When did America Head down the road to being a Fascist police state?

Apparently another memo I missed.

This first bit is so unbelievable that I at first thought it was a joke. Sadly, it’s no joke.

A man in Illinois is facing up to 75 years in prison because he recorded his conversations with Illinois police. (As an aside, remember that Chicago is the capital of some of  the most draconian gun laws in the country and oddly enough one of the most crime ridden cities in America.)

The bottom line is that Michael Allison recorded his encounters with the police. And the police apparently didn’t like it.

A follow-on piece reports that a judge has ruled the case against this man is unconstitutional

And predictably the state of Illinois has filed an Appeal

In the last piece they briefly put up a map showing the states that have anti-recording laws of law enforcement. Surprisingly, California has laws of this type in place.

When did our Law Enforcement get so terrified of the public? Most of the time they’re doing what they’re supposed to do and we, the public agree. Having the public watching your fellow officers means that any “Bad” officers get removed from duty before they give all law enforcement a bad name.

The concept that Law Enforcement is above the law… is what gets everyone in trouble. Unless of course your end goal is to create a Jack-Booted cadre of thugs that do the politicians bidding and not the peoples.

Of even further concern is this little piece from Jon Stewart.

The rest is here I think, sorry for the commercials but this is important to our future.

These kinds of amendments being added to necessary “MUST-Pass” legislation are without question one of the most damaging things happening to our country.

The accumulation of these abridgments to our personal freedoms will eventually subvert the Constitution. Listen carefully to the description of “Potential Terrorists”!

These two pieces are long, and yes they’re done with Stewart poking fun at the situation but the legislation has passed and it is now heading to the Presidents desk.

We need to pay a lot closer attention to our politicians. If this insanity is passed…

Under the description of potential terrorists, Virtually all Mormons could be construed as terrorists. They could be arrested without access to due process and detained indeffinately.

Why? The tenants of their faith call for preparedness. Food should be stored, supplies, yes, even hunting rifles with ammunition.

By definition ammunition that is kept properly is in weatherproof containers. That’s two out of three terrorist criteria.

Does that mean if a Fundamentalist Southern Baptist Christian president is elected that he or she will be able to imprison Salt Lake City? Yep… And there’s not a damn thing anyone could do about it.

Interested in politics yet?

You really should be,.. 

Remember the Poem; (Thanks to Wikipedia)

First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

“First they came…” is a famous statement attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group. The text of the quotation is usually presented roughly as above.

Folks, this cautionary tale is relevant TODAY, right NOW.

It’s not some dusty old tome from history talking about things that only happened long ago, far away, in another country.

This poem / commentary is just one slippery slope from happening in our country.

Time to wake up America…