Police State? Remember "The Running Man"?

It is interesting to me with all of these reality shows. The ones that impress me most are shows like "Cops" and "America's Most Wanted" where we get brownie points for helping the police catch these dangerous criminals. It's nice as a citizen to participate in our patriotic duty right?

Except?

Except that there are many problems with this. The most obvious of course is how many of these people are actually criminals? I do not have any doubt that most, or even more likely all of them are right now. But later on? As our rights become less and less apparent and less and less important? What about then?

Police have no civic duty to protect citizens any more. In fact they are encouraged against it by the law! Huh? How is that? Well, you see in a little advertised technicality, we do not have peace officers anymore like we used to. We now have law enforcement agents who are allowed to interpret the law at the "scene" and then must enforce and protect the Law without regard for the humanity involved.

I know there are still good cops out there but ask any of them if their job is the same now as it was twenty or even ten years ago. Things are always changing and many good people are caught up in the struggle, not just We The People.

Like so many powers which are given to the federal government in the name of safety or social welfare programs. Do you really think the government will relinquish that power willingly? Unfortunately, like taxes, government never met a power it did not like either.

When traffic cameras came out for anyone who cares to look it up or who remembers, they were only going to be used for monitoring traffic remember? They were never going to be used in any way to convict anyone or even as evidentiary materials but only to monitor traffic.

Like so many more things, Social Security, Anti this and that campaigns, our rights are eroded a little bit at a time until suddenly we wake up one day wondering where the few remaining rights went. Redistribution of wealth has been happening so long that We The People actively encourage big government to participate in it. The rights of private property owners used to be subject to scrutiny only in the public interest.

Remember that once again, it all crept up slowly until it was too late for We The People. Now private property can be taken from one private citizen and freely (and illegally) redistributed to another private citizen without regard for the private property owner.

What is the logical conclusion to all of these shows? Remember the movie "Running Man" with Arnold and of all people ... Richard Dawson as an entirely believable bad guy? How many people are going to worry about "a common criminal" that they have never met and do not know? After all, if the government or especially television tells us that this is a dangerous criminal it has to be true right? Everything we see on tv and everything that the government tells us is true right?

'Remember Cadre Members, double points for turning in a family member today!"
Is it really so difficult to see that coming? What stage will it be at before you wake up America?

Ward