So, what does a police state look like?
A police state is place where massive amounts of government corruption and/or incompetence are covered up by an equally corrupt and/or incompetent media. It is a place where a film-maker's first amendment rights are secondary to the sensibilities of murderous mobs "offended" by that film.
It is a place where the Los Angeles Police Department "visits" the home of the film-maker in the dead of night and "invites" him to be "interviewed," to see if he violated the terms of his parole by using a computer for something other than business, which apparently doesn't include the right to upload a film onto the internet.
It is a place where the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee applauds reports that federal authorities are investigating that same film-maker. “I'm very pleased to learn...people have been arrested” in conjunction with the murder of four State Department officials in Libya, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. “And I believe an investigation is going on in this country concerning the individual who did this very obnoxious, 12-minute preview of some very stupid movie and wrong-headed movie."
It is a place where the ruling regime "suggests" that YouTube, the website that posted the movie, "review" it policy for posting such movies. “We reached out to YouTube to call the video to their attention and ask them to review whether it violates their terms of use,” said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
It is a place where the utter incompetence of the administration's foreign policy initiatives, leading directly to sieges perpetrated against our embassies, as well as the deaths of four Americans, are ferociously tamped down by the police state media, who then focus all of their energies on attacking a presidential candidate with the temerity to illuminate that incompetence.
It is a place where the last vestiges of genuine investigative journalism is casually dismissed by a regime official. "I'm going to frustrate all of you, infinitely, by telling you that now that we have an open FBI investigation on the death of these four Americans, we are not going to be in a position to talk at all about what the U.S. government may or may not be learning about how any of this this happened--not who they were, not how it happened, not what happened to Ambassador Stevens, not any of it--until the Justice Department is ready to talk about the investigation that's its got," State Department spokeswoman Victorian Nuland told reporters late Friday afternoon. "So I'm going to send you to the FBI for those kinds of questions and they're probably not going to talk to you about it," she added.
It is a place where the leader of the ruling regime apologizes for the Constitutional values he has sworn to uphold. “I have made it clear that the United States has a profound respect for people of all faiths. We stand for religious freedom. And we reject the denigration of any religion--including Islam,” said Barack Obama. Make that only Islam. Denigrating Christianity is something Hollywood has done for years. And the regime has made it more than clear that those same Christians must subjugate their religious beliefs to the regime's healthcare bill, even as the regime's media apparatchiks characterize anyone who stands up for genuine religious freedom as waging a "war against women."
In his 1967 inaugural address as the newly-elected Governor of California, former president Ronald Reagan said that "freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." Since that time America has had two generations of public school children marinated in an illiterate environment of know-nothing feel-goodism. As such, they are either cannon fodder at best, or willing participants at worst, in the gradual extinction of freedom in this nation.
It is a nation where a panel of people on MSNBC can conclude, without shame or remorse for their all-ecompassing ignorance, that the film-maker, along with an incendiary Florida preacher who "insulted" Muslims, should be indicted as accessories to the murder of the four Americans killed in Libya. “Good morning,” declared University of Pennsylvania professor Anthea Butler, “How soon is (the film-maker) going to be in jail folks? I need him to go now.” Pundit Mike Barnacle aimed his Constitutional-free wrath at the preacher. “Given this supposed minister’s role in last year’s riots in Afghanistan, where people died, and given his apparent or his alleged role in this film, where...at least one American, perhaps the American ambassador, is dead, it might be time for the Department of Justice to start viewing his role as an accessory before or after the fact.”
In the space of a week, America has taken a giant step towards become a police state. Judging by the above exchange, that suits some Americans just fine--as long as the "right" people are doing the subjugating. Add another large dollop of Americans who wouldn't have the remotest idea anything is going wrong unless someone took away their latest I-phone or their favorite TV show, and one begins to wonder when the regime thugs and their useful idiots in the media drop all pretenses.
Free nations don't take a film-maker from his house for questioning, threaten an internet site for posting his movie, and get their minions in the press to approve every bit of it, even as they excuse the murder and savagery of Islamic fanatics who now know there is no price to pay for assaulting our embassies and murdering our personnel. And just in case you missed it, four more American soldiers were executed by yet another Afghan "trainee" who turned his weapon on them.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that on November 6th, Americans will either toss progressivism on the ash heap of history where is so richly belongs--or they will be enslaved by it, perhaps permanently. The scariest part of the equation? A substantial number of Americans are more than ready to embrace their subjugators for the most corrupt reason of all: they believe enslavement is easier than taking responsibility for one's own life.
