The United States is a police state. This cannot be argued by any informed or sane person. I would agree that this situation could worsen substantially from here, but the fact remains that a police state environment is present, and now after the state tyranny in Boston, the threat is active.
What happened in Boston and the surrounding area was full blown Martial Law. It was a military takeover of cities and towns housing over a million people. It was fully militarized because the local and state police have become fully militarized, and have heavily armored military gear. They, local and state agents of force, were for the most part fully controlled by federal agencies, the U.S. military, and all these state thugs had weapons of mass destruction at their disposal for domestic use.
Forced house to house searches, and at gunpoint, were the rule of the day, and without any benefit of warrant. Innocent citizens were traumatized by police and military troops, threatened and forced from their homes by heavily armed goons in government costumes. They were told to show their papers, and were in many cases searched. This has been happening for some time on a smaller scale, but the precedent set this time is horrifying!
Many are arguing that these searches were illegal due to Fourth Amendment protections, but I disagree. While most of the language in that amendment is clear, like most of the rest of the U.S. Constitution, there is an exception that is broad and sweeping. The Fourth Amendment reads:
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 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.
While subtle, the troubling phrase in this amendment is “unreasonable searches and seizures.” This is very ambiguous language. Add to this the fourth main “legal” circumstance in which a warrant is not required, and a major problem exists. The first three incidents where no warrant is required are Consent, Plain View, and Search Incident To Arrest. It is the fourth that is particularly troubling.
4. “Exigent Circumstances. This exception refers to emergency situations where the process of getting a valid search warrant could compromise public safety or could lead to a loss of evidence.”
Broad language in the Fourth Amendment mentioned above has allowed for this “legal” interpretation of searches and seizures in the corrupt courts to be the law of the land. Because of this, the state has a completely open-ended and subjective “legal” power to search and seize without obtaining a warrant. The terms “unreasonable searches and seizures” and “public safety” destroy any protection that would have been afforded the lowly citizen as to searches, seizures or privacy.
Get ready for Martial Law on a much wider scale. It is coming, and it will get more and more invasive and dangerous during and after every natural disaster, every terrorist threat, every shooting, and every so-called terrorist attack. Because of the complacency of the frightened and apathetic masses, the stage has been set for Martial Law in a totalitarian state. And given that any citizen under circumstances of Martial Law can be killed with impunity, all of us are at risk of being shot at any time during a state “lock-down” simply due to not complying with orders from the cretinous gendarmes.