It Has Happened Here in America: The Police State is Real

The Bush regime’s response to 9/11 and the Obama regime’s validation of this response have destroyed accountable democratic government in the United States.

So much unaccountable power has been concentrated in the executive branch that the US Constitution is no longer an operable document.

Whether a person believes the official story of 9/11 which rests on unproven government assertions or believes the documented evidence provided by a large number of scientists, first responders, and structural engineers and architects, the result is the same. 9/11 was used to create an open-ended “war on terror” and a police state. It is extraordinary that so many Americans believe that “it can’t happen here” when it already has.

We have had a decade of highly visible evidence of the construction of a police state:

the PATRIOT Act, illegal spying on Americans in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,

the initiation of wars of aggression–war crimes under the Nuremberg Standard–based on intentional lies,

the Justice Department’s concocted legal memos justifying the executive branch’s violation of domestic and international laws against

torture, the indefinite detention of US citizens in violation of the constitutionally protected rights of habeas corpus and due process,

the use of secret evidence and secret “expert witnesses” who cannot be cross-examined against defendants in trials,

the creation of military tribunals in order to evade federal courts, secret legal memos giving the president authority to launch preemptive cyber attacks on any country without providing evidence that the country constitutes a threat, and the Obama regime’s murder of US citizens without evidence or due process

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