Brad Miller

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Out of Control Police State: Do you feel any safer?

In True nature of the State on February 18, 2012 at 9:01 pm

Today in America we are accosted by agents of the Government on a daily basis. There isn’t an aspect of your life that isn’t governed or policed. Now more than ever peaceful activities of individuals are being regulated by bureaucrats at all levels of Government.

People seem to forget that at one time there were almost no police in America and most people forget that the FBI didn’t even exist until the prohibition era. Government creates its own market. If alcohol was never outlawed the gangsters would have never risen to power, the FBI would not have come into being and the IRS which was used to bring in a bunch of the racketeers, would not have the power it has today.

Government produces one product and that is force. It uses this force to limit the activities of everyone who lives within its sphere of power. It incidentally resembles the Mafia in every respect. Maybe that’s why it targets it so much.

With the prohibition of Gambling, PRostitution and Drugs the government creates criminals and thus demands larger and larger police forces to combat these “evil doers”. That is how the police state grew in the past. The mafia and tax cheats were the biggest offenders. But in the last two decades the explosion of the police state can be attributed to two things 1. Drug Prohibition and 2. Terrorism.

Drug Prohibition could go away tomorrow and that would save the lives of tens of thousands of people across central and south america and around the world, as well as empty more than fifty percent of the prisoners serving jail time in the U.S. This Policing of the use of drugs has led not only to the killings of innocent individuals but was the first step in the militarization of the Police. SWAT teams have been developed to deal with drug dealers who are merely fulfilling a demand by customers. Think about that. I don’t even like the term drug dealer. Think about how the State manipulates the language. What is a pharmacist? A drug dealer, except with a permission slip from the government to dispense only “certified” government approved drugs to individuals. So a street drug dealer should really be called a street pharmacist or black market pharmacist or even a freedom pharmacist.

But nothing has led to the expansion of the Police State in America more than the overblown threat of terrorism. Did you know 90% of the foiled attempted terrorists plots are those that have been arranged by the FBI? That is crazy. They entrap these impressionable kids and give them fake bombs and even plan out the fake attacks, befriend these people and then arrest them. I don’t think the Government should be allowed to lie. All this undercover operations and drug entrapment is wrong.

Terrorism is a byproduct of U.S. Government action. If we had not had huge military bases in Saudi Arabia  9/11 may have never happened. The planners of the attacks site specifically the presences of U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia as the main reason for the attack. Why do you think the Pentagon and World Trade Towers were hit? They didn’t go after schools or shopping malls or the Superbowl.

Now the police are monitoring every phone call, all social media, all texts and any other form of communication. What are they searching for? They are searching for anyone who threatens their power. I heard one NSA guy say that the Government is not interested in listening to your phone calls about your last date or what you had for dinner. But they can do it!!! That’s the point. The shouldnt be listening to anyone’s phone conversations. If we weren’t going around the world killing untold number of brothers, husbands, and fathers, not to mention the thousands of women and children the Federal Government wouldn’t have to be so paranoid.

You may think that this applies only to the Federal Level  and not to the State and local levels. . In fact the more the Federal Police State grows and the more the military and intelligence complex grows the more the local and State police grow as well. The funding for a lot of what the local and State police get is from the Federal Level. They use this to direct the activities of the different departments, make them a subsidiary to the Homeland Security, Department of Defense, the DEA, and ATF.

Now more than ever police departments have armored cars, high-tech surveillance gear, and military style weapons. Have you seen a SWAT team officer lately? He looks like he belongs in Afghanistan and not on the streets of Atlanta. But this goes along with how the politician’s view America today. Senator McCain spoke out in defense of the ability of the Federal Government to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens caught on U.S. soil who are deemed a “terrorist” without trial because America is now a battlefield!!! How scary is that?
The last time America was a battlefield it was during the Civil War or more accurately the War of Succession by the Southern States and how did Abraham Lincoln handle this? By suspending habeas corpus, instituting Martial Law and having Military Tribunals for “Terrorists” and “enemy combatants”. Is this the future we have in store for us?

The Federal Police are out of hand, privacy no longer exists, they can write their own search warrants, and deem anyone they want a terrorist and have the authority to make that person disappear. And they are increasingly colluding with the Local and State law enforcement. Do yourself a favor and Google fusion centers and see exactly what I mean.

In the news on a regular basis the “cooperation” of the Federalis and local cops is being documented. Why is L.A. deploying a military style command center to watch over the city? Why is FEMA and Department of Health and Human services buying up huge warehouses whose locations are secret? Why has the military conducted joint operations in L.A. with the local police? I don’t know I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.

“When the people fear the government there is tyranny. When the Government fears the people there is freedom.” Thomas Jefferson

The local police are no better. Why do you think there are so many cameras along the highways now? In some places it’s every third of a mile? What about all the guard rails going up? What about all the metered on-ramps? And also the countdown signs at cross walks. These people think we are either morons and terrorists. And what about the speed traps, the entrapment for prostitution and buying drugs?

If there were no prohibition on Gambling, Drugs and prostitution the police would take a drastic cut. They are in the business of self-preservation just like the generals and defense contractors are.  War is the health of the State. The War against Drugs, Prostitution and Gambling is the health of local law enforcement agencies.

I want to be free and left alone. I want to be able to put into my body what I choose to. I want to be able to pay a woman for sex if I choose to. I want to have the choice to gamble with whomever I choose to. I’m not saying I’d do any of these things but it would be my choice. The consequences of my actions will still rest squarely on my shoulders so if I get hooked on heroin and lose my job that’s my fault. If I contract venereal disease from a Lady of the Night that’s my fault (but that is highly unlikely if we look at legal prostitution in Nevada), and if I lose all my money gambling I will be broke. I don’t need a police officer to tell me that.

“An Anarchist is anyone who doesn’t need a police officer to tell him what to do.”

I know there are bad people in this world. But has there ever been a document written or a revolution fought against an individual? Stated differently only Government has throughout the course of history slaughtered millions, enslaved millions, stolen trillions and laid waste to much of the world at one time or another. Individuals acting on their own without the structure and bureaucracy of the Nation State can never threaten the life, liberty and property like Government does. And why was the second amendment added to the Constitution? Its primary purpose was that individuals would always be able to overthrow a tyrannical government if it; instead of Defending the Natural Rights of its CItizens violated them.

That was the founder’s thinking. My thinking is that no government is necessary. Individuals acting according to their self-interest and trading voluntarily with others can create a peaceful society in which no collective force of government is necessary. But until that happens I hope that the Police State will be reigned in.

If it’s not the senseless deaths of thousands will continue here and around the world. Two quick stories that illustrate how out of control the police are here and abroad.

A fifty year old man holding his grandson was shot and killed by SWAT officer recently. The man’s crime? He had kicked a neighbors trash can earlier in the day. That sounds like a raving mad man who needs to be put down right? Anyway it turns out he fits the profile of a “Sovereign Citizen” Which the FBI recently alerted Local Law Enforcement as a movement dangerous to police. Needless to say that this must be a huge crisis for the FBI to alert the whole country to right? Wrong. There were less than thirty incidents with so-called Sovereign Citizens in the last three years. One of them did end in the shooting of a Local Cop. But why isn’t there an alert to all individuals to warn us of the dangerous and deadly nature of SWAT OFFICERS? By the way the granddad was not armed and was putting the child down when he was shot in the head.

That’s on the local level. Now let’s take this idea of the Police State that’s out of control onto the International Stage. I coud cite the death toll on the Mexican border but that’s been reported and not many people care. The response to that has been typical, more funds for more police and more military style hardware for local law enforcement. No the story I want to tell you is happening right now in Afghanistan and it’s because of the “War on Drugs”.

If you think that the War on Drugs should not be ended on the grounds of individual liberty, or the out of control expense or the crime created by the prohibition it creates, then this story might help sway you.

Poppy farmers in Afghanistan grow somewhere between 75-90% of the poppy in the world. Now most people don’t realize that most of these farms are small plots of land tended by individual farmers and their families. And these small farmers borrow the money from the drug dealers to finance the buying of the land and the growing of the poppy. Then when harvest time comes, the drug dealers come along and collect what’s due them out of the harvest and give the farmer his remuneration for his work. Unfortunately the War on Drugs in the U.S. and the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan has led to the destruction of many of these small farmers’ fields.

I’m sure the drug dealers who leant the money to these farmers will understand its the U.S. government’s fault because their military provides security for the Afghan Police to destroy their crops right?  Wrong. The Drug Dealers take the children of the farmers to settle the debt. I’ll repeat that. They take the Children, little kids boys and girls as payment for the debts if the poppy fields have been destroyed. This is an epidemic in Afghanistan. Families have to choose which child they are to give up. The kids are put to work for the drug dealers and sexually abused. When I saw the story on PBS I had tears in my eyes. One little girl whose 12 watched the drug dealers take her sister and they told her family they would be back for her. Now her family is having to go from town to town to stay ahead of them. With tears in her eyes she said ” if they come for me, I will kill myself. What other choice do I have?”

This little girl feels like she doesn’t have a choice but Americans do. We can vote for a  President who will end the Federal War on Drugs, and bring the troops home immediatley. The only two candidates who pledge to do this are Ron Paul and Gary Johnson.

When Politicians make laws that destroy individual liberty and the police enforce these laws ,lives of peaceful people are destroyed. That is why it’s so important to remember Liberty is indivisible. And whether liberty is destroyed by the prohibition of drugs in America or the occupation of foreign lands, these actions directly destroy individual lives far more than any terrorist or drug use could ever do.

By the way no one has been fired from the Government or gone to jail because of the failure of their duties to protect the life and property of the American people.

Do you believe there is a terrorist around every corner? Do you believe you can’t trust your neighbor? Do you believe as a lot of politicians believe that citizens should be disarmed?” If so keep voting the same way. Keep trusting what the Government tells you. Believe that the police are here to serve and protect and that the War on Drugs, the War on Terror and the War on Individual Liberty are good and help keep us all safe.

Do you feel safer with the trillion-dollar military budget? Do you feel safer that poppy farmers in Afghanistan have to give up their children to settle debts because of the U.S. policy of destroying poppy fields? Do you feel safer that SWAT teams look like Special Operations Operators, have Armored cars and are increasingly assisted by the Feds with Drone Surveillance? Do you feel safer knowing that there will be a projected 30,00 drones in the skies of America in the next 3 years? Do you feel safer that the jails are full of people whose only crime is the consumption of a substance? Do you feel safer that cops target you for speeding but don’t go after those who steal your check book and pass bad checks all over town? Do you feel safer that the line between the military and local police has been erased? Do you feel safer that America is now considered a battlefield?

And if America is a battlefield then its just a matter of time before the collateral damage begins piling up. I believe it’s already started. This is a long post becasue the Police State violates your natural rights of privacy, life, liberty and property on a daily basis. You desrved to be free from any intrustion into your life. You should have Zero dealings with anyone from the Government on a daily basis unless you violate the Natural Rights of others. Unforntunatley we do not yet live in such a world. All we need is 33% of the population to want to be free. That is 100 million Americas who understand the concept of Natural Rights and want to live under a system in Which the govenrment only exists to combat force and fraud.

This is the minarchist view and its a stepping stone toward a stateless society. I believe that there are enough of us right now to make this happen. Our job is to help one person to see the light and vote for Ron Paul or Gary Johnson. I can see a Free America Again and it can happen faster than you think. 100 million is very doable. The rest of the population will come along just as they did during the American Revolution. Which today I advocate for a purely peaceful second Revolution. The Revolution must take place within the hearts and minds of our friends and families first. I feel like its closer than we think.

 

Brad Miller

AdvocateofLiberty and Peace

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Predator Drones over Peoria? Say it ain’t so.

In True nature of the State on December 13, 2011 at 1:00 am

The Predator Drones are hunting new prey. And its U.S. Citizens on U.S. soil!!!

Well the Predator Drones are not over Peoria yet, as far as I know. But it has just been discovered  that the U.S. customs and border patrol have taken it upon themselves to run surveillance missions to help local law enforcement in North Dakota. Now let that soak in. Military hardware that flies two miles above the Earth is being used to “spy” on U.S. citizens.

I told some folks this today and they simply shrugged their shoulders and said they would be bored if they looked at what I was doing. I was blown away. ITs not about what you are doing. The point is that we in this Country have lost the desire to privacy. We have taken it to heart that the government not only owns the land upon which we live, they own the airwaves, they own the internet and they own us.

“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy”. Ayn Rand.

A recent Supreme Court Decision determined that you have no “expectation of location privacy”. That is insane. The government can track your every move without even a warrant. The government can know where you are at all times. This is an extension of the Red Light cameras at traffic stops, cameras on the streets of every major city and traffic cameras along the highways.  The first question to ask is why would they want to do this?  Why do they want to keep such a close eye upon their citizenry? Is it to keep us safe? Is it to make our lives better? I

The answer is simply  the STATE wants to control and manage every aspect of our lives. The same people who believe that the flying Predator of  Drones over U.S. is a good thing are the same people who believe that Stalin was a terrible person but that Communism is still a good idea.

The Same People who want the Predator Drones flying over all our heads in the name of safety and order, are the same who believe in a planned economy, in regulating the hell out of everything an individual does. They believe in the Socialist Mantra: ”If you can measure it you can manage it.” Or stated differently; if you can gather intel on the citizenry from two miles above you can plan their lives in great detail.

How better to manage a population then by flying unstoppable Predator Drones to first spy on them, to see what they are up to then to eventually control the population by arming these drones, so the State can kill at will any citizen they deem “undesirable”.

Remember all these platforms which start as purely surveillance are always, always, eventually armed. Look at the history of military aviation and the evolution of Unmanned Ariel vehicles overseas. They’ve been armed and used overseas now they will be armed and used here at home.

Where is the hippie left resisting the War machine being unloosed on the citizenry at home? Where are the conservatives who claim to desire  freedom but embrace every State initiative to limit it? Where are the Liberals who claim to want less war and more peace?

I see the world rapidly brining to fruition Orwell’s prediction that “if you want a vision of the future of humanity, imagine a boot stamping on a human face.”

That boot my friends will not need to be worn by a policeman or even a soldier.  If these drones continue to fly over head the boots upon our necks will be two miles above our heads but instead of a boot it  will be a hellfire missile traveling at 1.3 times the speed of sound coming down upon you.

Who doesn’t think that the Predator Drones in the United States will be soon armed? Who doesn’t think that in the next 12 months or so that the Predator Drones will be used to “thwart” a terrorist attack on U.S. soil and thus give the Feds carte blanche to keep flying armed Predators in the skies of America? Even though most of the recent thwarted terrorists plots on U.S. soil were actually manufactured by the Feds themselves.

It almost seems surreal to see the conspiracy theories come true. I feel like I’m Mel Gibson’s Character in the movie “Conspiracy Theory:”  What if there are riots in America on a scope and scale never seen before? What if those riots are met not with riot police but with one, two, five, or more Predator Drones launching Hell Fire Missles into the crowds to take out the leaders?

Just recently the Senate, thankfully voted down a measure to allow the kill/capture of any U.S. citizen around the world including on U.S. soil who were deemed a “terrorist” . This would be the elimination of all the protections of the Constitution that U.S. citizens have enjoyed for the last two plus centuries and would have lead to permanent detention or even summary execution of alleged citizens deemed ”terrorists”. But to me once an idea like this is floated it is a matter of time before it becomes law. Just the mere fact that we have Predator Drones flying over U.S. soil aiding law enforcement and the Senate almost in one foul swoop destroying what’s left of our COnstitutional rights makes me think that this issue of summary execution of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil will occur.

What’s worse is how the Predator Drones  came into existence in the first place  and why the Custom and Border Patrol Agents have them in their arsenal. They have them because of the destruction of individual liberty in this country and the Fed’s endless appetite for war overseas. If there was no prohibition on Drugs we would not need the Predators at the border, if we did not have a welfare state and crushing taxes, then no one would care who came to the country searching for work.  If the Feds stopped the government intervention overseas we wouldn’t have needed to be developing these Predator Drones.

The Destruction of a person’s expectation of Privacy doesn’t disappear over night.  But if I had to point to a singular event in the recent memory as the point where people totally gave up there desire for privacy was the deployment and acceptance of the TSA scanners. These “porn scanners” violate an individual’s most sacred right to personal privacy, the privacy of their own bodies. If individuals think the government has a right to look under one’s clothes why shouldnt they have a right to look at your house, your car, you person from 2 miles in the sky. Does anyone else feel like the Predator Drones flying above U.S. soil feels like a modern version of the Sword of Damocles?

Liberty is simple. Coercion is not. When government acts to “govern” the peaceful non-violent activity of individuals it begins an unending process which ultimately leads to death camps and assassinations. We are seeing the seeds planted today. Just a few months ago an American citizen was murdered by a Predator Drone overseas. No trial, no presentation of evidence, nothing. Now if it can happen overseas why can’t it happen here?

At least with the police you are dealing with a human being standing in front of you even though they often don’t act like one. But with the Predator Drones you have someone in a trailer maybe hundreds or even thousands of miles away looking at computer screens. There is no empathy there is no emotion. It is pure emotional detachment. This is the same type of emotional detachment, implemented  in the U.S. with technology instead of propaganda in WWII Germany, that the Nazis employed to get normal hard-working, God-fearing men to push millions of Jews into Cattle Cars, house them in Death Camps, and kill millions of men, women, and children by shooting them, staving them and gassing them with Zyklon B.

Where is the fury? Where is the outrage? Where is the American Spirit of Individualism which once spoke so loudly that we don’t need a babysitter we don’t need a nanny, We are each individuals and are thus self responsible. We are each Individuals and we will each figure out how best to live our own lives. We are each individuals and as such do not want, and don’t need the oppressive Militarized Police State destroying what Liberties we still enjoy today.

America, I am worried. I am worried that not enough American Citizens care. That the consent of the majority or rather the apathy of the majority will allow this to continue. Just think about sitting at an intersection and because of something you’ve written on your blog you’ve been “targeted”. Now you won’t even know when the hellfire missile hits your car. These missiles are 100 hundred pounds with a 20 lb explosive charge meant to destroy 60 ton main battle tanks. In an instance without any warning you are vaporized. Not by a terrorist, not by Iranian Nukes, not by a Chinese bomb, but by your own Federal Government whose tax dollars they stole from you which in part paid for the Predator Drone, the Drone Pilot’s training and salary and the missile that just took  your life.

This is not science fiction or the realm of conspiracy theories any longer. The dots are connecting and I am afraid they are the same dots that led the East Germans, the Soviets, the Cambodians and the Nazis to build the fearful Tyrannical Engines of Terror that took hundreds of millions of lives in the 20th century.

That is why I urge everyone to vote for Ron Paul. He is not going to tolerate this kind of Military cooperation with the local police departments. Hope dies last is an old Russian saying and it seems that the worse things get the more the solutions for these problems emerge. I know that most Americans are Fed up with the Feds and are hungry for hope. That is why I believe that more and more Americans will turn out on Nov. 8th 2012 and Vote for Ron Paul.
Brad Miller

Advocateofliberty

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