Every major police force in the U.S. is now being militarized. Part of the reason is the drug gangs and the terrorist threat but that also gave police forces the excuse and the money they needed to create their own army. In third world nations warlords have that type of power. Here it is drug gangs and police gangs and the attitude of both is it is us against them. When the “them” becomes the citizens you already have a local police state. That is now true in some areas of the U.S. but not in most rural areas. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that if the trend continues a police state is in our future.

With one word from the federal government based on some perceived threat all these heavily armed local police forces will become nationalized and there arises the official big police state. Right now all the big police forces are in training for their future police state role that everyone but the sheeple knows is inevitable.

Much can be determined about your own police force by how they treat the citizens. If they treat you as if you are guilty until proven innocent, If you get thrown on the ground instead of questioned. if they just break down your doors when they could have knocked (with some exceptions), if a gun is pointed at you and you are unarmed, if they have road check points looking for anything they can find, if they pull you over for a minor infraction and then ask to search your vehicle, If they want to search your vehicle and the only option you are given to refuse is a vehicle impoundment, if they travel in packs like a gang, if they look like storm troopers when on routine patrol, etc. Then there is a good chance that you are already living in a police state.

American Chronicle | Americans Are Living (And Dying) In A Militarized Police State

Today, police departments across the United States more closely resemble an occupying army than they do public servants responding to calls for help. Police officers can now be seen wearing helmets and body armor and carrying AR-15’s, just to deliver simple warrants. The militarization of our police departments not only gives the appearance of a military dictatorship but places the public at great risk.

Many municipalities are using Homeland Security grants to even purchase large armored vehicles. The Pittsburgh Police Department now uses their 20-ton armored truck complete with rotating turret and gun ports to deliver many of their warrants. Pittsburgh Police Sgt. Barry Budd recently told the Associate Press: “We live on being prepared for ‘what if’.”

Our police departments now regularly receive free surplus equipment from the U.S. military, which they readily accept. The training being given at many police academies appears to be the type of tactics one would use in Baghdad, rather than Baltimore. It would seem that our police officers are being readied for war, with the American public as the enemy. In the last several years, there has been a transformation from community policing to pre-emptive assaults

SWAT teams were designed to deal with very violent individuals who represent a clear and present threat to the public. However, they are now being used to execute warrants on non-violent offenders and even those who have no prior criminal history at all. Turning our neighborhood cops into shock troops will do nothing but erode public confidence in the police and endanger the lives of innocent Americans.

Recently, Boston´s new police commissioner William Fitchet announced that the department´s Street Crimes Unit will begin wearing military-style black uniforms, to instill a sense of “fear.” At last week´s city council meeting, police Sgt. John Delaney told council members that the black uniforms would send the message that officers were serious.

Did someone declare martial law?

This article is certainly worth the read and I agree with about 90 percent of what Jim Schwiesow says in this article. But America cannot fulfill Revelation 18:7-8.

He is correct that there is no remedy for the downfall of the U.S. Because the majority of people in this nation simply wish to believe the demented lies of the amoral ungodly who have taken over the realms of power in this nation.

People in this nation will get what they want and what they deserve. Maybe they will come back to their senses one day after their human savior fails them and they find themselves on a sinking ship in dire straits. But then again I would not bet on American’s repenting and I think that all the kings men will not be able to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again.

The demise of America is inevitable unless there is some divine intervention that shakes this nation to its core.

Jim R. Schwiesow — Scarlet is Our Color

Time is fleeting and every second, minute, hour and day hurtles this nation closer to a time of retribution, a time so horrific that the mind cannot comprehend the magnitude of the fiery fury that will descend upon this nation and the people in it. The Eternal is moving against this country with purpose and terrible resolve, like small fingers of flame the preliminary pestilences signal a rapidly advancing holocaust.

The worst of heathen have come to possess the offices of our government, the halls of our institutions and the minds of our people. The land is in the terminal stages of a great spiritual disease. We are an adulterous people and a scarlet A has been emblazoned upon our land.

With regularity one hears it parroted that God’s blessings are upon this nation, those who give lip service only to the God of all creation continually wring their hands in despair over the removal of God from our coins, prayer from our schools and the Ten Commandments from our public institutions. One can only wonder where these same people were when sexual perversity and the teaching of social filthiness invaded our schools. Where were they when derelict and avaricious politicians and government agents incrementally and systematically dismantled the Constitution and destroyed the individual liberties of the people? Under what rock were they hiding when the killing of live babies was sanctioned and a host of soul killing perversions were institutionalized?

Why would a supposed God-fearing people allow such to come to pass? The truth is that the more than one-half of the people of this country who call themselves Christian, a great majority of which are ashamed to utter the name of Jesus Christ in public, have done more spiritual damage than the totality of the non-religious, the atheists and the agnostics who reside in the country.

The unrighteousness of our people, the moral degradation upon the nation, the rebellion against Almighty God and the rejection of His rule have brought us to the cusp of absolute destruction. Repent is not in our vocabulary and humility does not inhabit our soul, foolishness is forever on our lips and pride and arrogance mark our character.

The ignorance of our leaders and the delusion upon the people has made way for the institution of the elements of our own destruction.

Many have written to me and bewailed what they see as a failure by me and other columnists with NewsWithViews.com to provide solutions to the problems that we describe. They concede that we have accurately identified the degradation that it upon our nation, but they want someone to provide the answers that will deliver the nation from a seemingly imminent demise. The truth is that there are no secular solutions that will deliver this nation. No resolution other than a nationwide confession of sin and repentance thereof will save this nation.

This is what you can expect to happen when you let the control freaks run the funny farm.

What a load of rubbish!

A young, British mother is being forced to pay $524 because she impatiently placed her trash can at the curb a day early.

Zoe Watmough, 22, was hauled before judges and ordered to pay a hefty fine, reports the UK’s Daily Mail.

“I am flabbergasted,” Watmough said. “There are people committing all sorts of crimes and getting away with it. Yet I have left my bin out and have been fined the best part of £300.”

Officials from the Bolton Council in Greater Manchester detected her green recycling bin and gray garbage can on Wednesday – a full 24 hours before collection – but the council firmly dictates trash must not be taken out until after 7.30 a.m. on garbage day.

Government has created the cigarette smuggling problem. When government balances its budget on the backs of smokers because they are a minority and they can do it and still be reelected I would have no problem rationalizing buying smuggled cigarettes to keep these government bullies from robbing me (I am not a smoker). Government socialists who never seen a program they do not want to fund with our tax dollars and social engineer control freaks help create the crime syndicates through their tax polices and then they continually raise taxes to fight crime and warehouse the law breakers. Government has created a never ending spiral of more taxes and more crime.

Cigarette smuggling

While it’s politically popular to impose confiscatory taxes on America’s 40 million tobacco smokers, there are a number of consequences one might consider, but let’s start out with a quiz. If a carton of cigarettes sells for $160 in New York City, and $35 in North Carolina, what do you predict will happen? If you answered tons of cigarettes will be going up I-95 from North Carolina to New York City, go to the head of the class.

The easy solution to cigarette smuggling, and its attendant activities, is to eliminate the confiscatory taxes. Unfortunately, for politicians and do-gooders, the attack on smokers is a moral crusade that sees only benefits and costs are irrelevant. Or as novelist C.S. Lewis put it, “Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”

I do not know which is more demented, those who take part in a celebration of pot and rebellion or having laws that half of the nation have broken. Some people are doing hard time in prison as felons for use of marijuana in private while others openly flaunt it in public while law enforcement does nothing. You would think that society would get the message after fifty years of this. If you really want to control lusts of the flesh of sinful people you cannot have a free society. However, the world’s alternative brings repression and tyranny. The only solution for man is to put King Jesus on the throne.

CU’s 4/20 pot smoke-out draws crowd of 10,000 : CU News : Boulder Daily Camera

A crowd of about 10,000 people collectively began counting down on the University of Colorado’s Norlin Quadrangle just before 4:20 p.m. Sunday.

Yet the massive puff of pot smoke that hovers over CU’s Boulder campus every April 20 — the date of an annual, internationally recognized celebration of marijuana — began rising over the sea of heads earlier than normal this year.

Just the plain facts why it is not racism to fear black men. In spite of what Obama implied in his speech.

American Thinker: Typical White Fact-Based Reasoning

That is, the chance of just any person you see on the street murdering someone this year is about 5 of 100,000 (assuming you see a random sample of people). The same chance of a white person is 3.5 of 100,000. And the same chance for a black person is 19.7 of 100,000. That means a black person is 5.6 times more likely than a white person to be a murderer.It is totally rational for a any person (including Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama’s grandmother) to fear a black person more than a white one. In fact, you should fear them 5.6 times more.

There is no question that there is a minority segment of blacks in this nation who blame whites for everything just like Pastor Wright. I am sure his church attracted all in the area that wanted a pastor expressing their own hate. The real question is why would Americans elect to President someone who identifies with a racist hate Church and a hate pastor. To say this is the black culture is only true if you are part of that minority segment of the black culture. There is a larger black culture that does not hate so why not join with them? Why identify with the radicals unless you identify with them?

Even Obama’s agenda shows hate for the unborn. His Marxist like socialism shows his hate for the American system where people succeed through their effort and hard work and not by government preference programs and quotas.

Frankly, blacks today get preferences over whites in everything. If there is any anger coming from whites today against blacks it is not because of there skin shade. It is because many are handed opportunities that they never worked for or that are unavailable to whites. Other blacks have rejected civil society and they embrace a criminal counterculture that is destroying society. Still other blacks put in leadership positions those who are obviously racists.

Throw grandma under the bus

We treat blacks like children, constantly talking about their temper tantrums right in front of them with airy phrases about black anger. I will not pat blacks on the head and say, “Isn’t that cute?” As a post-racial American, I do not believe “the legacy of slavery” gives black people the right to be permanently ill-mannered.Obama tried to justify Wright’s deranged rants by explaining that “legalized discrimination” is the “reality in which Rev. Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up.” He said that a “lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one’s family, contributed to the erosion of black families.”

That may accurately describe the libretto of “Porgy and Bess,” but it has no connection to reality.

I do not agree with everything Frosty writes but I do see the hypocrisy in our marijuana laws. The same people who are busting people for marijuana are just as likely to be using it themselves in their own recreation time.

The costs to the nation of trying to enforce something that is not enforceable is huge. After over forty years of the DEA’s war on marijuana still over half the population of this nation uses it on one or more occasions and a significant population uses it regularly.

Millions have been imprisoned for doing nothing more than using a herb that is not anymore dangerous then many other herbs and substances that are perfectly legal. Certain people go to prison because they got caught while many high government officials and the rich and famous admit to the use of marijuana and are winked at.

It is police actions like this that fosters paranoia toward government enforcement agencies. The lucrative money in marijuana establishes illegal networks and gang wars over turf that get many people killed. These same networks then bring in harder drugs.

Marijuana laws are illogical. States cannot even agree on its enforcement. In one state it is a slap on the wrist to be in position of Marijuana and in another state it is a felony with a prison term that will ruin a persons life forever. It makes no sense.

Frosty Wooldridge — Marijuana Prohibition and Public Safety

“Many experts agree that the first drug to become legal and regulated will be marijuana. As DEA law judge Francis Young concluded after an exhaustive study of cannabis: “Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.” Its use has rarely been a public safety issue. One cannot overdose on it. Moreover, its legalization would be a tremendous boost to improve public safety. Why? Road officers spend million of hours searching cars for a baggie of pot. They could concentrate on the deadly DUI and reckless drivers. They would be re-directed to find and arrest the child predators on line looking for a 13 year old girl. Federal agents could completely focus on Al Qaeda and stop wasting time on medical marijuana gardens in California.”

Taxpayers are helping to fund rape of children because the government helps fund Planned Parenthood who will not report those who rape children as required by all state laws.

clipped from www.onenewsnow.com While speaking at the Blogs for Life Conference at the Family Research Council, Kline noted that Planned Parenthood admits in its own studies that it is servicing 13-year-old children — who have, on average, 22-year-old male sexual partners — who are predominantly in coercive sexual relationships. “[Planned Parenthood's] idea of treatment, of course, is to allow [that] relationship to continue,” explains Kline, “by either helping cover up the crime through an abortion, or providing birth control that will help conceal something later from revealing the crime.”

One mid level trader lost over $7 billion dollars for this bank!
The lack of oversight by this bank is criminal. All invested with this bank will pay for the loss. The leaders of this bank richly deserve my Demented Delusional or Dumb Club of the week award for their blind stupidity. Congradulations! You might wonder if the investments in your own bank really are safe.

clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com French bank Societe Generale said Thursday it has uncovered a $7.14 billion fraud — one of history’s biggest — by a single futures trader who orchestrated a series of bogus transactions. The fraud destabilized a major bank already exposed to the subprime crisis. France’s second largest bank by market value said it must seek 5.5 billion euros ($8.02 billion) in new capital

Hard-Core pornography is criminal and it should be treated that way by our law enforcement.

clipped from http://www.christianworldviewnetwork.com/article.php/2964/Matt_Barber In recent years, the U.S. Department of Justice has paid only lip service to the enforcement of federal obscenity laws. In some instances, DOJ has gone after child pornographers and — in a scant few cases — has prosecuted purveyors of the most obscene and graphic adult pornography. But unfortunately, the government has been largely AWOL when it comes to enforcing an entire section of U.S. law, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1460-1470,, which criminalizes much of the adult hard-core pornography that has saturated both the Internet and our communities. Although obscenity enforcement has not been a priority for the DOJ, it is a priority for most of the American people. A 2004 Wirthlin Worldwide opinion poll found that more than four out of five Americans want existing Internet obscenity laws vigorously enforced.

Lets see… Bhutto’s daughter took over for her old man and now her 19 year old son and her criminal husband is going to take over from her. Is this a democracy or a Mafia dynasty? Bhutto robbed billions from Pakistan and her husband is no slouch either . I suppose the US will not have any problem supporting woman, children and criminals to continue to lead Pakistan to “democracy”. What a Joke!

NAUDERO, Pakistan (AP) - Benazir Bhutto’s 19-year-old son—a student with no political experience—was named symbolic leader of her party Sunday, while her husband took effective control, extending Pakistan’s most enduring political dynasty. The major parties appeared to agree that the elections should take place as scheduled on Jan. 8 despite street violence and political turmoil triggered by the assassination of Bhutto. The Election Commission is to discuss the timing of the polls Monday. A successful vote would bolster U.S.-backed plans to restore democracy”

“The appointment of Bhutto’s husband, Asif Ali Zardari, was not without its own complications. A former Cabinet minister who spent eight years in prison on corruption accusations, he is known as “Mr. 10 Percent” for allegedly taking kickbacks and is viewed with suspicion by many Pakistanis.”

WorldNetDaily: Drugging the elderly into silence: “Have you ever walked through a nursing home and seen elderly patients slumped over, with their heads hanging low? My heart aches to see so many of our golden generation just passing time in a haze before they pass on.
When I discovered that many of these silver-haired saints are being drugged into a stupor, my heartache turned to anger. The heinous reality is, if nursing homes keep their patients drugged, they stand to reap benefits”

“The government is offering huge rewards to those who can show that a pharmaceutical company is promoting off-label uses for drugs or paying kickbacks. If you know of any specific instances of a pharmaceutical company engaging in this practice, such as in the nursing home context for antipsychotic drugs, then stand up and report it. You just might be standing up for someone who cannot even lift his or her head without your help. Achieving that certainly warrants a significant monetary reward.”

The ‘Concerned Local Citizens’ Program Grows into a Bona-Fide Phenomenon - HUMAN EVENTS: “Called “basically a thumb in the eye of the Maliki government that won’t get its [act] together” by one American officer, the Concerned Local Citizens program puts ground-level security in the hands of the individual tribes and groups who need it most. Under the program’s coalition-crafted guidelines, members of individual tribes are allowed to arm themselves and to conduct their own security operations and patrols, provided that, among other requirements, they submit to the authority of Coalition and Iraqi Security forces.
The main premise behind the Concerned Local Citizens program is simply the belief that Iraqis as a whole oppose the militias and terrorist groups that have plagued Iraq for the last several years — and that citizen empowerment, backed by the coalition, will lead to a rejection of the forces that terrorize the civilian population in a given area.”

We need to implement that same concept in our own inner cities.

FOXNews.com - Border Patrol Agents Fire Tear Gas Over Border at Mexican Attackers - Local News News Articles National News US News: “The agency’s top official in San Diego, Mike Fisher, said agents are taking action because Mexican authorities have been slow to respond. When an attack happens, he said, American authorities often wait hours for them to come, and help usually never arrives.”

With houses right on the border innocent people are getting in the crossfire. Nevertheless, it is up to Mexico to establish order in their own country. So those who live on the border should ask thier own government why they are doing nothing to stop the civil violence. Another solution would be to move because you really cannot expect American border patrol agents to be attacked daily without responding to protect themselves.

The American Spectator: “Human Rights Watch last week made headlines denouncing the United States for jailing more people per capita than any other country. The U.S. incarceration rate is 751 per 100,000 residents, the highest such rate in the world. Justice Department figures show that at the end of 2006, more than 2.25 million persons were incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails, an all-time high.” So why are there so many felons in the U.S.?

Drug use. I addressed this issue in an article I wrote about our criminal justice system

LA Weekly - News - L.A. Gangs: Nine Miles and Spreading - Peter Landesman - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles: “L.A. Gangs: Nine Miles and Spreading
More codeless, arbitrary and brutal than ever… and coming to a neighborhood near you”

Lawless gangs are more a threat to America than terrorists. So why does America put up with this lawlessness? If America cannot figure out how to stop inner city and drug gangs it will not have to worry about external threats, because we will soon be Iraq.

FOXNews.com - Gunman Kills Eight, Then Kills Himself, at Omaha Shopping Mall - Local News News Articles National News US News: “OMAHA, Neb. — BREAKING NEWS: A man with a rifle opened fire at a busy Omaha shopping mall Wednesday, killing eight people before taking his own life, police said. Five others were wounded, two critically.”

This is really tragic. It also shows how vulnerable our malls are to a real terrorist attack where hundreds could be easily killed. These malls need to have more security especially during the holiday season. We put air marshals on air planes why not have a few armed undercover marshals in each mall? I am sure some local police would even do it as a second job if their police departments let them.

Florida ’shoot first’ law helps gangsters - Telegraph: “The new law extended the so-called “castle doctrine”, which allowed residents to shoot would-be burglars, to outside the home with the intention of giving legal protection to victims who opened fire during hold-ups or car jackings. At least 15 more states have passed similar laws while others are considering doing so. But an unintended consequence of the law has been that those arrested after gangland shoot-outs have a ready-made defence and prosecutors are often reluctant to recommend charges. “

The problem is the gangs not the gun laws that allow people to protest themselves and their families from these scum. If gang bangers are shooting each other that is really part of the solution not the problem.

If gang member claim self defense when they shoot innocent people because of this law so what? That is why we have a justice system. The truth will come out and their fate will be decided by a Jury.

This law does not make gang bangers any more likely to have weapons. They will get weapons with or without gun laws. The reason police are being shot at is because gangs are gaining more control of our cities, it is not because of this law. It is a stupid apples and oranges argument. The law has nothing to do with the police shootings. Taking guns away from law abiding people is not going to stop the gangs it will only give criminals free reign.

If you really want to stop gang violence stop the gangs. They are a grave danger to America just like terrorists and they should be dealt with in the same fashion. If you need me to tell you how to do that, you are probably part of the problem.

John Longenecker — How Emergency Departments View Shootings: “The FBI reports 10,177 gun-related homicides for 2006, and don’t forget that this is not irresponsible gun ownership, it is Crime. The FBI also reports 2.5 million who de-escalated a crime — perhaps their own murder, rape or abduction – with the use of their own guns, and – get this. . . wait for it . . . without firing their weapon. This is your conspicuous absence of self-defense shootings. “

The Dumbest thing a society can do is to make laws so that the criminals have all the weapons because criminals pay no attention to laws. With a weapon these criminals commit crime without any fear of self defense coming from their victims. Whole nations are run by criminals today because the criminals have all the weapons and the victimized people have no means to stop them.

The world elite want to take guns from the peons so that they will have total control over everyone’s lives. What can you do about their fascist global governance laws after they disarm the people of the world and enforce there global tyranny with a well armed police force?

Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
Ahmadinejad, 51, played down the possibility of a U.S. attack, saying that President George W. Bush’s administration lacks the “economic, political and military” means to carry one out. “No war will break out in the region,” he predicted during a news conference yesterday.
“Iran and Venezuela, because they have ideological differences with the U.S., are trying to drag the other OPEC members into the conflict, by appealing to solidarity against imperialism and aggression,” said John Sfakianakis, chief economist at the Saudi British Bank in Riyadh and formerly a research fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
The era of OPEC political activism is over, the cartel’s Secretary General Abdalla el-Badri told reporters last week. “We are not using the oil we sell to the world as a political weapon,” he said at a Nov. 14 press conference in Riyadh.

OPEC’s days should be numbered. This is not free trade it is a international extortion ring. The world is allowing them through ridiculous high prices to impoverish people all over the world and to cause the death of many. I can think of several ways the world can deal with OPEC. I do not know why the leaders of the world cannot.

Meanwhile, in the US we need a plan the scale of the Manhattan project and the moon project to become totally energy independent. The technology to do this exists or will soon exist with some major investment. It is paramount that we do this or we will see energy spikes in the near future that will bring more war and/or a depression. The investment we need to make to become energy independent will only be a tiny fraction of the cost of the next war or depression.

Lawmen under siege along Mexico border - - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper: “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the investigative arm of Homeland Security, stated in a report earlier this year that border gangs were becoming increasingly ruthless — targeting rivals, along with federal, state and local police. ICE described violence on the border as rising dramatically over the past three years in what it called ‘an unprecedented surge.’ But many agents think they are viewed as ‘expendable’ by the managers within Homeland Security and the Border Patrol. They say that while the number of agents overall has increased dramatically over the past year, the actual number of line agents has not seen a corresponding jump.”

All the more reason why we need to get that fence up pronto and give the Border Patrol the arms, equipment and men they need to fight this invasion.

Sentences for crack offenses studied - Washington Post- msnbc.com: “The Bush administration opposes the new plan, arguing that it would overburden federal courts and release potentially dangerous drug offenders. In a letter to the commission, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher wrote that the release of a large number of drug offenders ‘would jeopardize community safety and threatens to unravel the success we have achieved in removing violent crack offenders from high-crime neighborhoods.’ But many federal judges, public defenders, parole officers and civil rights advocates favor the move, asserting that the penalties for crack cocaine charges have fallen disproportionately onto black people.”

The federal government is planning to dump thousands of crack-heads out on the street. Why? Because more black people use crack and they get stiffer sentences then white people who often use powdered cocaine. Never mind that crack is more addictive and crack-heads needing a fix are far more destructive to society. This action has nothing to do with justice and it totally disregards public safety. It reduces sentencing for criminal behavior because of skin color and is nothing but politically correct racism.

Tories warn of a ‘lost generation’ - Telegraph: “In a stark warning about the extent of the ‘broken society’, it says a toxic combination of family breakdown and school failure is creating a violent and anti-social youth culture. The Commission for Social Justice will today launch an inquiry into the epidemic of gang and youth crime that threatens to turn inner cities into no-go areas.”

Civilization?

British ‘cannibal’ jailed for killing girlfriend - Telegraph: “In the course of the argument, the accused left the room and returned with a mallet, which he used to hit her about the head from behind, provoking her death. ‘Paul took the body to the bathroom and put it in the bath, where, using a knife and a saw, he cut it up and put the different parts of the body into plastic bags, which he put in a suitcase he found in the house, and put it in a container near to the house. ‘The mutilated body was taken away unknowingly by rubbish collectors.’ Durant will be sentenced by the panel of three judges at a later date and faces a prison term of 12 years.”

Now wait a minute, in just 12 years or less you are going to let this mudering loon out on the streets again? That’s British justice?