8 Signs America is Becoming a Police State

Can you believe it? America is becoming a police state. More and more of our liberties, guaranteed us by the Constitution are being taken away from us. The following are 30 signs that the United States of America is being turned into a police state or as some have suggested a giant prison.

1. In April 2009 the department of Homeland Security issued a report that stated: Christian's who believe in end time prophecies are potentially dangerous.

Historically, domestic rightwing extremists have feared, predicted, and anticipated a cataclysmic economic collapse in the United States. Prominent antigovernment conspiracy theorists have incorporated aspects of an impending economic collapse to intensify fear and paranoia among like-minded individuals and to attract recruits during times of economic uncertainty. Conspiracy theories involving declarations of martial law, impending civil strife or racial conflict, suspension of the U.S. Constitution, and the creation of citizen detention camps often incorporate aspects of a failed economy. Antigovernment conspiracy theories and “end times” prophecies could motivate extremist individuals and groups to stockpile food, ammunition, and weapons. These teachings also have been linked with the radicalization of domestic extremist individuals and groups in the past, such as violent Christian Identity organizations and extremist members of the militia movement. - Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment by the Department of Homeland Security

So I guess the first amendment no longer exists, since they say make the argument that anyone who believes in these teachings straight from the Bible is a potential terrorist. The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government interference. Yet we see here that even teachings from the Bible that are older from then the Consitution is now being deemed as signs of a potential terrorist, thus we can easily see that the government is interfering with the free exercise of the Christian religion, in direct disregard of the first amendment of the U. S. Constitution. Despite the fact that the majority of the founders and writers of the Constitution were Christians themselves, believing in the very things that are now being deemed as signs of potential terrorists. I don't know about you, but this scares me. I love this country, but some high ranking officials are going to far with this one. Are there extremists that seize upon this portion of the Bible? Yes, we all know there is. However, the early founders that signed the Deceleration of Independence would also have been considered "extremists" and antigovernment. So we have to be more careful in who we are calling terrorists.
2. In February 2009, Missouri issued a report called, "MIAC Strategic Report: The Modern Militia Movement" that made the claim that potential terrorists could be those are view the so called "New World Order" as a potential threat, Anti-abortion activists, those that have a negative view of the United Nations, and gasp those that against illegal immigration.
That's tight if you oppose illegal activity you might be terrorist. We aren't talking about legal immigration, we talking illegal immigration. Not only that, if you question the purpose of the United Nations in anyway negatively, you could be a terrorists. But wait if you are "pro-life," you to might be a terrorist. So lets see lets look at myself, I am a Christian believing the Bible to be literal, so because I believe in "end times prophecies," am "pro-life," question the United Nations, am concerned about the "New World Order," and want to see immigrants come to this country legally rather then illegally then they are lumping me into this group despite for my hatred of guns although I do support the second amendment. How can this be? We fought a war against England to gain our freedoms from such tyranny, yet now our own government is treating us this way?
3. So to the FBI has issued a report lists suspicious activities as paying in cash.
   
   

   Insist on paying in cash...
   having missing hands/fingers...
   Make Bulk purchases of items to include:
   Weatherproofed ammunition or match containers
   Meals ready to eat
   Night vision devices; night flashlights; gas mask
   
   - FBI

Really? Ready to eat meals? That's most Americans. There a huge number of people who stock there freezers with ready to eat meals. Even more that has an ample supply of food in their pantries. I guess I should be reporting anyone who buys frozen dinners and prepared meals from my grocery stores deli. Since Dave Ramsey, John Cummuta, and myself all preach against using credit cards and instead paying with cash, we must be terrorists. Give me a break. Do these sound suspicious to you?
4. Feeling a little nervous about something? Well according to a London Telegraph newspaper report in Oct 2011, that could get you classified as a terrorist.
   

   Using cameras and sensors the "pre-crime" system measures and tracks changes in a person's body movements, the pitch of their voice and the rhythm of their speech.
   
   It also monitors breathing patterns, eye movements, blink rate and alterations in body heat, which are used to assess an individual's likelihood to commit a crime.
   
   The Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) programme is already being tested on a group of government employees who volunteered to act as guinea pigs.
   
   The first test was carried out at an undisclosed location in the north-eastern United States.
   
   According to the Department of Homeland Security it was not at an airport, but was at a "large venue that is a suitable substitute for an operational setting".
   - London Telegraph

5. In November 2011, Senator Joe Lieberman sent a letter to Google asking the tech giant to place a "terrorist button" on blogger for readers to flag content as potential terrorist as it as done in November 2010 on it's YouTube site.
   
6. In a bill introduced in Congress by Senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) in November 2011.
   

   In what may be a tale too bizarre to be believed by millions of Americans, the U.S. Senate appears ready to pass a bill that will designate the entire earth, including the United States and its territories, one all-encompassing “battlefield” in the global “war on terror” and authorize the detention of Americans suspected of terrorist ties indefinitely and without trial or even charges being filed that would necessitate a trial.
   
   The bill could come to a vote as early as today, according to a bulletin issued by the American Civil Liberties Union. The legislation “goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans,” the ACLU statement said, describing the bill as having moved toward passage while most Americans were celebrating Thanksgiving and a long holiday weekend for millions of U.S. workers. “The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct American military resources not at an enemy shooting at our military in a war zone, but at American citizens and other civilians far from any battlefield — even people in the United States itself,” the ACLU warned.
   - The New American

   
   The bill which was passed and signed into law allows the U.S. Military to to arrest any and hold any U. S. citizen and hold them indefinitely without trial, in direct contrast to due process. In an article from the PPJ Gazette there are three unconstitutional things this new law does
   

   1) Explicitly authorize the federal government to indefinitely imprison without charge or trial American citizens and others picked up inside and outside the United States;
   (2) Mandate military detention of some civilians who would otherwise be outside of military control, including civilians picked up within the United States itself; and
   (3) Transfer to the Department of Defense core prosecutorial, investigative, law enforcement, penal, and custodial authority and responsibility now held by the Department of Justice.
   Yes the Illuminati and Barak Obama, are passing into legislation the right to arrest anyone anywhere without trial and dispose of them by any means they see fit. The book of Revelation had a name for this time period; the beginning of the three years of tribulation. No opposition will be tolerated. All opposition will be silenced.
   - PPJ Gazette

   
   
7. According to Wired Magazine, American Government agencies have set up fake cell towers.
   

   You make a call on your cellphone thinking the only thing standing between you and the recipient of your call is your carrier’s cellphone tower. In fact, that tower your phone is connecting to just might be a boobytrap set up by law enforcement to ensnare your phone signals and maybe even the content of your calls.
   
   So-called stingrays are one of the new high-tech tools that authorities are using to track and identify you. The devices, about the size of a suitcase, spoof a legitimate cellphone tower in order to trick nearby cellphones and other wireless communication devices into connecting to the tower, as they would to a real cellphone tower.
   
   The government maintains that the stingrays don’t violate Fourth Amendment rights, since Americans don’t have a legitimate expectation of privacy for data sent from their mobile phones and other wireless devices to a cell tower. While the technology sounds ultra-new, the feds have had this in their arsenal for at least 15 years, and used a stingray to bust the notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick in 1995.
   - Wired Magazine

   No legitimate right to privacy? Say what? Again there goes our American Government as it basically tries to burn the Constitution. Someone tell me I am dreaming, please. Then wake me up. Is this really happening? So many attempts to walk on the Constitution. How can this be? When will us Americans wake up? Please someone! Anyone! Take a stand and tell the government to start following the Constitution.
   
Finally, even though there are many more examples the last one I am going to list is this one.
8. According to the Washington Post, in Washington D.C. the movements of every single car are tracked using automated license plate readers (ALPRs).
   

   More than 250 cameras in the District and its suburbs scan license plates in real time, helping police pinpoint stolen cars and fleeing killers. But the program quietly has expanded beyond what anyone had imagined even a few years ago.
   
   With virtually no public debate, police agencies have begun storing the information from the cameras, building databases that document the travels of millions of vehicles.
   
   Nowhere is that more prevalent than in the District, which has more than one plate-reader per square mile, the highest concentration in the nation. Police in the Washington suburbs have dozens of them as well, and local agencies plan to add many more in coming months, creating a comprehensive dragnet that will include all the approaches into the District.
   
   - Washington Post

   It can sound good when a criminal is arrested, especially a murderer, but the article continues and says.
   

   “It never stops,” said Capt. Kevin Reardon, who runs Arlington County’s plate reader program. “It just gobbles up tag information. One of the big questions is, what do we do with the information?”
   
   Police departments are grappling with how long to store the information and how to balance privacy concerns against the value the data provide to investigators. The data are kept for three years in the District, two years in Alexandria, a year in Prince George’s County and a Maryland state database, and about a month in many other suburban areas.
   - Washington Post

That's what makes this scary. They are just tracking everyone with the obscure hope of catching a criminal.

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