AMERICANS READY TO ACCEPT A POLICE STATE?
By Chuck Baldwin
October 24, 2013NewsWithViews.com
Are Americans ready to accept a
police state? Are pastors and Christians ready to accept a police state? Are
Republicans and conservatives ready to accept a police state? Are Democrats and
liberals ready to accept a police state? Are there truly enough people left in
this country who even understand what a police state is, and if they do, would
they really support it?
I can hear
many readers shouting, “No!” But I truly wonder just how many Americans have
already accepted the police state in their hearts and minds. It is absolutely
true that before despots and tyrants can put shackles around men’s necks, they
must first put them around men’s hearts. So, just how many of the American
people are walking around every day with shackles already around their hearts?
How many pastors mount the pulpits with shackles around their hearts? How many
teachers enter the classroom with shackles around their hearts? How many State
lawmakers walk into their various capitols with shackles around their hearts?
How many police officers get into their squad cars with shackles around their
hearts? How many military personnel put on their uniforms with shackles around
their hearts?
Those of us
who are passionate about the freedom fight spend a lot of time discussing and
debating the nuances of how best to protect liberty. Except for a precious few,
our State governors, attorney generals, legislators, senators, mayors, county
commissioners, city councilmen, etc., are doing a fantastically lousy job of
honoring their oaths to the Constitution and to the principles contained in our
Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights. Except for a precious few, our
pastors, deacons, elders, and church leaders are doing a fantastically lousy job
of defending freedom principles. Except for a precious few, our civic and
business leaders are doing a fantastically lousy job of defending liberty. And
needless to say, you could put the people on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.,
who are even doing diddly-squat about preserving liberty into an old-fashioned
phone booth.
Republicans?
Most of them have never seen a bill that expands the police state at home and
foreign wars abroad that they did not absolutely love. Democrats? Most of them
have never seen a bill that expanded government (any government) that they did
not absolutely love. Yes, yes, I know that there are a few--a precious
few--exceptions to the above, but not many.
But are the
American people truly ready to accept a police state? A recent report at
InfoWars.com is quite shocking to those of us who tend to believe that most of
our fellow Americans would recoil at the thought of an open police
state.Reporting for
InfoWars.com, Paul Joseph Watson writes, “After illustrating their enthusiasm
for repealing the Bill of Rights, a video shows Americans happily signing a
petition to support a ‘Nazi-style Orwellian police state,’ in what easily
represents the most shocking footage of its kind to date.
“Citing issues
with how the government shutdown has impacted the ability of the police to ‘keep
the community safe,’ [Mark] Dice tells San Diegans that there is a need to
‘increase the Orwellian system.’
“‘Not a
problem,’ responds one man as he signs the petition.“‘We just want
to model it after the Nazi Germany system to keep people safe and secure,’ Dice
tells another individual.
“After signing
the petition to ‘implement the Orwellian police state,’ another man
responds,
‘You find the
pot of money though,’ apparently more concerned about how much a Nazi-style
police state would cost than its actual consequences.
“‘They’re
trying to cut the budget by 20 per cent so we just want to make sure that we can
model the police state after the Nazi Germany system,’ Dice tells another couple
who sign the petition, before adding, ‘Thanks for supporting the police
state.’
“‘We’re going
to model it after the Nazi Germany-style police state,’ Dice clearly tells
another man who signs the petition.
“‘We need this
Orwellian-style system to keep everybody safe,’ Dice tells a woman as she is
signing the petition, to which she responds, ‘Yeah.’”
See Watson’s
report: Americans Sign Petition to Support “Nazi-Style Orwellian Police
State”
So, how many
of your friends, relatives, co-workers, neighbors, fellow club members, fellow
pastors, and fellow church members would be willing to sign such a petition as
mentioned above? Probably more than you would think. Why don’t you use Mark
Dice’s technique and go stand with a petition on a street corner in your town or
on a sidewalk outside the entrance of your church and find out? But be prepared
for a shock. It is not just San Diegans that are already wearing the shackles
around their hearts.
Those of us in
the liberty movement are knocking our brains out trying to devise the best
strategy to preserve the vestiges of freedom that are left in this country. The
assaults against our liberties are ubiquitous--and so are the battlefronts upon
which our fellow freedom-fighters are tirelessly and relentlessly defending the
hill. Thank God for every one of them! I may or may not agree with each strategy
or the people who come up with them, but if they are in the liberty fight, they
are my brothers and compatriots.
But it is time
for us to ask ourselves, are we living in a country in which a sizeable
percentage of people do not care about, and may actually not WANT, liberty? Are
we living in a country in which a sizeable percentage of people have already
accepted the shackles of tyranny around their hearts?
I’m talking
about Democrats and Republicans; Christians and unbelievers; pastors and pagans;
liberals and conservatives; whites and blacks; educated and illiterate; rich and
poor; men and women; northerners and southerners; easterners and westerners;
military and civilians. How many are already wearing the shackles of tyranny
around their hearts? I’m afraid far more than most of us want to
admit.
At this point,
I must make the following observation: if you are living in a State that does
not recognize your right to keep and BEAR arms, if you live in a State that
significantly impedes your right to possess and CARRY arms, if you live in a
State that is unfriendly to the Second Amendment, you are living in a State in
which a majority of lawmakers and citizens are already wearing the tyrant’s yoke
around their hearts--and they want you to wear it, too. And if you live in a
large metropolitan city anywhere, you are living in one of liberty’s most
inhospitable and hostile places. In all candor, one of the chief reasons why my
family and I moved to a small town in a rural State (the Flathead Valley of
Montana) is because of what I’m talking about right now.
For more
information on our move to Montana, please go to: Baldwins’ Move To Montana
I realize that
we have our share of big-government weenies here in Montana, too. I know we have
a bunch of politicians and people who carry the shackles of tyranny around their
hearts. I won’t argue that. But I also know that if police agencies in this area
attempted a military lockdown such as took place in Boston after the marathon
bombings, they would start a modern-day revolution. I KNOW that the majority of
people in the Flathead Valley would never submit to such a police state. I also
believe that the vast majority of law enforcement officers in this area would
never attempt to enact such a police state.
As an example,
according to published reports, the average home in the State of Montana has 27
firearms in it. Yes, you read it right: 27. I dare say that the average pickup
truck in Montana has more guns in it than the average house in just about any
other state.
Ladies and
gentlemen, Thomas Jefferson was right: big cities are the “bane” of freedom. And
those states that are controlled by big cities are also a major culprit in the
demise of liberty.
Several years
ago, Boston’s Gun Bible (BGB) ranked the states in order of their recognition of
the right to keep and bear arms. According BGB, the freest states
are:
1.
Vermont
2. Idaho and Kentucky (tie)
3. Louisiana and Alaska (tie)
4. Wyoming
5. Montana
2. Idaho and Kentucky (tie)
3. Louisiana and Alaska (tie)
4. Wyoming
5. Montana
And, again,
according to BGB, the least free states are:
1. New
Jersey
2. Illinois
3. Hawaii
4. Massachusetts
5. New York
2. Illinois
3. Hawaii
4. Massachusetts
5. New York
Now, I would
personally argue BGB’s ranking of Montana as number 5 in the list of freest
states--especially when it comes to the Second Amendment. Regardless, notice the
absence of the dominance of big-cities within the list of freest states,
contrasted with the obvious dominance of big-cities within the list of least
free states. In the list of freest states, only Kentucky and Louisiana have a
metro area with over one million population. And in the case of Vermont, Idaho,
Alaska, Wyoming, and Montana, the State with the largest population is Idaho
with just over 1.5 million--in the ENTIRE STATE. The conclusion should be
obvious: big cities equal less freedom; rural states equal more
freedom.
Ladies and
gentlemen, this divergence of philosophy and the willingness or unwillingness of
people in big city states and rural states to either accept or reject tyranny is
a boiling pot that at some point is going to spill over onto the eye of the
stove. Notice that Mr. Dice’s petition was asked of people in one of America’s
largest population centers: San Diego, California. Take that same petition to
the streets of Kalispell, Montana; Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Cheyenne, Wyoming; or
Wasilla, Alaska; and the response would be MUCH different.
I don’t
believe tyranny will come to America all at once; it will come piecemeal, city
by city, State by State, and region by region. And liberty will be preserved the
same way.
So, are
Americans ready to accept a police state? It all depends on where you
live.
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