Posted on 04/26/2015 12:43:14 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Today Americans live in a soft police state. We may not sense its severity and doom like runaway slaves or Anne Frank, but the freedoms of the greatest number of Americans have never been more threatened and violated institutionally -- both openly and secretively -- by our own government.
The Fourth Amendment, which is the law limiting government power to search and seize our persons and most private property, has been gutted by executive and administrative actions, Congress, and the courts -- the very bodies that were supposed to enforce it on government. This American Bill of Right is based in English common law, and was written to prevent what’s now called a “police state.”
Although Americans now live in a soft police state, we may not understand how we got to this point, or why reclaiming the Fourth Amendment is essential to retaining our exceptionalism that flows from freedom. Also, a proposed 21st Century Fourth Amendment introduced in the Virginia General Assembly this year is a model that can restore this Bill of Right to its rightful status.
The Fourth Amendment is quintessentially American even though it is based in English common law. It inherently relies on the separation of powers, but that too comes from the common law, and was forged through centuries-old battles between freedom and tyranny.
The Fourth Amendment is written in broad strokes covering many complex concepts, but has three basic parts -- trespass, process, and specificity. Understanding them, and the historical context from which they evolved, will help us reclaim this Bill of Right.
The first clause (or part) reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated….”(continued)
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The elites run both the legal and illegal drug business.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardine_Matheson
Notice that JM still uses a stylized opium poppy as their corporate logo.
Sheeple, wake up and smell the coffee.
That reminds me, I’m gonna go make a cup.
Start killing the drug dealers and watch how fast that hopeless war turns around.
Links only...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Opium_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#History
The elites based in the UK and US are the opium drug lords at the top.
Warren Delano, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s grandfather, was an opium trader, as was the Russell family, one of whom founded the Skull and Bones franternity at Yale (the skull and bones symbol is used because the traders were pirates):
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/28/opinion/the-opium-war-s-secret-history.html
I am well aware of the Chinese opium wars. I am also aware that the Chinese refer to the period that followed the Opium wars as “the century of humiliation”. That’s what America has to look forward to.
HSBC is still laundering drug money; from then until now.
The elites of the finance world are the drug lords.
The CIA is huge into drugs; the Russell family, Skull & Bones, etc., influence throughout CIA history;
Afghanistan continues to produce 90% of the world’s opium that hits the streets.
and then there’s Mena Arkansas and Governor Clinton. and his wife.
Dutiful minions.
They should all be strung up from the lamp posts.
It is of no small irony that government often relies on claims of security in order to violate the Fourth Amendment’s guarantees of security from government trespass under non-emergency circumstances. Security and good law enforcement, however, begin with law enforcement officials following the law themselves.
LEO SOP these days. Getting home safe is job #1, not protecting citizens' constitutional rights.
It’s very simple. The police are the government’s armed enforcers. As the government becomes bigger and more powerful so will the police. No two ways about it. Liberals better wake up> They will get what they have wished and worked for and it wont be pretty.
How?…
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal. In short, there is a legal plunder…
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism. Bastiat - The Law
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt…
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands to give them an interest against their constituents, and to ensure the part they are to act.
8. (4) A great debt will require great taxes; great taxes, many taxgatherers and other officers; and all officers are auxiliaries of power.
10. "Divide and govern"…
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks. Freneau - Rules
“... will help us reclaim this Bill of Right.”
The guys who violate this right have guns on their hips and in their heads the calculation they can and WILL use it, with impunity, should anyone stand in their way.
Look up the term anarcho-tyranny.
Just march into the national forest in Arizona, find the cartel grows and show us how it is done. The Gestapo are afraid to.
We have done it your way since tricky Dick declared a war on drugs. In that time, drugs have become cheaper, easier to get and more potent.
Tossing a grenade into a crib with a sleeping baby is now considered proper police work.
Your precious war on drugs cost us trillions of dollars and the protection of the 4th and 5th Amendments.
You and your ilk lost the war and the argument decades ago.
RECEIVED PER EMAIL TODAY; ONE OF THE BEST DESCRIPTIONS I’VE EVER SEEN OF ODUNGO:
Obama, first he comes for the banks and health care, uses the IRS to go after critics, politicizes the Justice Department, spies on journalists, tries to curb religious freedom, Goes after businesses (operation Choke Point) guts the military, throws open the borders, doubles the debt, and nationalizes the Internet.
He lies to the public, ignores the Constitution, inflames race relations and urges Latinos to punish Republican “enemies.” He abandons our allies, appeases tyrants, coddles adversaries and uses the Crusades as an excuse for inaction as Islamist terrorists slaughter their way across the Mideast. Now he is making another giant blunder with Iran.
What has Iran done to EARN the trust of America? or any other country for that matter
Obama now gambles the lives of millions, from a terrorist state that chants DEATH TO AMERICA! and will create a nuke race in the middle East..and now he goes on national TV and embarrasses our country once again
Worst President in American History
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Yes the war on drugs and then when you realize that almost everything is now agains’t the law. That’s a police state. If it were not for guns we would all be toast.
No doubt the financial elites and the CIA, plus many bought-and-paid-for politicians, are heavily involved one way or another in the drug trade. Americans have the ability to stop them very effectively, as well as end half the violent crime in the world. Simply stop buying and using the crap. Virtually all (over 85%, last time I read the statistics) illegal drugs sold worldwide are consumed in the US. Don’t buy it, and the drug trade would stop in its tracks. No demand, no trade.
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