The government has knocked us off our rightful throne. It has usurped our rightful authority. It has staged the ultimate coup. Its agents no longer even pretend that they answer to "we the people."
We are fast approaching a moment of reckoning where we will be forced to choose between the vision of what America was intended to be (a model for self-governance where power is vested in the people) and the reality of what she has become (a police state where power is vested in the government).
These mass arrests of anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant may well be the shot across the bow.
You see, it's a short hop, skip and a jump from allowing government agents to lock large swaths of the population up in detention centers unless or until they can prove that they are not only legally in the country to empowering government agents to subject anyone-citizen and noncitizen alike-to similar treatment unless or until they can prove that they are in compliance with every statute and regulation on the books, and not guilty of having committed some crime or other.
It's no longer a matter of if , but when .
You may be innocent of wrongdoing now, but when the standard for innocence is set by the government, no one is safe. Everyone is a suspect, and anyone can be a criminal when it's the government determining what is a crime.
Remember, the police state does not discriminate.
Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out now-whether it's in the name of national security or protecting America's borders or making America great again-rest assured, these same practices can and will be used against you when the government decides to set its sights on you.
Finally, if anyone suggests that the government's mass immigration roundups and arrests are just the government doing its job to fight illegal immigration, don't buy it.
This is not about illegal immigration. It's about power and control.
It's about testing the waters to see how far the American people will allow the government to go in re-shaping the country in the image of a totalitarian police state.
It's about the rise of an "emergency state" that justifies all manner of government misconduct and power grabs in the so-called name of national security.
It's about how far we will allow the government to go in its efforts to distract and divide us and turn us into a fearful, easily controlled populace.
Ultimately, it's about whether we believe-as the Founders did-that our freedoms are inherently ours and that the government's appointed purpose is not to threaten or undermine our freedoms, but to safeguard them.
We must get back to this way of thinking if we are to ever stand our ground in the face of threats to those freedoms.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, it's time to draw that line in the sand.
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