Are Americans Living in a Police State?

Alan Caruba of Canada Free Press has this shocking story to tell, "Are Americans Living in a Police State?" and he has a link to another shocking story Of "Obama’s Police State: A List of Obama’s 55 Worst Assaults on Civil Liberties" that I will post also right after I post Alan's.

Believe them or not. It is always up to you to decide, but I feel it is imperative for me as a person to warn my readers of what appears to be potentially a very dangerous situation.

Notice how often Obama issues executive orders when the population is absorbed in a holiday.

Read more

Bruce

'The thing about a police state is that it tends to creep up on you. One day you think the Bill of Rights is intact and the freedoms you take for granted are intact, but the next day you find out that under the National Defense Authorization Act (HR 1540), signed into law by President Obama on December 31, 2011, you can be arrested and detained without recourse to an attorney or the courts.

HR 1540 kills the concept of Habeas Corpus by permitting the detention of U.S. citizens without trial. In 2009 the National Emergency Centers Act, HR 645, was introduced for the establishment of “internment camps.” I have not been able to determine if it was passed and signed into law, nor have I found any explanation why the Congress of the United States either passed or even considered these laws.

The 2001 Patriot Act was justified as a response to 9/11 and revised in 2012. It gives the government unprecedented powers of surveillance and enforcement in the name of deterring terrorism.
...
One can find a list of actions by the Obama administration that, together, portray preparations for the implementation of a police state as Americans are detained, as per a DHS report, because they are deemed to be potential terrorists because they hold beliefs and ideologies that include:
•“being fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to international in orientation)”
•“anti-global”
•“suspicious of centralized federal authority”
•“reverent of individual liberty”
•“believe in conspiracy theories”
•“a belief that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack”
•“a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism”
•“impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)”
•“anti-abortion”

And those are just some of the “suspicious” activities or beliefs that can get you hauled off to a detention camp without the benefit of a trial.'