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?

If Mexico does not win this battle on drug trafficking we will end up with a hostile nation on our south border. Then we will be forced to send our military to defend our south border. The first thing we need to do is to start posting that anyone crossing into the U.S. illegally from Mexico is subject to deadly force and give our border patrol the weapons, technology and the backing to carry out that policy.

I don’t care what some are saying about the danger this would bring to the innocent illegals that are only coming across to make a living. They are only coming across now because they know they can. Besides, they are already in great danger by those who smuggle them like cattle along with their drugs - hundreds die each year. Common people in Mexico will soon get the message that you do not cross into the U.S illegally if we truly enforce our borders.

How do Liberal “compassionate” supporters of illegal entry rationalize that this policy is causing thousands of deaths and lawlessness in Mexico? Not to mention that drug running across our south border helps to kill many thousands of Americans and ruin the lives of millions through drug addiction. Is that compassion? Sometimes you need tough laws to protect people from the greedy predators of the world.

They say if we tighten up enforcement of our borders some poor workers might get killed but they totally ignore the fact that many thousands are being killed and that whole nations are being subverted by drug cartels.

Sometimes you have to fight to protect a civil society. Do sane people want drug cartels running Mexico? I assure you it will not have a good outcome. Now is the time to put pressure on our own government to join forces with President Calderon to ruthlessly crush the drug cartels. We also need to crush drug gangs in our own nation that have virtually taken over our inner cities. Now please don’t talk to me about the gang’s civil rights when the civil rights of millions of city dwellers have already been taken away by the gangs.

New Mexican ‘revolución’ crosses border, infects U.S.

In the 18 months since President Felipe Calderon took office vowing to defeat the cartels, the Mexican army, increasingly equipped with modern American-made arms, vehicles and communication, has been deployed across the country in a running battle against the cartels. The death toll is rising. The cartels have executed more than 4,000 people: judges, police chiefs and officers, mayors, military commanders and rival gang members, in a continuing battle over control of territory, particularly in the states of Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Durango. Portions of the Mexican army have been compromised, and many Mexican soldiers are now cartel enforcers.

The danger now is that revenue from smuggling is so great that cartels can not only bribe officials to get their way, but they can permanently buy off (or kill off) key army, government, political and media figures, rendering Mexico a state dominated by the cartels. Things can get much worse in Mexico than they are today. And that means, things can get much worse for America, too. President Calderon deserves U.S. support as he fights the smuggling cartels for control of Mexico

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.”

There is so much money in drugs going to the U.S. that even government not already corrupted by the money cannot cope with the gangsters. Over tens thousands people die in drug wars and by drug overdoses in Mexico and the United States each year.

More U.S. citizens die because of drug users then die in Iraq but where are the liberals on this issue? Drugs have led to government corruption and is leading to a police state yet demented users think that doing drugs is harmless. If there were no users these things would not be happening. Therefore, if you use illegal drugs you are also guilty of murder.

Many of the same people who make the most noise about U.S. foreign wars are the same ones that bring murder and tyranny through their immoral drug use. What percentage of the rich and famous that are always whining about Iraq and George Bush use drugs and bring this death to the land? They ought to learn the meaning of the word hypocrite!

All who use illegal drugs are honorary members of the Demented, Delusional or Dumb Club.

Drug tyranny on the border - Washington Post- msnbc.com

More than 20,000 Mexican troops and federal police are engaged in a multi-front war with the private armies of rival drug lords, a conflict that is being waged most fiercely along the 2,000-mile length of the U.S.-Mexico border. The proximity of the violence has drawn in the Bush administration, which has proposed a $500 million annual aid package to help President Felipe Calderón combat what a Government Accountability Office report estimates is Mexico’s $23 billion a year drug trade.

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.

WorldNetDaily: Bill guts border fence requirement: “‘Pulling back from the double-fence mandate is a prescription for failure that will only allow more smugglers, criminals and illegal aliens to enter the United States through our land border with Mexico,’ the California congressman added.
‘If enacted,’ Hunter concluded, ‘this legislation would represent a significant step backwards in the effort to secure our borders.’”

“I find it odd that such an important amendment which releases DHS from specific requirements of an existing law would be passed by a simple voice vote in the Senate and then buried in the massive omnibus bill,” Elliott said.
“The American people reasonably expect that a double-layer fence will be built, but Congress has always had other plans,” he argued. “This amendment should be stripped from the bill.”
Hunter agreed.

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.

WorldNetDaily: Blacks buy into ‘values’ agenda: “A major survey of black American attitudes just released by the Pew Research Center gives reasons for both sobriety and encouragement. “

This article has a good set of statistics that you don’t hear every day. From what I see blacks may finally be figuring out that they are now their own worst enemy. Now they need to do more about it starting with gangs, drugs and other crime. There are many great black people in this country but unfortunately the black community in the inner cities have left the ungodly criminals run the streets. They need to take back their streets and see to it that their kids are brought up to function in main stream society and not to be part of a criminal amoral negative counter culture. Positive role models like Cosby, Foreman, Star Parker and many others should get the highest praise from people of all skin tones

WorldNetDaily: Battle-scarred ’sub’ in L.A. barrios speaks out: “To make ends meet during hard economic times, I became a ’substitute teacher’ for the Los Angeles Unified School District, or LAUSD – or to put it more kindly, a ‘guest teacher.’ As a guest LAUSD teacher I thought I would be an asset, but the system has never appreciated nor taken advantage of my educational or professional hard-earned accomplishments. There’s no teaching going on at LAUSD – only confinement of the sort one may find in a penal colony, complete with walkie-talkie-carrying wardens and bullhorns. And I have ‘confined’ at many different schools within central Los Angeles in the last six months. Many students scream ‘suuuuuuuub‘ when they see someone like me – a ‘guest teacher’ – in their classroom and trample anyone and/or anything as they push and shove their way inside. “

The inmates have taken over the asylum. Society is nuts to let this happen in our schools and it is nuts to tolerate gangs in our cities. Don’t you think this permissive social experiment has gone far enough and that it is time to return to the sanity of discipline?

Gang in L.A. is dealt a ‘blow’ - - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper: “Drug-enforcement agents swept through Los Angeles this week in the second major wave of arrests of members and associates of a violent Hispanic street gang known as Florencia 13, who have targeted rival blacks and others ‘who got in the way’ of their efforts to control parts of the city.”

Good work, now get the other thousands of gang members that control many of our cities.

Feds: Latino Gang Targeted Blacks Newsweek National News Newsweek.com:
Racial ‘Cleansing’ in L.A.
“Federal prosecutors say a powerful Latino gang systematically targeted rival black gang members and innocent black civilians in a reign of terror.”

Mafia Is Biggest Business in Italy: “ROME (AP) - Revenue from organized crime amounts to an estimated $127 billion annually in Italy, making it the largest segment of the economy, a lobby group for small businesses said Monday”

Cartels outrun, outgun the law at Ariz. border: “Hovering above the Tohono-O’odham Reservation recently, Harris pointed to a volcanic hill riddled with campsites where cartel ’spotters’ take up key lookout positions to alert smugglers of nearby patrols. Such hideouts dot just about every hill Harris scouts in the 90 miles between Marana and Why in Pima County.

There are more than 100 well-armed Mexican spotters operating in Arizona at any time, Harris and federal agents estimate. The camps show how pervasive the Mexican drug-smuggling operation has become and why congressional investigators said last week that cartels ‘operate with relative impunity along the U.S. border.’

Mexican smuggling rings, now allied with Colombian cartels, outspend, outgun and frequently outmaneuver government agents from both sides of the border because of enormous revenues and cunning operations. The drug war is a mismatch in both countries. At best, government statistics show, one load in 10 is seized at the border, where Arizona has become the busiest marijuana-smuggling route. “

The question should be, why do we allow it to go on? The US can stop the drug cartel people from crossing the border but it will take some armed troops and some political backbone.

If only ten things were dealt with like I know they should be dealt with, sanity could be restored to America and crime would drop at least 95 percent.

Those ten things are:

1. Stop illegal immigration

2. Drugs

3. Gangs

4. White collar and Internet crimes

5. Pornography and sex perversion

6. Public decency codes restored to like they were in the 50’s for all media and any public display

7. Election reform (term limits, and fund raising reform)

8. Public education reform (Back to basic education like it was before the socialists and perverts took over)

9. A constitutional Bill of rights for parents to raise their children

10. A constitutional Bill of rights for freedom of religious expression in public

How would I deal with crime and perversion? Ruthlessly! Screw the ACLU. Think about the rights of all the victims instead of the rights of the criminal’s, junkies and perverts.

What will Jesus do when He comes? What then should Christian do!

Mexico becoming one of world’s more dangerous countries: Times Argus Online: “The report, made public last week, said that major federal crimes, which include homicides, kidnappings and arms trafficking, rose 25 percent in the first half of 2007 over the same period last year. In 2006, the same crimes had risen 22 percent over the previous year. Gangland style executions have risen 155 percent since 2001, according to the congressional report. Crime has been on the rise in Mexico throughout the last decade as drug cartels battle for control of lucrative smuggling routes. But the new findings come at a politically charged time for the Calderon administration, which is also confronting a new threat from an old foe — the shadowy Popular Revolutionary Army or EPR, its Spanish acronym.”

ABC News: Philly’s Top Cop Asks Blacks to Help Patrol
The city’s embattled police chief, acknowledging that police alone cannot quell a run of deadly violence, has called on 10,000 black men to patrol the streets to reduce crime.

“He won’t get anywhere near that number. If he gets 1,000 people, it will be great,” said Heather DeRussy, who leads a local Guardian Angels chapter that has recruited just seven members in the past two years. Given its size, the group focuses on a single north Philadelphia park plagued by prostitution and drug use.
DeRussy lauded Johnson for his effort but said she fears the volunteers will find it dangerous to patrol their home turf.
“In their own neighborhoods, with the ‘Don’t snitch’ mentality, they’re kind of putting themselves in harm’s way, because there are going to be people who disagree with what they’re doing,” DeRussy said.
The men who join Johnson’s program will not carry weapons or make arrests but will instead emphasize conflict resolution,”

The Philly Chief understands that there is a problem but his plan is not going to go far enough to address the problem. At least he is admitting that the city is out of control and the answer is in the men of the city.

First off, you are not going to get sufficient numbers of men unless you get all the churches in the area behind the effort. Next, conflict resolution is not going to stop most crime. The drug and street gangs are not going to be intimidated by men without any enforcement powers.

What the cities need to do is to train citizen volunteer police who have some of the training and most of the enforcement powers of profession police. They should not wear uniforms or the other garb of police officers. They should be identifiable but otherwise look like average Joe citizen. Let the men of the neighborhoods learn who the problems in the neighborhoods are and let them deal with the situation. Gangs and illegal activity should not even be allow on the streets.

Men are going to have to think of this like they were leaders in a tribal village where the elders of the village enforce the rules of the village. Men are going to have to be leaders and role models in their neighborhoods and not tolerate known predators that will eat their young, weak and elderly. Police are going to have to allow the men to have enforcement power in their neighborhoods or this is not going to work.

Will there be some abuses of power? Sure, but there are abuses of power with the professional police as well. One thing is certain, the abuses of any citizen groups will be far less than the abuses by criminals in the inner cities today. When abuses are found they will be held accountable by the professional police and the citizens of the community.

Also the citizen police need to be given recognition, honor, authority and perhaps some perks. Much like deacons and elders get in a church or a top Sargent in the military. Do that in every high crime neighborhood in America and you will solved this problem.

Christian Faith Slices Through Youth Crime - J. Grant Swank Jr. - Sep 11, 07: “‘Some old-fashioned guidelines still prevail: Church attendance, family discipline and meaningful school involvement lessen violence among aggressive children in tough neighborhoods, according to a study released yesterday by the University of Washington. ‘The study found that just 11 percent of black teenagers became violent by the time they were 18 if their parents practiced such ‘good family-management skills as actively providing supervision, setting clear rules and expectations for behavior and reinforcing good work habits.’ ‘Among parents who did not rule the roost, 49 percent of the teens later became violent.’”

FrontPage Magazine: “The refusal of US authorities to close off illegal crossings of the US-Mexican border and more thoroughly inspect legal crossings has allowed the creation of a millions-strong class of illegal persons in the US. At the same time the open border has provided an incentive for Mexican drug gangs to open up shop south of the border in order to flood the US with narcotics. Drug use is now on the increase in Mexico as well.

With Mexican drug gangs corrupting police and terrorizing Mexicans, they also provide a possible conduit for terrorist infiltration of the US. Mexico has long been a way station for “OTMs”—Other Than Mexicans—intending to sneak into the US. The human smuggling business is intrinsically linked to the drug smuggling business. With narco-terrorists borrowing a page from al-Qaeda’s playbook—videotaping executions and beheading their victims, there is little reason to think they would hesitate at assisting Islamist terrorists—if the price was right.”

If Mexico is not cleaned up and illegal border crossings stopped, terrorism will become common place in the US. Not just from Islamics but also from Mexican drug gangs that already control some of our inner cities.

The Horror! The Horror! The fascists are coming! Or rather, they’re already here, installed in the White House, planning like mad to subvert the Constitution and extend their reign in perpetuity, having first suppressed and eviscerated all opposition and put all of their critics in jail. Thus goes the rant of America’s increasingly unhinged left. If only, sigh many Bush partisans, wondering when this administration will get out of the fetal position and show some fighting spirit. To them, as to most reasonable observers, the White House shows the chronic fatigue of a two-term presidency reaching its final year. Nonetheless, paranoia about what Bush and Co. are up to preys on the minds of many progressives, who have progressed, in this case at least, beyond reason.

You also hear the same rhetoric coming from some on the Right. I have been hearing this stuff since the days of Richard Nixon. I suppose if we elect Ron Paul some will find that he is is really a plant of the Moose Lodge or the Alien Reptilians. Frankly there are a lot of people out there who are on drugs or else need to be on drugs or an increased dose.

Fascism might come one day but it will only come when the American people want it to come. When Americans are willing to give up all their freedoms for security it will evolve into fascism.

For that to happen there will first have to a major threat to America’s security. That probably can only happen if we let terrorists invade our country and let criminal gangsters take over our cities and let perverts set our moral standards.

Yeah, I know we have already let that happen. So come to think of it, maybe fascism is right around the corner. But don’t blame George Bush, blame yourself for electing the people you do to office who do not enforce our laws. When fascism really comes it most likely will not come by George Bush’s secret Skull and Cross Bones Society it more likely will come in under the Far Left side of Hillary’s skirt.