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Rule by Fiat: When the Government Does Whatever It Wants

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This is what happens when you use SWAT teams to carry out routine search warrants.

This is what happens when you adopt red flag gun law s, which Maryland did in 2018, painting anyone who might be in possession of a gunlegal or otherwiseas a threat that must be neutralized.

Therein lies the danger of these red flag laws, specifically, and pre-crime laws such as these generally where the burden of proof is reversed and you are guilty before you are given any chance to prove you are innocent.

Red flag gun laws merely push us that much closer towards a suspect society where everyone is potentially guilty of some crime or another and must be preemptively rendered harmless.

Where many Americans go wrong is in naively assuming that you have to be doing something illegal or harmful in order to be flagged and targeted for some form of intervention or detention.

All you need to do is end up on a government watch list.

Be warned: once you get on such a government watch listwhether it's a terrorist watch list, a mental health watch list, a dissident watch list, or a red flag gun watch listthere's no clear-cut way to get off, whether or not you should actually be on there.

You will be tracked wherever you go.

You will be flagged as a potential threat and dealt with accordingly.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this is pre-crime on an ideological scale and it's been a long time coming.

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