Is Our Country Turning Into A Police State?

By Semperpapa

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall be issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Does anyone know what these words are from? Yes, these are the textual words of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. It is one of the Amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights as intended by James Madison when he introduced them to the first United States Congress in 1789.
The purpose of the Fourth Amendment is t safeguard the American people from a government that would conduct house to house searches without warrants and probable cause. It is intended to protect individuals from intrusion on the part of the authorities that are not properly documented as necessary in the interest of national security and/or public safety.

The disturbing trend that is showing up these days is an increasingly disregard of the right guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.

Just last week, the Indiana Supreme Court, in a 3-2 decision, basically destroyed the Fourth Amendment rights of the people of Indiana. The justice who wrote the decision tells, among other things that
"...modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence makes the common law right to resist unnecessary because civil remedies are available through the courts..."

In other words, the common law the judge, Steven David, is ready to negate the people is that of self defense should a police officer decide to enter a home uninvited.
Moreover, David also wrote that
"...Allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest..."

which means that in his infinite wisdom, Steven David considers the God-given right of an individual to protect oneself and one's family and property not a right at all, but an hindrance to the goal of the State.
The decision sparked widespread outrage not limited to Indiana but Nation wide. Indiana State Senators are already drafting legislation that will overturn this horrible miscarriage of justice.
(On a side note: Judge Steven David was nominated to the Indiana State Supreme Court by Gov. Mitch Daniels. If this represents the ease with which Daniels can be bamboozled, or if this is in line with Daniels' agenda, than Mitch Daniels better stay the hell away from Presidential Campaigning. We already have a President that tramples the Constitution on a daily basis, we do not need another one!)

Following the Court decision, Newton County, Indiana, Sheriff Don Hartman Sr. declared that the ruling would now allow law enforcement to conduct house to house random searches, which he said he would conduct, and that the people would actually welcome them if it meant catching criminals.
It looks like Sheriff Hartman, just like his colleague Dupnik in Pima County, Arizona, do not feel that the adherence to the U.S. Constitution is a necessity. They must be of the opinion, spreading around elected officials nationwide, that the portion of the Oath of Office "...protect and defend the United States Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic..." was just place in the oath for the sole purpose of wasting time.

As I continue to follow the tragic event in Tucson of the death of Jose Guerena, I keep on finding other examples of what appears to be a move of some of our law enforcement units toward what can only be considered as a police state behavior.
And there was a strange case in Tacoma, Washington, where a 13 years old boy was yanked from his class during school and interrogated for 30 minutes by the Secret Service. The reason was that the child, Vito LaPinta, had posted something on Facebook that the Secret Service considered as threatening to the President. In the aftermath of the killing of bin Laden, Vito wrote that the President should be careful about possible terrorists out for revenge.
Yes, that was the threat against the President from a 13-year-old boy!

We have Hamas, Hezbollah and CAIR in America; the Saudi Medrassas in Virginia; university professors supporting terrorists; anti-American illegal aliens associations plotting the overturn of our republic; we have former Presidents and former Congresspeople visiting enemy nations and attacking America; we have government entities leaking secret information that could cost American lives. And the Secret Service is grilling a 7th grader? And without his parents present?

All the rights that are being granted to the enemies of America, from the terrorists in Guantanamo that Eric Holder wants to try in civil courts, to the favoritism afforded to illegal alien students over American citizens, are demanded by those who are most interested in transforming the Country into a Marxist entity.
Decisions like the one in Indiana are nothing less than an affront to the Constitution and to the law abiding citizens of this country. They are just individual steps in the grand scheme of rendering the Constitution, and all the rights it gives us, null and void. Starting with giving law enforcement absolute power, especially if exercised against those of us who dissent, is just another attempt at controlling and coerce the population into submission. What would stop a law enforcement agency to "visit" the home of someone who has legally registered weapons and confiscate them? That would work just perfect for the progressives who see the common American as the only obstacle to their total overtaking of the Nation.

This may be the lighting of the fuse that will allow the American people to finally stand up and say: NO MORE! As for me, I sure hope nobody ever decides to come into my home uninvited. I will not take the time to ask if there may be civil remedies available through the courts!

Just my thoughts!