1. Fed.Gov asked for and received extreme LE tools like no knock warrants, tactical teams for every pea dick local pd department in America armed and outfitted to a degree that our soldiers and marines knocking down doors in Iraq didn't even come close to having, which we were told was only going to be used against "The dangerous high level smuggling and distribution networks run by by criminal syndicates, not against your average pot dealer."
2. Slowly but surely, the high level drug network in America, run by different groups in different regions of the country, when dope came in all points all over the country, and operated independant of one another, was taken down and quickly replaced with the more organized, more professional, more dangerous, Latino network which efficiently transports EVERY single bit of cocaine and Ice across the wide open border and distributes it nationwide with no interruption in the 20+ years since.
3. While the above nationwide Latino syndicate functions every day in America, staffed by the "Dangerous Criminal element in nationwide organized drug rings" unmolested by LE, the no knock warrants and delta force outiftted tactical teams are used used in chickenshit raids against Americans for reasons that come nowhere near meeting the need of that level of force, often ending tragically like the marine in Arizona.
4. While the local drug units, tactical entry units, and the millions of dollars worth of expensive toys have been used to fill American jails and probation rolls with low rent, low rung, two bit drug hustlers that have never been convicted of a violent crime, while our rights have been pissed on over the WOD....the Latino syndicate that runs the nationwide drug distribution runs like a clock untouched.
Hmmm...almost like it was planned that way.
Government, although made up of well meaning people (I like to think so), is an entity unto itself. It is a self feeding organism. Government exists to empower itself.
The founders knew that people and government were fundamentally evil. So they tried to castrate it. They used enumerated powers. They said the Government can only do this short list of things.
We have spent 230 years dismantling enumerated powers. Look how quick TXdal was to give up the 4th and the 2nd. All that had to happen was he had to feel “unsafe”.
I wonder if the patriots at Concord and Lexington felt “unsafe”? Concord and Lexington was all about the 2nd Amendment and the 4th Amendment. The King came to get the guns. The citizens objected. They didn’t want the King taking their guns, and they didn’t want the king searching for their guns. So they shot back. 4th and 2nd.