December 20, 2020
This courtesy of Steven Schueler:
So You Think Tyranny Can't Happen Here
This is a win/win for the statists. They promote a militarization of the civilian police then said police kill innocent or at least not guilty people, which spurs movements like Black Lives Matter (which makes the incorrect assumption that it is a racial thing) which leads to calls to defund the police which leads to more actual crime which in the end leads to more police power. It's a machine for increasing the iron boot of the State.
The best way to enslave a society is to first create anarchy.
From the article:
When discussing government overreach, which incidentally continues unimpeded, or the danger of the monopoly of force concentrated in the hands of government in the way of law enforcement, especially from federal police and particularly the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), I’m frequently told that if one has done nothing wrong there is nothing to fear from government. And when I describe my first-hand experience in Cuba, or relate events from my studies of communism in the former USSR, China, Cambodia, Venezuela, and the Eastern European satellite states, I’m told, "But Dr. Faria, such cruelty and tyranny can happen in third-world countries, but it cannot happen here. This is America.â€
I respond, "Really? Have you heard, or rather read, of the story of David Koresh and the Waco, Texas, massacreof innocents by the ATF and the FBI?†I say read, because almost all of
the victims — men, women and children, and Koresh himself — are dead at
the hands of the federal police. One only has to look at this issue a
bit more closely to ascertain the deadly implications of just such a
naive attitude.
Unfortunately, there are many more cases that have been swept under the rug by the media through insufficient or biased coverage. Of course, there was the well-known 1992 case of Vicky and Samuel Weaver (her 14-year-old son) killed at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. But there were also the many incidents of lesser known Americans.
There was Carl Drega who was driven to criminal insanity and murder by government and bureaucratic injustice. There was the totally innocent John Gerald Quinn, whose home was subjected to a "no-knock†raid (once referred to as "dynamic entryâ€).
There are many lawful American gun owners who over the years have been victimized by the errors or excesses of the ATF or for firearm misdemeanors or technicalities. People such as Bruce Abramski, who was prosecuted for an alleged straw purchaseand has filed a lawsuit against the state. I will not go into the war on drugs for that is another area that needs closer inspection. Suffice it to say, many Americans have been apprehended, shot and killed for violating drug laws, even in the supposed safety of their own homes.
I have written about the dangerous trend toward the militarization of the police.In 2015 in a little-known case, two Idaho deputies killed Jack Yantis, a cattle rancher who had rushed to the scene where one of his bulls had been injured in a car crash. No matter the particulars of this incident, it should never have happened.
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