The War on Us (Police State America)

http://the-american-catholic.com ^ | October 29, 2019 | Donald R. McClarey

[NKP_Vet]

Back in the Eighties, when the Time-Life series on the Civil War was coming out, there was a dramatic ad with a Civil War soldier pointing a musket at the reader. The ad said: “If the battle of Gettysburg were fought today, you would be the enemy.” Increasingly many Americans, most, but not all, conservative and/or religious, are being treated as enemies to be subdued by their own government. Angelo M. Codevilla in a brilliant post at the Library of Liberty and Law faces the issue squarely:

Increasingly, the US government’s many police forces (often state and local ones as well) operate militarily and are trained to treat ordinary citizens as enemies. At the same time, the people from whom the government personnel take their cues routinely describe those who differ from them socially and politically as illegitimate, criminal, even terrorists. Though these developments have separate roots, the post-9/11 state of no-win war against anonymous enemies has given them momentum. The longer it goes on, the more they converge and set in motion a spiral of civil strife all too well known in history, a spiral ever more difficult to stop short of civil war. Even now ordinary Americans are liable to being disadvantaged, hurt or even killed by their government as never before.

[DuncanWaring]

A little while ago I saw a couple of guys who, from their attire, I suspected to be “Civil War Reenactors”.

The thought then passed through my head “In the not-too-distant future, there are going to be a lot more Civil War Reenactors, most of whom didn’t expect to be, and who desperately wish they weren’t.”.

[fella]

Direct Link to the source.

[imardmd1]

This is simply government of the terrorists, by the terrorists, and for the terrorists. What’s the problem? /s

[Boogieman]

Nobody is going to stop it, I fear, because on both political sides, there are plenty of short-sighted people who are gleeful about using the power of the state against their enemies.

[The Old Commander]

But there is a big difference. These are civilian pseudo soldiers . They and their families do not live in barracks but in neighborhoods with us. It is difficult to terrorize the peasants when we know where they live. These pseudo soldiers will have to make a decision as to the value of their lives vs. the value of their pay.

[Paladin2]

I like this meme in this article.

"Dept of Provocation"

Like the National Provocation Service (NPS).

[DuncanWaring]

Increasingly, the US government’s many police forces (often state and local ones as well) operate militarily ...

That's one way of getting around the inconvenient "Posse Comitatus" law.

[FBD]

Good article. Bump to the top