Top Ten Signs We’re Living in a Police State

Ryan Cristian
Aug 25, 2017 · 5 min read

“The further a society drifts from Truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” — George Orwell

There are some who would have Americans believe that certain kinds of change are necessary to the modern survival of this country. In this time of limitless and unforeseen possibilities, that statement is inevitably true. Yet, this uncertainty is used to impose unnecessary restrictions upon the people. These restrictions will set this nation down a dangerous path that will slowly strip it of that which was once the sole ambition of those who set out to liberate the oppressed: freedom.

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — Benjamin Franklin

1. Whistleblowers being culled

Deceiving the people you work for and spreading their information to the masses in most cases is a no-no; except when you are exposing a gross injustice and or breach of rights by the very men charged with the defense of those rights. Then it becomes the duty of every American to expose the true evil. There are people, such as Edward Snowden, who are fighting for the rights of others at the expense of their own, being cast as traitors when in reality they are the true patriots of today.

2. There are cameras everywhere

You can’t go anywhere today without being recorded. From the traffic lights to the ATM machine every move you make is watched and documented. I don’t know about you, but I don’t recall voting on these matters. They just sort of appeared, for our safety of course. As far as regulation goes, there are none. Our government can access these feeds at any point, for any reason, as long as it’s a matter of national security. Which I’m sure it always is.

3. Your vote no longer matters

Despite all the evidence that these machines are built to be tampered with, touch screen voting machines continue to be used as this obvious security breach goes purposefully overlooked. For years, researchers have spoken out about the many flaws built into these machines. They have found ways to reject ballots, swap votes or accept 50,000 votes from a precinct with just 100 voters. Ask yourself if your vote still counts…

4. The news only tells you what they want you to hear

It’s no secret that the mainstream media is no longer the inquisitive and impartial figure that it once was. This is unfortunately something that those of us smart enough to realize have come to accept. There are those who mindlessly allow their decisions to be made for them by whatever one-sided story they choose to believe, but they are already lost. When one must rely on the Alternative News outlets of the world to seek out the truth behind the lies, it becomes obvious that our nation is far different from the way they want us to see it.

5. The loss of free speech

The last thing the government wants, is for those of us seeing what’s coming to speak our minds. They have worked too long and too hard to covertly manipulate the general population into feeling that they need more protection, which by default means a loss of everyday liberties. So we see people like Adam Kokesh (who by admission has extreme methods) being arrested by police and facing prison time, yet has broken no law if we still feel that Bill of Rights holds any true meaning anymore.

6. The Government monitoring your phone and location

I don’t think this topic even needs to be explained, but I will continue for those of you living under a rock. Edward Snowden, who I mentioned above, was labeled a traitor and arrested for treason for leaking information showing that the NSA was, and continues to, illegally track our phone activity and locations. This is undisputed and should scare all of us.

7. A never-ending war

A big red flag is the War on Terror or the War on Drugs. These are wars with ambiguous goals that can never be fully reached. There will always be another step or another threat. These perpetual wars will never end, nor were they meant to. They were manufactured to give justification to supposed temporary measures such as: massive government spending, spying on American citizens, suspension of civil liberties, and massive military expansion.

8. “Temporary” loss of rights

The Patriot act, in the same way as the wars mentioned above, was never meant to be temporary as we were told. This is exactly how just about every totalitarian rule in history has begun. We are told an extreme measure is necessary for protection, or whatever reason is conjured up, and it may mean a loss of certain liberties (also undefined) that will be temporary. Only put in place until the threat is over. Now many years later, the poorly named Patriot Act is stronger than ever, assimilated into every aspect of governmental action.

9. Prison camps

Halliburton subsidiaries were given nearly $400 million to build detention centers in the United States, for the purpose of unspecified “new programs.” There is no other explanation to detention centers than they are built to detain. Obama was quoted saying that these centers were for “Prolonged Detention” for those the government suspected might commit terrorist acts. “Might” being the key word there. The question is, who are they truly for?

10. Signing statements

Instead of vetoing or signing a bill, there is third option made popular by the Bush administration. These signing statements, when used deceitfully, can be used to bypass the judiciary and undermine the rule of law as we know in the United States. It allows the president to pick and choose which laws he feels like following and which to ignore. For instance, here is one that stands out to me:

Bill Passed — Dec. 30, 2005: US interrogators cannot torture prisoners or otherwise subject them to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.

Bush’s signing statement: The president, as commander-in-chief, can waive the torture ban if he decides that harsh interrogation techniques will assist in preventing terrorist attacks.

Obama was public about his outrage toward Bush’s decision to use such actions before he was elected, calling them “an unconstitutional end-run around Congress.” Obama has taken the very same action as president.

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