In the former Soviet Union, one of the first Secret Police organizations was called the CHEKA (In Cyrillic: Чека). This organization, formed in 1917, was an unaccountable ‘police’ force intended to repress any of the opponents of Communism. They ran the Soviet GULAG; they conducted mass arrests; they put down rebellions of the citizenry against the new Communist rulers. America, in the last decade or so, has drifted slowly to a society more in line with what the Soviet Union implemented, then a society based on the personal freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights. I even have a quip,...
