Tyranny is no longer ‘Lurking’
Townhall – Cal Thomas – 5/21/2013
The testimony that came out
of the recent House Ways and Means Committee hearing is just a part of what
constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead writes about in his new book, "A
Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State." It sounds
alarmist, but reading it should sound an alarm for every American.
The summary on the book jacket
says Whitehead "paints a chilling portrait of a nation in the final stages
of transformation into a police state." Examples include the growing
number of "surveillance cameras, drug-sniffing dogs, SWAT raids, roadside
strip searches, blood draws at DUI checkpoints, drones, GPS tracking devices,
zero tolerance policies, over-criminalization, and free speech zones."
In his introduction to the
book, writer and First Amendment authority Nat Hentoff says: "...I believe
we are in a worse state now than ever before in this country. With the
surveillance state closing in on us, we are fighting to keep our country free
from our own government."
Like most tyrannies, this
one is being ushered in with a smile. The public is told it is for our
"security" and that it's good for us. With taxation, we are told the
government "needs" our money and if we complain they are taking too
much and wasting it, we're thought to be "greedy" and "unfair."
Thomas Jefferson foresaw
what can happen when power corrupts: "Experience hath shewn, that even
under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time,
and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
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