Police state growth pains

Nothing to worry about, just a rough transition to the New World Order. Tough challenges include Waco, Ruby Ridge, The Patriot Act, 9-11, wars for democracy in Iraq, public misunderstandings about Posse Comitatus, the militarization of local police forces, and international bankers buying up American assets for pennies on the dollar using American taxpayer money. Aber keine Angst, alles ist in ordnung. Utopia will be here before we know it.



Alexander Solzhenitsyn famously wrote, of the Marxist revolution in Russia,

"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt."

It takes work to see -- and admit -- what is right in front of you. Oh, say, Americans, can you see?