You Let Your Son Become Separated From You for a Couple of Hours, So Now We'll Forcefully Separate You From Him for Five Years

Rutherford Institute Defends Florida Mom Arrested, Handcuffed, Searched & Jailed for Allowing Her 7-Year-Old Son to Visit Playground Alone

(Another good article from CNN)

See the trickery the cops pulled (yellow highlight)? Their goal was to get an arrest at all costs, not to be reasonable.

"Upon arriving at Gainey’s home, officers questioned the single mother about her son’s whereabouts, without informing her that they had picked him up. The police then arrested Gainey, charged her with neglect, and took her to the local jail, where she was physically searched, fingerprinted, photographed and held for seven hours and then forced to pay almost $4000 in bond in order to return to her family."

“What this incident and others like it taking place across the country make clear is that the theater of the absurd that passes for life in the American police state grows more tragic and incomprehensible by the day,” said John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State. “While we all want to ensure that our young people are safe and protected, the government cannot usurp a parent’s right to determine what is appropriate for their children. Unless we put a stop to this ‘government-knows-best’ nanny state mindset now, we may soon find that we have no rights whatsoever in a society that is increasingly bureaucratic, legalistic, politically correct, self-righteous and unconcerned about individual rights.”

Here's What Can Happen If You Innocently Make a Paperwork Mistake - America The Police State

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George Norris, a 65 year-old orchid enthusiast gets swat-teamed and thrown in jail for not having the correct paperwork. He sold an orchid to an undercover government agent that did not have the correct paperwork. The "penalty" was 10 years. He plea-bargained to less than 2 years just to get it over with.

Mr and Mrs Norris have had their life savings wiped out trying to defend themselves from this blatant crime perpetrated against them by the people who call themselves "government".

Justice is harsher in America than in any other rich country. Between 2.3m and 2.4m Americans are behind bars, roughly one in every 100 adults. If those on parole or probation are included, one adult in 31 is under “correctional” supervision. As a proportion of its total population, America incarcerates five times more people than Britain, nine times more than Germany and 12 times more than Japan. Overcrowding is the norm. Federal prisons house 60% more inmates than they were designed for. State lock-ups are only slightly less stuffed.

The system has three big flaws, say criminologists. First, it puts too many people away for too long. Second, it criminalises acts that need not be criminalised. Third, it is unpredictable. Many laws, especially federal ones, are so vaguely written that people cannot easily tell whether they have broken them.

In 1970 the proportion of Americans behind bars was below one in 400, compared with today’s one in 100.

“The Norrises’ nightmare didn’t end until George was released from federal supervision in December 2008. Kathy testified, however, that even after he came home, the man she married was gone. George was then 71. Serving two years as a federal convict – then years more defending unsuccessfully against the charges – took a severe toll on him mentally, emotionally and physically.”

“You don’t need to know. You can’t know.” That’s what Kathy Norris, a 60-year-old grandmother of eight, was told when she tried to ask court officials why, the day before, federal agents had subjected her home to a furious search.

The agents who spent half a day ransacking Mrs. Norris’ longtime home in Spring, Texas, answered no questions while they emptied file cabinets, pulled books off shelves, rifled through drawers and closets, and threw the contents on the floor.

The six agents, wearing SWAT gear and carrying weapons, were with - get this- the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Kathy and George Norris lived under the specter of a covert government investigation for almost six months before the government unsealed a secret indictment and revealed why the Fish and Wildlife Service had treated their family home as if it were a training base for suspected terrorists. Orchids.

That’s right. Orchids.

Mr. Norris ended up spending almost two years in prison because he didn’t have the proper paperwork for some of the many orchids he imported. The orchids were all legal - but Mr. Norris and the overseas shippers who had packaged the flowers had failed to properly navigate the many, often irrational, paperwork requirements the U.S. imposed when it implemented an arcane international treaty’s new restrictions on trade in flowers and other flora.

Google Krister Evertson for another outrageous example of government tyranny.

Injustice Everywhere - an Aptly Named Website

http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/

"We're Going to Teach You a Lesson" Another Cop Lies to Chalk Up an Arrest

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"You don’t fuck with cops," Oborski snarled at Buehler. "You don’t get in our fucking way. You don’t question us, and we’re going to teach you a lesson."

- Austin TX government strongman Patrick Oborski to Antonio Buehler who was photographing him from a significant distance while he brutally assaulted a young woman. Oborski then proceeded to assault Mr Buehler.

More witnesses against the government strongman. "My field of vision was as direct as I am to you now," said Amador. "I would testify in a court of law at any level that at no point did Antonio spit at the officer or make any sort of aggressive or inciting gesture towards him."

So the government strongman is "going to teach him a lesson"? Is that how they "protect and serve"?

By the way, have you noticed how government strongmen "help" people up from the ground from whence they were thrown and stomped on? They could choose to grab them near their shoulders but they never do. They grab them by their wrists and yank them up knowing that this is a painful and potentially injuring maneuver.

Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse, Unless You're a Cop or Prosecutor

You know the line, "ignorance of the law is no excuse", you can go to jail for simply breaking some arcane and arbitrary a rule called a "law" where you harmed no-one, but if you plead you never knew it was "against the law" you go to jail anyway.

But if a cop arrests someone mistakenly, because he didn't know the law, and jails someone and levels serious charges over his head for months, the cop doesn't even get a slap on the wrist.

The first 3 1/2 minutes of this video demonstrates.

"Citizens are supposed to know the law front to back, but the people actually charged with enforcing it aren't expected to know the law."

More Peaceful People Thrown in Cages In New York Because of Zealously Enforced Anti-Self Defense Laws

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The Justice System Is Not Interested In Justice

Anatomy of a coerced confession.

The incentives police work under are for making as many arrests as possible. Prosecutors want to appear tough on crime, so putting people in jail serves their interest far better than doing the hard thing: seeking real justice.

It's Official - The Architecture of Tyranny Is Now In Place (NDAA)

If you are merely "suspected" of supporting terrorism (the defining language is extremely vague), you can be sent to Guantanamo indefinitely, without possibility of hiring a lawyer, and absolutely no 5th amendment due process.

Sure, the government can use its discretion and not act on this, but why would they pass it if there was never any intention to use it in the future. Watch the Rand Paul video below where he explains that current laws fully take care of anything that the NDAA is concerned about.

Of course, this provision is tacked on to a military funding bill, so to vote against evisceration of the constitution is voting against funding the military. I wonder how much support this provision would have if it was the only thing in a bill?

The government can now make a "mistake" in arresting an American whose views the government disagrees with and who has no connections with any terrorist organization and throw them in a cage in Cuba without any hope of getting a lawyer to help clear up the "misunderstanding".

The National Defense Authorization Act now gives the government the "right" to grab anyone on the street on mere suspicion "And when they say, 'I want my lawyer,' you tell them, 'Shut up. You don't get a lawyer.'"

Now that the government has the ability to grab a "suspected" American, what's to stop them from grabbing someone they know is not involved in supporting terrorism? And once they grab someone, they have absolutely no recourse. They cannot get a lawyer, there is absolutely no due process at all.

In the Ron Paul video below, Ron Paul said that the Obama administration wanted the power to jail a person for life even after being found innocent in a trial. Rand Paul was able to get that stopped.

Obama specifically asked to remove the provision in the Act that stated that American citizens would be exempt from the "prolonged detention" clause, and it was removed.

Ron Paul talks about the NDAA starting at 9:30:

Why You Should Never Talk to the Police

Here's an example of a lady who made the absolutely HUGE mistake of speaking to a government intimidation agent (cop).

A MUST-WATCH (yes, I'm shouting):

Part 2 is also good. You'll hear a government intimidation agent openly admit that they can legally lie and trick people into incriminating themselves:

It's Not About the Spirit of the Law, It's About Busting People

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Meredith Graves, a law-abiding citizen from Tennessee who has a concealed carry permit asked to check her gun in at the New York 911 memorial. Instead of checking the gun or directing her to go store it elsewhere, government intimidation agents (police) promptly arrested her. New York prosecutors are very aggressively trying to throw her in a cage for a minimum of 3 1/2 years.

If she hires a very good lawyer, which will probably cost in the mid 5 figures, she may get probation. I don't know how that would work in New York...

This is yet another example of government looking to hurt people, not help people. It's pretty much gotten to be where they enjoy hurting people.

The government gets seriously offended when anyone disobeys their commands (laws) and lashes out in anger to punish people as severely as possible.

Did this woman harm anyone? Weren't her actions consistent with someone who is trying to obey government rules? Obviously, yes, but the government doesn't care at all.

The only time a prosecutor may back down and drop such evil charges is when there is a very large outpouring of protest.

It is quite clear that these people who laughably claim to "serve and protect" are some of the most cold-hearted and evil people in the world.

Lacey Act is Pure Evil - Making Criminals of Innocent People

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8 years prison sentences for importing lobster packaged in plastic instead of cardboard supposedly in violation of a Honduran law, which the Honduran government officially denied in a court briefing but the court convicted anyway.

The Lacey Act makes it a crime to import “fish or wildlife taken … in violation of any foreign law.”

The U.S. government prosecutes and convicts on its own interpretation of foreign laws.

"With no explanation, the federal government held the entire ship for several weeks and then off-loaded and transported McNab’s 70,000 pounds of Caribbean spiny lobster to a government freezer in Florida. There the lobster tails languished for six months while NMFS agents searched Honduran regulations for some reason to keep the lobster meat and prosecute the importers and distributors."

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Man Helping Veterans Becomes Federal Criminal

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"The federal government accused Lewis of violating the Clean Water Act because when he attempted to divert sewage from flooding the military retirement home where he served as the chief engineer, he unknowingly diverted the sewage into a creek that carried water to the Potomac River. He thought—as did all of the other staffers at the retirement home—that the storm drain was connected to a city sewage-treatment system."

"Lewis, of course, thought he was using reasonable care by seeking to prevent the flooding of the nursing home—but the government does not take this mistake into consideration."

"...he [now] has a criminal record that he cannot avoid disclosing when applying for jobs."

I don't know what else to say other than this is just nothing but pure evil.