Police State; Quality versus Quantity

Quality

One fixated anonymous troll who posts here often suggested that he could document certain events via "fragments" of police reports he had "received". Having been at the scene of this event I had some idea of the viewable facts of the matter. Police reports are less credible than statements made by most people you may meet at random. Now I understand this may be a pretty bold statement and will draw cries of protest from some, though not many, the history is pretty clear and the disdain that law enforcement has for the law is legendary. It is their resentment of legal restriction that has led the Bush Administration to do so much to circumvent due process, to have "sneak a peek" policies imbedded into the (un)-Patriot Act for one thing. Sneak-a-Peek means warrentless searches. They have been doing this for a long time anyway. During the 80s I began monitoring police activities here in Humboldt County, California when the CAMP program began and after people claimed that the police were breaking a lot of laws including treetop level flying, warrentless searches, stealing four wheelers and so on. It all turned out to be true, we got injunctions restricting them to the FAA safety regulation 500 feet, plenty low enough to spot pot, especially in the quantities they claimed to be looking for. I got some evidence of the theft only due to underlings slipping on the radio and many, many first person stories, mostly from credible people. We got one judgement for a family that had their property trashed because it was on a ridge top and had a good place to land a helicopter. Everywhere that CAMP went they trashed and "confiscated" everything they could regardless of whether or not their was any sort of illegal activity going on because of the ignorance and contempt of their leaders. And the ineptitude. The incredible ineptitude. Pot was grown very openly here at that time in huge quantities of often gigantic plants some as much as 10 pounds. In spite of that they performed sweeps of the whole population and targeted their political critics. The land I lived on was searched from the air all day on the first day of their 1995 operations. There was no dope to find but they persisted with one team after another for 8 to 12 hours in spite of the fact that they could easily have filled their nets with dope and loot from other nearby areas. I have all of this on video and much of their radio communications too.

Now, 20 years later, they still are out trying to bust college kids for joints while speed is destroying the lives of many, many people in America today. Speed, as I have gone on about in previous posts, is a favorite of the right wingers. Timothy McVeigh and his aryan militia associates were heavy users, and that it is typical of the right wing. It was invented it in Germany. Hitler used it and cocaine from the time Henry Ford and others in Prescott Bush's circle began to back him circa 1920 up through until the end when he died in his hidey hole. His troops marched on the stuff and the SS used an even more potent form along with steroids. Today, under increased pressure to do something about the speed epidemic the Bush administration made some lame excuses and a mealy mouthed affirmation that they will be doing more. But you can bet that the emphasis will remain on undermining medical pot laws and "eradicating" pot grows all over the world.

Quantity

Since the first days of CAMP law enforcement agents of different sorts have increased in number exponentially as has the prison population in the U.S. now the greatest on earth. You are not only more likely to go to prison in America than in any other country on earth, you are more likely to go to jail for something you did not do or something that is very trivial. A friend of mine shared a house in southern California a few years ago with a vice squad cop who told him they planted evidence on people regularly. Because they just "knew" they were "dirty". They just couldn't get actual evidence. Now that the quantity of police has increased so vastly and they have succeeded in getting the crimnals who run our government to get rid of those pesky pro-democracy civil rights laws, due process, and that silly "guilty until proven innocent: business we can only assume that the reign of terror will spread. It will spread as more and more American's jobs are outsourced to countries with virtual slavery or a better educated work force. It will spread to the suburbs and the middle class as BushCo's mismanagement and criminal activities become worse and better known. They will get desperate. The Nazis started Union leaders and Communists but rapidly moved on to street people. They were an eyesore, a burden and there were lots of them. "Crazy" people too. They researched their mass murder tecniques on them. Then came the Roma people, (gypsies) and then the Jews. Finally they turned on their "Christian right" who's support they had bought at the begining by giving them economic advantages. As their power increased the Nazi's broadened their brush strokes to include more and more people with less and less "evidence" of any wrongdoing. In 1945 one guilt ridden Lutheran Pastor wrote the following famous words;

First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.

by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945