It Has Happened Here - The Police State is Real

[Peter Lemkin]

It Has Happened Here
The police state is real
By Paul Craig Roberts

Ironic, isn't it, that the president of the United States now murders his political
opponents just as Saddam Hussein murdered his. How long before critics move from
the no-fly list to the extermination list?

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For most Americans, it is the boil frog phenomenon. They have missed the OBVIOUS clues and cues of the creeping [at alarming speed] of fascism/police state/totalitarianism - call it what you will. I had my own personal 'wake up call' long ago...when while camping with my dog in a tent in a public campground I was [upon coming out of my tent in the morning to urinate] told to 'FREEZE-HANDS UP!' with four [4] guns pointed right at my head. I was then handcuffed, CHAINED handcuffs to ankles and bundled off to a FEDERAL prison to await seeing a Judge - no information as to why I was arrested offered until I saw the Judge 3.5 days later [arrest was timed to leave a weekend and holiday for maximum 'effect'. I shared a prison cell with a man who had been arrested and convicted on 'three strikes' for a grass deal he didn't do...he was set up, and the other two offenses were so minor as to be a joke...except he was now facing 50 years for something he did not do, and spent most of the time asking me [when he found out I'd studied toxicology] if X or Y would be good to commit suicide with...the effects and timeline to death, etc. Very sad. I was lucky with the Judge I got...SHE was fair and liberal. The arresting officer cited an obscure part of the unPatriot Act....stating that it was illegal for an American to camp on Federal Lands without a domicile more than a few days. [A visiting foreigner could...but not an American]. I knew my past work with Plumlee and others; my research on JFK/state crimes etc. was the real reason and my car's license plates had triggered something for the officers involved - thought they later claimed not to know anything about my past - only that there was some mention of me in the computer system. The Judge heard about my education and family - past work as a Governor's aide [Governor of THAT state i was arrested in!] and dismissed the whole thing....but I was subjected to a three day hell in the Federal prison, iris scanned and roughed up/mistreated and more. When I got back to my tent [8 hours away and the prison doesn't give you your money - it gives you a check and it was then past banking hours!] my tent had been driven over by a large power mower. It took me months to sue the government of the USA. I won and waited for money for a new tent....it never came and it never will. The check was issued and the USG paid it to itself - It took more months to learn the Feds had a financial lien on me I didn't even know about. There is more...but enough for a public forum. It is a police state now. That was long ago...and before that I had death threats nightly and then all my money seized and all my property on trumped up charges. Lawyers quit before trial....every horror one can imagine. I went from San Diego seaside condo to living in my car; then after a bench warrant that was outrageous - fleeing the state entirely until things were resolved - but not in my favor. The fix was in. If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone and does, regularly - much worse - death. Sorry to wax personal...but for me the police state is not theoretical. It touched me more than I ever expected and it could again.