"The Police State Is Closer Than You Think"


Government is not your friend
Paul Craig Roberts writes a thought provoking piece at LewRockwell.com.

These new "seize and hold" powers strip the accused of the protective aspects of law and give rein to selectivity and arbitrariness. No warrant is required for arrest, no charges have to be presented before a judge, and no case has to be put before a jury. As the police are unaccountable, whoever is selected for arrest is at the mercy of arbitrariness.

The judiciary has to some extent defended habeas corpus against Bush’s attack, but the protection that the principle offers against arbitrary seizure and detention has been breached. Whether courts can fully restore habeas corpus or whether it continues in weakened form or passes by the wayside remains to be determined.

Americans may be unaware of what it means to be stripped of the protection of habeas corpus, or they may think police authorities would never make a mistake or ever use their unbridled power against the innocent. Americans might think that the police state will only use its powers against terrorists or "enemy combatants."

Please don't mistake this for something that George Bush or the Republicans started. This is a government thing, not a party thing. Remember that it was Bill Clinton who signed the Brady Bill into law while simultaneously arming a record number of Federal agents from all agencies and "cracking down" on the militia movement.

I'm still trying to figure out why agents of the Bureau of Land Management needed guns.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - October 10, 2005 at 05:05 AM  Tag


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