is in need of fixing will soon be unfixable, especially as it relates to the police state that becomes more entrenched and aggressive with each passing day. I am referring to more than a society overrun by the long arm of the law, federal, state, and local. I am referring to a society in which all aspects of a person’s life are policed by government agents, one in which all citizens are suspects, their activities monitored and regulated, their movements tracked, their communications spied upon, and their lives, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, dependent on the government’s say-so.

We Are the Enemy

Indeed, as the continued militarization of the police trends towards over-criminalization of the public, it will not be long before average law abiding citizens are breaking laws they did not even know existed. Like now in some places you cannot collect rainwater to water your lawn, light up a cig in the privacy of your own home, meet with friends for Sunday evening Bible study in your backyard, or be stopped like I was for expired tags, handcuffed taken down to the police station and license taken away, car impounded until I paid for new tags, with a penalty no doubt!

The outlook for civil liberties grow bleaker by the day, from the governments embrace of indefinite detention for US citizens and armed spy drones creeping overhead, to warrantless searches of phone, email, and Internet and prosecutions of government whistleblowers.

Meanwhile, the homeland is ruled by a police industrial complex, as an extension of the military industrial empire complete now with private prisons. Private prisons in the United States incarcerated 121,718 people in 2017, representing 8.2% of the total state and federal prison population. Since 2000, the number of people housed in private prisons has increased 39%. Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice show that, as of 2013, there were 133,000 state and federal prisoners housed in privately owned prisons in the U.S., constituting 8.4% of the overall U.S. prison population.

The prison industry as a whole took in over $5 billion in revenue in 2011. The companies making the most money from prisons in America are Geo Group and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which combined run more than 170 prisons and detention centers. CCA made revenues of $1.79bn in 2015, up from $1.65bn in 2014. Geo Group made revenues of $1.84bn, a 9% increase on the previous year. Private prisons are a multibillion-dollar industry – and growing.

Take for example CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), the largest operator of private prisons in the U.S. In fewer than 20 years, it’s seen its revenue increase by more than 500 percent, from roughly $280 million in 2000, to $1.77 billion in 2017.

So is there a profit to be made off locking you up for petty offense? You betcha!

Everything our founding fathers warned us about, a standing army that would see American citizens as enemy combatants, is now the new norm folks! The government, local law enforcement now being an extension of the federal government, has trained its sights on the American people! We have become the enemy! And if it is true, as the military claims, that the key to defeating an enemy is having the technological advantage then “we the people” are at a severe disadvantage.

These troubling developments are the outward manifestation of an philosophical shift underway in how the government views not only the Constitution and the Bill of Rights but “we the people” as well. What this reflects is a move away from a government bound by the rule of law to one that seeks total control through the imposition of its own self-serving laws on the populace.

All the while the American people remain largely oblivious to the looming threats to their freedoms, eager to be persuaded that the government can solve any problem that plagues us, whether it be terrorism, an economic depression, an environmental disaster, or a v***l p******c. As Hillary once said never let a crisis go to waste. And the squalor in DC doesn’t miss a trick!

Welcome to the Police State!
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd

What problems do we solve when we shoot a man in the back for sleeping in a Wendy’s drive thru because police agitated the situation to begin with? Where do the police go from here after they choked out G****e F***d? What problem was solved there? We can go on and on with police murders over the past 40 to 50 years, but I think you get the picture.

“This is not a new world: it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advancements, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy, and t***h is a menace.” – Rod Serling. Twilight Zone

How do you get a nation to become so docile that it accepts a police state? How do you get a populace to accept metal detectors and pat downs in their schools, bag searches in their train stations & airports with full body scans, tanks and military weaponry used by small town police forces, surveillance cameras on their traffic lights, police strip searches on their public roads, unwarranted and forced blood draws at DUI checkpoints on holidays, and government agents monitoring their communications?

While ramming all this down the public's throat you just might, at some point, find yourself with a r*******n on your hands. Would you not? Instead, you bombard the citizenry with constant color coded alerts, terrorize them with with reports of shootings and bomb threats in malls, schools, and sports arenas, desensitize them with a steady diet of police violence, and mesmerizer them with entertainment spectacles and electronic devices, while selling the whole package to them as being in their best interests.

And when leaders like John Kennedy, Bob Kennedy, and Martin Luther King and others have rose up to challenge the government elite, what happened to them? Government agents pull surveillance on them, intimidate them, threaten them, and in some cases cause them to disappear, knowing full well that few will rise up to take their place.

Likewise, when government whistleblowers, lacking followers or name recognition, rise up and shine a light on government’s misdeeds, they are called t*****rs, isolated from their friends and loved ones, and made examples of. This is what happens to those who dare to challenge the deep state police state.

Fixing the Unfixable

What is most striking about the American police state is not the megacorporations running amok in the halls of Congress, the militarized police crashing through doors and shooting unarmed citizens, or the insane surveillance regime which has begun to dominate every aspect of our lives. Now what has become most disconcerting about the emergence of the American police state is the extent to which American citizens appear content to passively wait for someone else to solve the nations many problems.

Thing is if we do not act soon, all that is in need of fixing will soon be unfixable, especially as it relates to the police state that becomes more entrenched and aggressive with each passing day. I am referring to more than a society overrun by the long arm of the law, federal, state, and local. I am referring to a society in which all aspects of a person’s life are policed by government agents, one in which all citizens are suspects, their activities monitored and regulated, their movements tracked, their communications spied upon, and their lives, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, dependent on the government’s say-so.

We Are the Enemy

Indeed, as the continued militarization of the police trends towards over-criminalization of the public, it will not be long before average law abiding citizens are breaking laws they did not even know existed. Like now in some places you cannot collect rainwater to water your lawn, light up a cig in the privacy of your own home, meet with friends for Sunday evening Bible study in your backyard, or be stopped like I was for expired tags, handcuffed taken down to the police station and license taken away, car impounded until I paid for new tags, with a penalty no doubt!

The outlook for civil liberties grow bleaker by the day, from the governments embrace of indefinite detention for US citizens and armed spy drones creeping overhead, to warrantless searches of phone, email, and Internet and prosecutions of government whistleblowers.

Meanwhile, the homeland is ruled by a police industrial complex, as an extension of the military industrial empire complete now with private prisons. Private prisons in the United States incarcerated 121,718 people in 2017, representing 8.2% of the total state and federal prison population. Since 2000, the number of people housed in private prisons has increased 39%. Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice show that, as of 2013, there were 133,000 state and federal prisoners housed in privately owned prisons in the U.S., constituting 8.4% of the overall U.S. prison population.

The prison industry as a whole took in over $5 billion in revenue in 2011. The companies making the most money from prisons in America are Geo Group and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which combined run more than 170 prisons and detention centers. CCA made revenues of $1.79bn in 2015, up from $1.65bn in 2014. Geo Group made revenues of $1.84bn, a 9% increase on the previous year. Private prisons are a multibillion-dollar industry – and growing.

Take for example CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), the largest operator of private prisons in the U.S. In fewer than 20 years, it’s seen its revenue increase by more than 500 percent, from roughly $280 million in 2000, to $1.77 billion in 2017.

So is there a profit to be made off locking you up for petty offense? You betcha!

Everything our founding fathers warned us about, a standing army that would see American citizens as enemy combatants, is now the new norm folks! The government, local law enforcement now being an extension of the federal government, has trained its sights on the American people! We have become the enemy! And if it is true, as the military claims, that the key to defeating an enemy is having the technological advantage then “we the people” are at a severe disadvantage.

These troubling developments are the outward manifestation of an philosophical shift underway in how the government views not only the Constitution and the Bill of Rights but “we the people” as well. What this reflects is a move away from a government bound by the rule of law to one that seeks total control through the imposition of its own self-serving laws on the populace.

All the while the American people remain largely oblivious to the looming threats to their freedoms, eager to be persuaded that the government can solve any problem that plagues us, whether it be terrorism, an economic depression, an environmental disaster, or a v***l p******c. As Hillary once said never let a crisis go to waste. And the squalor in DC doesn’t miss a trick!

Welcome to the Police State!
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd

What problems do we solve when we shoot a man in the back for sleeping in a Wendy’s drive thru because police agitated the situation to begin with? Where do the police go from here after they choked out G****e F***d? What problem was solved there? We can go on and on with police murders over the past 40 to 50 years, but I think you get the picture.

“This is not a new world: it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advancements, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy, and t***h is a menace.” – Rod Serling. Twilight Zone

How do you get a nation to become so docile that it accepts a police state? How do you get a populace to accept metal detectors and pat downs in their schools, bag searches in their train stations & airports with full body scans, tanks and military weaponry used by small town police forces, surveillance cameras on their traffic lights, police strip searches on their public roads, unwarranted and forced blood draws at DUI checkpoints on holidays, and government agents monitoring their communications?

While ramming all this down the public's throat you just might, at some point, find yourself with a r*******n on your hands. Would you not? Instead, you bombard the citizenry with constant color coded alerts, terrorize them with with reports of shootings and bomb threats in malls, schools, and sports arenas, desensitize them with a steady diet of police violence, and mesmerizer them with entertainment spectacles and electronic devices, while selling the whole package to them as being in their best interests.

And when leaders like John Kennedy, Bob Kennedy, and Martin Luther King and others have rose up to challenge the government elite, what happened to them? Government agents pull surveillance on them, intimidate them, threaten them, and in some cases cause them to disappear, knowing full well that few will rise up to take their place.

Likewise, when government whistleblowers, lacking followers or name recognition, rise up and shine a light on government’s misdeeds, they are called t*****rs, isolated from their friends and loved ones, and made examples of. This is what happens to those who dare to challenge the deep state police state.

Fixing the Unfixable

What is most striking about the American police state is not the megacorporations running amok in the halls of Congress, the militarized police crashing through doors and shooting unarmed citizens, or the insane surveillance regime which has begun to dominate every aspect of our lives. Now what has become most disconcerting about the emergence of the American police state is the extent to which American citizens appear content to passively wait for someone else to solve the nations many problems.

Thing is if we do not act soon, all that is in need of fixing will soon be unfixable, especially as it relates to the police state that becomes more entrenched and aggressive with each passing day. I am referring to more than a society overrun by the long arm of the law, federal, state, and local. I am referring to a society in which all aspects of a person’s life are policed by government agents, one in which all citizens are suspects, their activities monitored and regulated, their movements tracked, their communications spied upon, and their lives, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, dependent on the government’s say-so.

We Are the Enemy

Indeed, as the continued militarization of the police trends towards over-criminalization of the public, it will not be long before average law abiding citizens are breaking laws they did not even know existed. Like now in some places you cannot collect rainwater to water your lawn, light up a cig in the privacy of your own home, meet with friends for Sunday evening Bible study in your backyard, or be stopped like I was for expired tags, handcuffed taken down to the police station and license taken away, car impounded until I paid for new tags, with a penalty no doubt!

The outlook for civil liberties grow bleaker by the day, from the governments embrace of indefinite detention for US citizens and armed spy drones creeping overhead, to warrantless searches of phone, email, and Internet and prosecutions of government whistleblowers.

Meanwhile, the homeland is ruled by a police industrial complex, as an extension of the military industrial empire complete now with private prisons. Private prisons in the United States incarcerated 121,718 people in 2017, representing 8.2% of the total state and federal prison population. Since 2000, the number of people housed in private prisons has increased 39%. Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice show that, as of 2013, there were 133,000 state and federal prisoners housed in privately owned prisons in the U.S., constituting 8.4% of the overall U.S. prison population.

The prison industry as a whole took in over $5 billion in revenue in 2011. The companies making the most money from prisons in America are Geo Group and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which combined run more than 170 prisons and detention centers. CCA made revenues of $1.79bn in 2015, up from $1.65bn in 2014. Geo Group made revenues of $1.84bn, a 9% increase on the previous year. Private prisons are a multibillion-dollar industry – and growing.

Take for example CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), the largest operator of private prisons in the U.S. In fewer than 20 years, it’s seen its revenue increase by more than 500 percent, from roughly $280 million in 2000, to $1.77 billion in 2017.

So is there a profit to be made off locking you up for petty offense? You betcha!

Everything our founding fathers warned us about, a standing army that would see American citizens as enemy combatants, is now the new norm folks! The government, local law enforcement now being an extension of the federal government, has trained its sights on the American people! We have become the enemy! And if it is true, as the military claims, that the key to defeating an enemy is having the technological advantage then “we the people” are at a severe disadvantage.

These troubling developments are the outward manifestation of an philosophical shift underway in how the government views not only the Constitution and the Bill of Rights but “we the people” as well. What this reflects is a move away from a government bound by the rule of law to one that seeks total control through the imposition of its own self-serving laws on the populace.

All the while the American people remain largely oblivious to the looming threats to their freedoms, eager to be persuaded that the government can solve any problem that plagues us, whether it be terrorism, an economic depression, an environmental disaster, or a v***l p******c. As Hillary once said never let a crisis go to waste. And the squalor in DC doesn’t miss a trick!

What is Gary K. trying to claim in his rant? Jumping on the "Police State" band wagon is popular these days.

To the point of "militarizing the police," criminals are using more, and better, technology every day. Do you wish for the police to be using muskets and black powder, single shot pistols?

The left over military equipment used by today's law enforcement is meant to keep the police, yes the police, safer. The police cannot do the thankless job of protecting civilized society from the mega-attitudes of hatred for the police while criminal elements like gangsters and cartels run roughshod over the civilian population.

He is right about the federal government controlling too much of our lives. We are heading for very tough times in as much as we want our freedom but are surrounded by a world of threats form people that want to, and will, k**l us at the first chance. That is not a true example of a police state. It is an example of the prison we have put ourselves in trying to avoid death from outside of our borders, and now, within.

Some Americans are oblivious to the looming threats to their freedoms. Some are not. As for not wasting a good crisis and the squalor in D.C., if the socialist democrats take control, you can kiss all of your rights goodbye. And militarized federal police will be driving up and down your streets.

Welcome to the Police State!
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd

What problems do we solve when we shoot a man in the back for sleeping in a Wendy’s drive thru because police agitated the situation to begin with? Where do the police go from here after they choked out G****e F***d? What problem was solved there? We can go on and on with police murders over the past 40 to 50 years, but I think you get the picture.

“This is not a new world: it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advancements, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy, and t***h is a menace.” – Rod Serling. Twilight Zone

How do you get a nation to become so docile that it accepts a polAnd the squalor in DC ice state? How do you get a populace to accept metal detectors and pat downs in their schools, bag searches in their train stations & airports with full body scans, tanks and military weaponry used by small town police forces, surveillance cameras on their traffic lights, police strip searches on their public roads, unwarranted and forced blood draws at DUI checkpoints on holidays, and government agents monitoring their communications?

While ramming all this down the public's throat you just might, at some point, find yourself with a r*******n on your hands. Would you not? Instead, you bombard the citizenry with constant color coded alerts, terrorize them with with reports of shootings and bomb threats in malls, schools, and sports arenas, desensitize them with a steady diet of police violence, and mesmerizer them with entertainment spectacles and electronic devices, while selling the whole package to them as being in their best interests.

And when leaders like John Kennedy, Bob Kennedy, and Martin Luther King and others have rose up to challenge the government elite, what happened to them? Government agents pull surveillance on them, intimidate them, threaten them, and in some cases cause them to disappear, knowing full well that few will rise up to take their place.

Likewise, when government whistleblowers, lacking followers or name recognition, rise up and shine a light on government’s misdeeds, they are called t*****rs, isolated from their friends and loved ones, and made examples of. This is what happens to those who dare to challenge the deep state police state.

Fixing the Unfixable

What is most striking about the American police state is not the megacorporations running amok in the halls of Congress, the militarized police crashing through doors and shooting unarmed citizens, or the insane surveillance regime which has begun to dominate every aspect of our lives. Now what has become most disconcerting about the emergence of the American police state is the extent to which American citizens appear content to passively wait for someone else to solve the nations many problems.

Thing is if we do not act soon, all that is in need of fixing will soon be unfixable, especially as it relates to the police state that becomes more entrenched and aggressive with each passing day. I am referring to more than a society overrun by the long arm of the law, federal, state, and local. I am referring to a society in which all aspects of a person’s life are policed by government agents, one in which all citizens are suspects, their activities monitored and regulated, their movements tracked, their communications spied upon, and their lives, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, dependent on the government’s say-so.

We Are the Enemy

Indeed, as the continued militarization of the police trends towards over-criminalization of the public, it will not be long before average law abiding citizens are breaking laws they did not even know existed. Like now in some places you cannot collect rainwater to water your lawn, light up a cig in the privacy of your own home, meet with friends for Sunday evening Bible study in your backyard, or be stopped like I was for expired tags, handcuffed taken down to the police station and license taken away, car impounded until I paid for new tags, with a penalty no doubt!

The outlook for civil liberties grow bleaker by the day, from the governments embrace of indefinite detention for US citizens and armed spy drones creeping overhead, to warrantless searches of phone, email, and Internet and prosecutions of government whistleblowers.

Meanwhile, the homeland is ruled by a police industrial complex, as an extension of the military industrial empire complete now with private prisons. Private prisons in the United States incarcerated 121,718 people in 2017, representing 8.2% of the total state and federal prison population. Since 2000, the number of people housed in private prisons has increased 39%. Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice show that, as of 2013, there were 133,000 state and federal prisoners housed in privately owned prisons in the U.S., constituting 8.4% of the overall U.S. prison population.
And the squalor in DC
The prison industry as a whole took in over $5 billion in revenue in 2011. The companies making the most money from prisons in America are Geo Group and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which combined run more than 170 prisons and detention centers. CCA made revenues of $1.79bn in 2015, up from $1.65bn in 2014. Geo Group made revenues of $1.84bn, a 9% increase on the previous year. Private prisons are a multibillion-dollar industry – and growing.

Take for example CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), the largest operator of private prisons in the U.S. In fewer than 20 years, it’s seen its revenue increase by more than 500 percent, from roughly $280 million in 2000, to $1.77 billion in 2017.

So is there a profit to be made off locking you up for petty offense? You betcha!

Everything our founding fathers warned us about, a standing army that would see American citizens as enemy combatants, is now the new norm folks! The government, local law enforcement now being an extension of the federal government, has trained its sights on the American people! We have become the enemy! And if it is true, as the military claims, that the key to defeating an enemy is having the technological advantage then “we the people” are at a severe disadvantage.

These troubling developments are the outward manifestation of an philosophical shift underway in how the government views not only the Constitution and the Bill of Rights but “we the people” as well. What this reflects is a move away from a government bound by the rule of law to one that seeks total control through the imposition of its own self-serving laws on the populace.

All the while the American people remain largely oblivious to the looming threats to their freedoms, eager to be persuaded that the government can solve any problem that plagues us, whether it be terrorism, an economic depression, an environmental disaster, or a v***l p******c. As Hillary once said never let a crisis go to waste. And the squalor in DC doesn’t miss a trick!

Welcome to the Police State!
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd

What problems do we solve when we shoot a man in the back for sleeping in a Wendy’s drive thru because police agitated the situation to begin with? Where do the police go from here after they choked out G****e F***d? What problem was solved there? We can go on and on with police murders over the past 40 to 50 years, but I think you get the picture.

“This is not a new world: it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advancements, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy, and t***h is a menace.” – Rod Serling. Twilight Zone

How do you get a nation to become so docile that it accepts a police state? How do you get a populace to accept metal detectors and pat downs in their schools, bag searches in their train stations & airports with full body scans, tanks and military weaponry used by small town police forces, surveillance cameras on their traffic lights, police strip searches on their public roads, unwarranted and forced blood draws at DUI checkpoints on holidays, and government agents monitoring their communications?

While ramming all this down the public's throat you just might, at some point, find yourself with a r*******n on your hands. Would you not? Instead, you bombard the citizenry with constant color coded alerts, terrorize them with with reports of shootings and bomb threats in malls, schools, and sports arenas, desensitize them with a steady diet of police violence, and mesmerizer them with entertainment spectacles and electronic devices, while selling the whole package to them as being in their best interests.

And when leaders like John Kennedy, Bob Kennedy, and Martin Luther King and others have rose up to challenge the government elite, what happened to them? Government agents pull surveillance on them, intimidate them, threaten them, and in some cases cause them to disappear, knowing full well that few will rise up to take their place.

Likewise, when government whistleblowers, lacking followers or name recognition, rise up and shine a light on government’s misdeeds, they are called t*****rs, isolated from their friends and loved ones, and made examples of. This is what happens to those who dare to challenge the deep state police state.

Fixing the Unfixable

What is most striking about the American police state is not the megacorporations running amok in the halls of Congress, the militarized police crashing through doors and shooting unarmed citizens, or the insane surveillance regime which has begun to dominate every aspect of our lives. Now what has become most disconcerting about the emergence of the American police state is the extent to which American citizens appear content to passively wait for someone else to solve the nations many problems.

Thing is if we do not act soon, all that is in need of fixing will soon be unfixable, especially as it relates to the police state that becomes more entrenched and aggressive with each passing day. I am referring to more than a society overrun by the long arm of the law, federal, state, and local. I am referring to a society in which all aspects of a person’s life are policed by government agents, one in which all citizens are suspects, their activities monitored and regulated, their movements tracked, their communications spied upon, and their lives, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, dependent on the government’s say-so.

We Are the Enemy

Indeed, as the continued militarization of the police trends towards over-criminalization of the public, it will not be long before average law abiding citizens are breaking laws they did not even know existed. Like now in some places you cannot collect rainwater to water your lawn, light up a cig in the privacy of your own home, meet with friends for Sunday evening Bible study in your backyard, or be stopped like I was for expired tags, handcuffed taken down to the police station and license taken away, car impounded until I paid for new tags, with a penalty no doubt!

The outlook for civil liberties grow bleaker by the day, from the governments embrace of indefinite detention for US citizens and armed spy drones creeping overhead, to warrantless searches of phone, email, and Internet and prosecutions of government whistleblowers.

Meanwhile, the homeland is ruled by a police industrial complex, as an extension of the military industrial empire complete now with private prisons. Private prisons in the United States incarcerated 121,718 people in 2017, representing 8.2% of the total state and federal prison population. Since 2000, the number of people housed in private prisons has increased 39%. Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice show that, as of 2013, there were 133,000 state and federal prisoners housed in privately owned prisons in the U.S., constituting 8.4% of the overall U.S. prison population.

The prison industry as a whole took in over $5 billion in revenue in 2011. The companies making the most money from prisons in America are Geo Group and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which combined run more than 170 prisons and detention centers. CCA made revenues of $1.79bn in 2015, up from $1.65bn in 2014. Geo Group made revenues of $1.84bn, a 9% increase on the previous year. Private prisons are a multibillion-dollar industry – and growing.

Take for example CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), the largest operator of private prisons in the U.S. In fewer than 20 years, it’s seen its revenue increase by more than 500 percent, from roughly $280 million in 2000, to $1.77 billion in 2017.

So is there a profit to be made off locking you up for petty offense? You betcha!

Everything our founding fathers warned us about, a standing army that would see American citizens as enemy combatants, is now the new norm folks! The government, local law enforcement now being an extension of the federal government, has trained its sights on the American people! We have become the enemy! And if it is true, as the military claims, that the key to defeating an enemy is having the technological advantage then “we the people” are at a severe disadvantage.

These troubling developments are the outward manifestation of an philosophical shift underway in how the government views not only the Constitution and the Bill of Rights but “we the people” as well. What this reflects is a move away from a government bound by the rule of law to one that seeks total control through the imposition of its own self-serving laws on the populace.

All the while the American people remain largely oblivious to the looming threats to their freedoms, eager to be persuaded that the government can solve any problem that plagues us, whether it be terrorism, an economic depression, an environmental disaster, or a v***l p******c. As Hillary once said never let a crisis go to waste. And the squalor in DC doesn’t miss a trick!

What is Gary K. trying to claim in his rant? Jumping on the "Police State" band wagon is popular these days.

To the point of "militarizing the police," criminals are using more, and better, technology every day. Do you wish for the police to be using muskets and black powder, single shot pistols?

The left over military equipment used by today's law enforcement is meant to keep the police, yes the police, safer. The police cannot do the thankless job of protecting civilized society from the mega-attitudes of hatred for the police while criminal elements like gangsters and cartels run roughshod over the civilian population.

He is right about the federal government controlling too much of our lives. We are heading for very tough times in as much as we want our freedom but are surrounded by a world of threats form people that want to, and will, k**l us at the first chance. That is not a true example of a police state. It is an example of the prison we have put ourselves in trying to avoid death from outside of our borders, and now, within.

Some Americans are oblivious to the looming threats to their freedoms. Some are not. As for not wasting a good crisis and the squalor in D.C., if the socialist democrats take control, you can kiss all of your rights goodbye. And militarized federal police will be driving up and down your streets.