America The New Police State

By Semperpapa

Never in a million years I would have ever believed that our beloved Nation would become a police state, but it looks like it is happening.
I have written about the killing of Marine Jose Guerena in Tucson, and I have written about the Indiana Supreme Court deciding that law enforcement has the right to enter any private home at their discretion, even in absence of a legal search warrant, but the news from Stockton, California, is just the latest in an increasing demonstration that the rule of law may be being abused by the very officers tasked to protect the citizens.

In the California city of Stockton, Kenneth Wright was awaken by about 15 officers who stormed his home early morning this week, detaining him for about six hours and terrorizing his three young children, ages 3, 7 and 11.
Initially the report was that the officers were part of the local police SWAT, but it was later clarified that they actually were part of a group called OIG, which stands for Office of the Inspector General, a federal agency connected with the Department of Education.
A spokesman for the DoE confirmed that the officers from that agency served the warrant, but refused to give details on the reason for the raid. And as it has become customary for the federal government under the Obama regime, transparency, truthfulness and honesty are long forgotten, or never used, virtues.
Mr. Wright, who has no criminal record, was subjected to the action allegedly because his wife, who does not live in the household any longer, skimped on payments for some student loans. The DoE spokesman, though, stated that that was not the reason for the search, but again refusing to give the real reason.

The $64,000 question, then, is this: why is the Department of Education involved in law enforcement activities via para-military units?
I find it extremely disturbing that a federal governmental department, which is an abject failure at whatever it is that they have been doing, has gained so much power and ability to operate above the Constitution, that they are now in charge of raiding the private residences of the American people. And to make things worst, they are allowed to keep secret their motivations upon public scrutiny.

Is that why the DoE has acquired weapons? Is because tactics like this that the IRS has requested a budget for the purchase of shotguns?
The federal government is demonstrating to be increasingly intrusive into the private existence of the citizenry. With the takeover of so much of the private sector, like in the case of Stockton the federal agents incursion would be justified by the government takeover of the student loans industry, this may be only the beginning of a police state in America, a state where governmental law enforcement units would have free reign over the infringement of the rights afforded to the people by the Fourth Amendment.
Next we may very well see federal agents from the HHS raiding our homes if we are not connected enough to gain a waiver against Obamacare, or from the FCC raiding radio and TV stations for dissenting with the government ideology.
All indications are that the direction taken is one similar to the SA in Nazi Germany or Hugo Chavez's Venezuela.

Our freedoms are under attack from the very individuals we entrusted to protect them. President Reagan stated that liberty is one generation away from extinction and the generation most culpable for placing freedom on the endangered list is the one currently running the show in Washington D.C.
There is only one chance left for the American people and that is to cleanse the White House in 2012 and return the Nation to its Constitutional path of justice and freedom. If we falter in the next Presidential Elections, the only country on this planet that still remains a beacon of freedom will no longer exist.

Just my thoughts!