The American Police State

Like it or not the USA is rapidly becoming a police state to rival the old Soviet empire. With the US courts eliminating our Fourth Amendment rights, constant video taping, and police killing citizens we are looking more like one of the 'banana republics' we so like to make fun of. The 10th Circuit Court has issued over 200 'sneak and peek' search warrants, which enable law enforcement to enter your home or business, search through your belongings, and not inform you that the search ever happened, much less what they were searching for, this clearly violates the letter and spirit of the 4th Amendment. And in Indiana the courts were more blatant: Read this, from Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven David: “A right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.”

As one of the two dissenting judges wrote, the ruling “sweeps with far too broad a brush by essentially telling Indiana citizens that government agents may now enter their homes illegally – that is, without the necessity of a warrant, consent or exigent circumstances.”

And it gets worse:FEMA is preparing a list of farms and what they produce so that in 'case of emergency' they know where to come to confiscate (government jargon for stealing) the farmers crops.
Local police are regularly killing honest citizens: Detroit police shot and killed a seven-year-old girl during an early morning raid of a home on the city’s east side Sunday morning. The child, Aiyana Stanley Jones, was struck in the head and neck area while sleeping on a couch at the home on Lillibridge Street.

"Vanessa Guerena thought the gunman might be part of a home invasion -- especially because two members of her sister-in-law's family, Cynthia and Manny Orozco, were killed last year in their Tucson home, her lawyer, Chris Scileppi, said. She shouted for her husband in the next room, and he woke up and told his wife to hide in the closet with the child, Joel, 4.
SWAT officers fired at least 71 shots at suspect Jose Guerena, a former U.S. Marine, and a family struggles to put the pieces together. Guerena grabbed his assault rifle and was pointing it at the SWAT team, which was trying to serve a narcotics search warrant as part of a multi-house drug crackdown, when the team broke down the door. At first the Pima County Sheriff's Office said that Guerena fired first, but on Wednesday officials backtracked and said he had not. "The safety was on and he could not fire," according to the sheriff's statement."

DeAuntae Farrow, 12, who was shot twice by a West Memphis police officer just over a week ago was laid to rest over the weekend. The accused officer said Farrow was playing with a toy gun, which he mistook as real.

When Tony Arambula managed to corner an armed intruder in his son's bedroom he expected police to come to his aid.

Instead, a Phoenix police officer confused Arambula for the intruder and shot him six times before realizing his mistake, a moment captured on the 911 call with a simple "F**k."

Even after realizing their mistake, Arambula said he was treated roughly, being dragged out of the house and transported briefly on the hood of a police car.

Now Arambula, 35, who survived but faces a lifetime of pain, is suing the city of Phoenix and the officers who responded to his house that night.

The lawsuit, filed in Maricopa County Court, alleges that Phoenix Police Officer Brian Lilly and his on-scene supervisor, Sgt. Sean Coutts, quickly conspired to cover up the mistake, not realizing that 911 was still recording Arambula's call for help.

We the people have to know what is going on and hold the government accountable. We have to be responsible for governing ourselves, as our founders intended, or we will return to the tyranny our founders fought against. Now is the time for ballots, not bullets; for reason, not action; for preperation for when the wolves vote on what is for dinner.