Freedom Lawyers of America

All too frequently, I read at American web sites of the "danger" that
the USA "might" or "could become" a police state. This is proof, if
any be needed, that even supposedly libertarian Americans live in a
mental and emotional La-La Land.

The United States of America has been a police state for many decades
already, (if not even since at least 1861). The establishment of the
FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the DEA, the BATF, and now the OHS and TIPS are
not the work of anything other than a police state. That the situation
grows worse all the time does not mean that there is a "danger" of a
police state, but that such entities always progress in just this
manner.

The attack on the Move House in Philadelphia many years ago was not
the normal enforcement of municipal bylaws. The attacks at Ruby Ridge
and Waco were not "humanitarian interventions". The idiots who harass
you at the airport are not civil libertarians. The fact that there is
a "relatively free market" (i.e. a very unfree and controlled market)
does not make the USA "still the greatest country in the world" as
Yanks so often reassure themselves.

The saying that "nobody ever went broke underestimating the
intelligence of the American people" is demonstrably true. The
emotional appeal of The Flag and the Star Spangled Banana and all the
rousing militaristic Sousa marches must not be underestimated.
Americans are suckers for nationalism, and they will salute the silly
feudal banner and sing the national anthem while wondering if the USA
is "in danger of becoming a police state". I suppose that citizens of
the Third Reich worried about that, too.

In the interests of clearing up the confusion, I'll make the following
observation: Jan "the man" Reno is running for governor of Florida,
even as I type. This is the individual who took "full responsibility"
for the deliberate mass murder of innocent women and children at Waco,
Texas, on the pretext of serving a warrant for a minor violation of a
firearms registration law. She did this in her (then) capacity as the
highest-ranking law enforcement officer of the federal state. She has
never faced a single charge for these murders.

Now the evil bitch is openly campaigning to become gauleiter of the
Sunshine State. This could only happen in a police state. In any other
kind of nation such an individual would be kept under lock and key; in
the USA, Charlie Sheen is out shilling for this fascist demon.

Despite these current events, apologists for the US Reich can only
bleat that The Land of the Free and The Home of the Brave is not a
police state, since the process is not yet complete; "After all,
people are still able to move about [relatively] freely and you can
[still] say what you want [so far, and within limits], right?"

If an alligator is chewing off your foot you aren't dead yet either.
So why worry that it will continue to eat you? After all, it might
become satiated soon.

Then again, you-all, it just might not.

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It is time to update a famous quote from Rev. Martin Niemoller, commenting on events in Germany 1933-1939 said:

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and
I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time, no one was left to
speak up." -- Rev. Dr. Martin Niemoeller, July 1,
1937; arrested by the Third Reich
An update of this concept, with the United States in mind, would go like this:

"First they burned the house of the Symbionese Liberation Army and killed all of their members. Most of us did not object because we did not believe in the same things as the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Then they dropped a bomb on the building of the Philadelphia MOVE group, and destroyed two city blocks, and killed 11 members. Most of us did not object because we did not believe in the same things as the MOVE group.

Then they burned the house of Gordon Kahl, a tax protester, and killed him. Most of us did not object because we did not believe in the same things as Gordon Kahl.

Then they burned the house of Robert Matthews, leader of "The Order," and killed him. Most of us did not object because we did not believe in the same things as Robert Matthews.

Then they conducted a siege and a raid of 80-member Covenant of the Sword and Arm of the Lord religious group. Most of us did not object because we did not believe in the same things as the Covenant of the Sword and Arm of the Lord.

Then they conducted a siege and a raid of Randy Weaver's family, and killed or wounded nearly everyone present; even including a baby and the dog. Many of us did not object because we did not believe in the same things as Randy Weaver's family.

Then they burned the church of the Branch Davidians and killed nearly all of them. A few of us did not object because we did not believe in the same things as the Branch Davidians."