Only a matter of time before we're all locked up

It seems to me that everyday more and more of our rights are being taken away; by politicans, law makers, law enforcement, etc. You can be arrested for anything these days. you can be arrested for protesting, be arrested for video taping a protest, heck you can be arrested for video taping someone being arrested! They don't want everyone to see what is happening.
Its getting worse and worse. isn't it only a matter of time before all our rights disappear?

 

Hasn't it always been this way? It seems to me that it's just been a matter of the ebb and flow of the law system--at times and in places, laws are more strict and heavily enforced. At times and in places, they are less so. We are definitely in a time when there are far too many restrictions, but, as always happens, the people will rise, I believe, and make a little bit of progress before the system recovers and rescinds the changes.

 

Just wait till the next holocaust. 70-90% world population decrease.....and slavery to the few that are left. Enjoy this illusion of freedom in our Babylon.

 

that's sort of what i'm guessing will happen. I hate to be one of those paranoid tinfoil hat types, but there's a very good chance of this happening.

 

swine flu..

 

And that's only the beginning

With face recognition technology no one will be able to go anywhere without being immediately identified by a sophisticated integrated surveillance / computer network and challenged as to your destination and purpose for being out in the street

Hotwater

 

swine flu? Swine flu vaccine.....

 

On the plus side, California is going to legalize marijuana in the next couple of years.

Double PLUS good, I say!

 

take your pick.. the game is rigged,you still lose..

 

Game over, insert coin.

 

Prosthetics ftw.

 

Not legally, you can't.

If this is happening, then the issue is with the cops doing the arresting, not with your rights "being taken away."

Attitudes about this sort of thing trickle down from the top. If our national leaders play fast and loose with civil liberties, then so will the rank and file cops. We just got rid of the worst offender in the last national election, so hopefully the situation will improve.

 

that's true... Bush is gone, and while I Obama isn't perfect either I think the country will be doing a lot better hopefully in terms of people's rights.

 

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I agree whole heartily. There is a strong system of checks and balances in place to prevent the wrongful arrests of citizens. If anything, our prisons are becoming too full at the moment. The last thing we need is to be forced to build more facilities to detain the harmless citizens.

 

Awful lot of sheeple around....

 

There's corporations that are very eager to build more prisons, since it is a very lucrative system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt6gPZO8XRw

 

You can, actually, be arrested for absolutely anything. It's part of being a cop to know how to bring in anyone for some bullshit thing that they'll end up paying a little fine for. The point is keeping the peace (which means cutting off any head that sticks up). Most people don't want more than one run-in with the cops.

For example, it is legal for a woman to go around topless in Texas. However, if a cop tells that woman to put a shirt on, she must comply. It is entirely at the cop's discretion to determine whether or not her behavior (not her mode of dress) was publicly lewd.

There's a reason they go around with this drunk-on-power-piggy little attitude, and it's not just the gun and the vest. The street cop really does wield pretty incredible power over the people in his town, and he's expected to use it, and no one over him really minds if he uses it capriciously.

 

And this can be seen in the war on drugs, too. The drug laws in the US are not constituted so as to make drug use illegal. With the exception of marijuana, which provides a high that no other plant quite approximates, there is another way to get almost any sort of high you might want.

Heroin is illegal. But poppies are legal. Poppies that you've cut to get the opium from are illegal. But dried poppies are legal. In fact, if you ate enough of the poppy seeds that come on buns and in muffins, you'd get high. And they sell that stuff everywhere.

Acid is illegal. Psilocybe mushrooms are illegal. But Amanita is legal. Hawaiian Baby Woodrose is legal. Everything in ayahuasca is legal. It's just not legal to prepare or consume it. But if you want to trip, there are all kinds of legal ways that are just as safe as acid or shroom.

Meth is illegal...but there are lots of ways to get off on some legal speed. I'm not going into that, but you get my point.

The point of the war on drugs is not to stop people from getting high. There are plenty of ways to get high and the government knows about it all and has specifically left loopholes for law-abiding citizens to exploit if they choose. One of the reasons for the war on drugs is to create a good excuse for picking up anyone a cop might want off the streets (which, at the time these laws were passed, meant black people and then hippie protesters). (and then there's the whole socio-economic strategy and such...)

 

This is why i saw fuck tha police, fuck the government.