Dat de VS de laatste decennia is veranderd in een politiestaat zal velen niet verbazen. Echter waar dit mee gepaard gaat, doet je de haren ten berge stijgen.
Het volgende artikel van Information Clearing House ontving ik afgelopen woensdag en hierin een aantal voorbeelden, van wat je als burger in de VS kan overkomen en hoe je daar tegen te verzetten (indien mogelijk). De leeftijden van de mensen in de voorbeelden, lopen uiteen van 3 jaar tot 95 jaar oud……..
Zo kan het kinderen van 4 jaar overkomen, dat ze door de politie of andere overheidsambtenaren worden geboeid (van handen en/of voeten) of getaserd (dat is een grove marteling!), ook kan het voorkomen, dat ze onder schot worden gehouden……… Dit omdat ze niet gehoorzamen en/of kinderachtig gedrag vertonen…….
Een 3 jarige jongen, die nog niet zindelijk was en dus niet in staat was een urine monster af te geven, werd door sociaal werkers tegen de grond gehouden, waarna een ‘verpleger’ hem schreeuwend van de pijn een katheter in de penis aangebracht………
Wat u ervan vindt weet ik niet, maar voor mij is dit alles een heel smerige vorm van overheidsterreur!!.
Zoals al vaak op deze plek gezegd: aan zo’n ‘land’ levert Nederland niet alleen haar burgers uit, maar ook burgers uit andere landen…….. Dezelfde VS waar men het ‘plea bargain’ hanteert: je kan in veel gevallen beter schuld bekennen, zelfs al heb je niet gedaan, waarvan je wordt verdacht, daar je anders grote kans loopt een fiks hogere straf te krijgen (nogmaals: ook al ben je onschuldig…)……
Lees en huiver (onder het artikel kan u voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’ klikken, dit neemt wel enige tijd in beslag):
Run
for Your Life: The American Police State Is Coming to Get You
By
John W. Whitehead
“We’ve
reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and
vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where
police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and
colonoscopies without the suspect’s consent. And these procedures
aren’t to nab kingpins or cartels, but people who at worst are
hiding an amount of drugs that can fit into a body cavity. In most of
these cases, they were suspected only of possession or ingestion.
Many of them were innocent… But these tactics aren’t about
getting drugs off the street… These
tactics are instead about degrading and humiliating a class of people
that politicians and law enforcement have deemed the enemy.” – Radley
Balko, The
Washington Post
April
19, 2017 “Information
Clearing House” – Daily, all across America,
individuals who dare to resist—or even question—a police order
are being subjected to all sorts of government-sanctioned abuse
ranging from forced catheterization, forced blood draws, roadside
strip searches and cavity searches, and other foul and debasing acts
that degrade their bodily integrity and leave them bloodied and
bruised.
Americans
as young as 4 years old are being leg
shackled, handcuffed, tasered and held
at gun point for
not being quiet, not being orderly and just being childlike—i.e.,
not being compliant enough.
Government
social workers actually subjected
a 3-year-old boy to a forced catheterization after
he was unable to provide them with a urine sample on demand (the boy
still wasn’t potty trained). The boy was held down, screaming
in pain,
while nurses forcibly inserted a tube into his penis to drain his
bladder—all of this done because the boy’s mother’s boyfriend
had failed a urine analysis for drugs.
Americans
as old as 95 are being beaten, shot and killed for questioning an
order, hesitating
in the face of a directive,
and mistaking
a policeman crashing through their door for a criminal breaking
into their home—i.e., not being submissive enough.
Consider
what happened to David Dao, the United Airlines passenger who was
accosted by three police, forcibly wrenched from his seat across the
armrest, bloodying his face in the process, and dragged down the
aisle by the arms merely
for refusing to relinquish his paid seat after
the airline chose him randomly to be bumped from the flight—after
being checked in and allowed to board—so that airline workers could
make a connecting flight.
Those
with ADHD, autism, hearing impairments, dementia or some other
disability that can hinder communication in the slightest way are in
even greater danger of having their actions misconstrued by police.
Police shot
a 73-year-old-man with dementia seven times after
he allegedly failed to respond to orders to stop approaching and
remove his hands from his jacket. The man was unarmed and had been
holding a crucifix.
Clearly,
it no longer matters where you live.
Big
city or small town: it’s the same scenario being played out over
and over again in which government agents, hyped up on their own
authority and the power of their uniform, ride roughshod over the
citizenry who—in the eyes of the government—are viewed as having
no rights.
Our
freedoms—especially the Fourth Amendment—continue to be torn
asunder by the prevailing view among government bureaucrats that they
have the right to search, seize, strip, scan, spy on, probe, pat
down, taser, and arrest any individual
at any time
and for the slightest provocation.
Forced
cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws, forced
breath-alcohol tests, forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans,
forced inclusion in biometric databases—these are just a few ways
in which Americans continue to be reminded that we have no control
over what happens to our bodies during an encounter with government
officials.
For
instance, during a “routine” traffic stop for allegedly “rolling”
through a stop sign, Charnesia Corley was thrown to the ground,
stripped of her clothes, and forced to spread her legs while Texas
police officers subjected her to a roadside
cavity probe,
all because they claimed to have smelled marijuana in her car.
Angel
Dobbs and her 24-year-old niece, Ashley, were pulled over by a Texas
state trooper for allegedly flicking cigarette butts out of the car
window. Insisting that he smelled marijuana, the trooper proceeded to
interrogate them and search the car. Despite the fact that both women
denied smoking or possessing any marijuana, the police officer then
called in a female trooper, who carried out a roadside cavity
search, sticking
her fingers into the older woman’s anus and vagina,
then performing the same procedure on the younger woman, wearing the
same pair of gloves. No marijuana was found.
Leila
Tarantino was subjected to two roadside strip searches in plain view
of passing traffic during a routine traffic stop, while her two
children—ages 1 and 4—waited inside her car. During the second
strip search, presumably in an effort to ferret out drugs, a female
officer “forcibly removed” a tampon from Tarantino.
Nothing illegal was found.
David
Eckert was forced to undergo an
anal cavity search, three enemas, and a colonoscopy after
allegedly failing to yield to a stop sign at a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Cops justified the searches on the grounds that they suspected Eckert
was carrying drugs because his “posture [was] erect” and “he
kept his legs together.” No drugs were found.
Meanwhile,
four Milwaukee police officers were charged with carrying out rectal
searches of suspects on the street and in police district stations
over the course of several years. One of the officers was accused of
conducting searches of men’s anal and scrotal areas,
often inserting
his fingers into their rectums and
leaving some of his victims with bleeding rectums.
Incidents
like these—sanctioned by the courts and conveniently overlooked by
the legislatures—teach Americans of every age and skin color the
painful lesson that there are no limits to what the government can do
in its so-called “pursuit” of law and order.
If
this is a war, then “we the people” are the enemy.
As
Radley Balko notes in The
Washington Post,
“When you’re at war, it’s important to dehumanize your enemy.
And there’s nothing more dehumanizing than forcibly and painfully
invading someone’s body — all
the better if you can involve the sex organs.”
The
message being beaten, shot, tasered, probed and slammed into our
collective consciousness is simply this: it doesn’t matter if
you’re in the right, it doesn’t matter if a cop is in the wrong,
it doesn’t matter if you’re being treated with less than the
respect you deserve or the law demands.
The
only thing that matters to the American police state is that you
comply, submit, respect authority and generally obey without question
whatever a government official (anyone who wears a government
uniform, be it a police officer, social worker, petty bureaucrat or
zoning official) tells you to do.
This
is what happens when you allow the government to call the shots: it
becomes a bully.
As
history shows, this recipe for disaster works every time: take police
officers hyped up on their own authority and the power of the badge,
throw in a few court rulings suggesting that security takes
precedence over individual rights, set it against a backdrop of
endless wars and militarized law enforcement, and then add to the mix
a populace distracted by entertainment, out of touch with the
workings of their government, and more inclined to let a few sorry
souls suffer injustice than to challenge the status quo.
“It
is not only under Nazi rule that police
excesses are inimical to freedom,”
warned former Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter in a 1946
ruling in Davis
v. United States:
“It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for
the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the
unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such
disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at
first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.”
In
other words, if it could happen in Nazi Germany, it can just as
easily happen here.
It is happening
here.
Unfortunately,
we’ve been marching in lockstep with the police state for so long
that we’ve forgotten how to march to the tune of our own
revolutionary drummer. In fact, we’ve even forgotten the words to
the tune.
We’ve
learned the lessons of compliance too well.
For
too long, “we the people” have allowed the government to ride
roughshod over the Constitution, equating patriotism with blind
obedience to the government’s dictates, no matter how
unconstitutional or immoral those actions might be.
As
historian Howard Zinn recognized:
Our
problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all
over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their
government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed
because of this obedience… Our problem is that people are obedient
all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and
stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are
obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while
the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem…
people are obedient, all these herdlike people.
What
can you do?
It’s
simple but as I detail in my book Battlefield
America: The War on the American People,
the consequences may be deadly.
Stop
being so obedient. Stop being so compliant and herdlike. Stop
kowtowing to anyone and everyone in uniform. Stop perpetuating the
false notion that those who work for the government—the president,
Congress, the courts, the military, the police—are in any way
superior to the rest of the citizenry. Stop playing politics with
your principles. Stop making excuses for the government’s growing
list of human rights abuses and crimes. Stop turning a blind eye to
the government’s corruption and wrongdoing and theft and murder.
Stop tolerating ineptitude and incompetence by government workers.
Stop allowing the government to treat you like a second-class
citizen. Stop censoring what you say and do for fear that you might
be labeled an extremist or worse, unpatriotic. Stop sitting silently
on the sidelines while the police state kills, plunders and maims
your fellow citizens.
Stop
being a slave.
As
anti-war activist Rosa Luxemburg concluded, “Those who do not move,
do not notice their chains.”
You
may not realize it yet, but you are not free.
If
you believe otherwise, it is only because you have made no real
attempt to exercise your freedoms.
Had
you attempted to exercise your freedoms before now by questioning a
police officer’s authority, challenging an unjust tax or fine,
protesting the government’s endless wars, defending your right to
privacy against the intrusion of surveillance cameras, or any other
effort that challenges the government’s power grabs and the
generally lopsided status quo, you would have already learned the
hard way that the police state has no appetite for freedom and it
does not tolerate resistance.
This
is called authoritarianism, a.k.a. totalitarianism, a.k.a.
oppression.
As
Glenn Greenwald notes for
the Guardian:
Oppression
is designed to compel obedience and submission to authority. Those
who voluntarily put themselves in that state – by believing that
their institutions of authority are just and good and should be
followed rather than subverted – render oppression redundant,
unnecessary. Of course people who think and behave this way encounter
no oppression. That’s their reward for good, submissive behavior.
They are left alone by institutions of power because they comport
with the desired behavior of complacency and obedience without
further compulsion. But the fact that good, obedient citizens do not
themselves perceive oppression does not mean that oppression does not
exist.
Get
ready to stand your ground or run for your life, because the American
police state is coming to get you.
Constitutional
attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The
Rutherford Institute.
His new book Battlefield
America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks,
2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be
contacted at johnw@rutherford.org.
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Nog één opmerking: mensen we moeten oppassen, dat we hier niet dezelfde kant opgaan….. Onder het mom van de strijd tegen terreur, worden onze rechten in groot tempo afgebroken en voor we het weten, zitten we hier ook in een politiestaat, één waarvan Hitler had kunnen dromen toen hij ons land binnenviel…….. Dit terwijl de geheime diensten en politie in binnen en buitenland hun werk niet doen. Neem de aanslag van gisteravond in Parijs, de dader was al een paar jaar in het vizier van de geheime dienst en de politie (voor de zoveelste keer)………. Reken maar dat men niet alleen in Frankrijk om nog meer antiterreurmaatregelen zal schreeuwen, maatregelen die een politiestaat in wording ten goede komen……….
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‘Teeven tasert softdrugsgebruikers‘
‘Opstelten en Teeven bestrijden de door henzelf veroorzaakte ellende‘
Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt (nog) niet voor de labels: Balko en Zinn. .
Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving, kreeg e.e.a. niet op orde.
