From Press Room Raids To Indictments, Anything Goes When The Government Piles On

 "When players are piled on top of each other after a mad scramble for a loose ball, it's a free-for-all. There are no rules. Anything goes. That's because there's nobody in the pile to monitor what's going on."-Mike Thomas, sports editor.

In this particular analogy, "We the people" are trapped at the bottom of that pile, buried under a mountain of bread-and-circus distractions, economic worries, environmental disasters, power plays, power grabs, police raids, indictments and circus politics.

The indictments against Trump, the investigation of Hunter Biden, and the chatter of the political classes aren't real; they are more sound and fury, signifying nothing in the end.

What's real is what happened in Marion, Kansas, on Fri., Aug. 11, 2023, when police raided the office of the Marion County Record, blowing past the constitutional safeguards intended to safeguard the freedom of the press.

The manufactured media spectacles, piled on one after another, have a very real purpose, which is to distract us from the government's constant encroachments on our freedoms.

In the larger scheme of things, these individual incidents-the police raid of a small-town newspaper, a state ban on who gets to be inside your car, an outrageous fine for feeding the destitute, a politician's use of an enemies list to silence critics-might easily go unremarked, yet they are all part of the police state's tendency to pile on: pile on the distractions, pile on the retribution, pile on the show of force in order to completely eviscerate anything that even remotely resembles opposition.

You cannot have a republican form of government-nor a democratic one, for that matter-when the government views itself as superior to the citizenry, when it no longer operates for the benefit of the people, when the people are no longer able to peacefully reform their government, when government officials cease to act like public servants, when elected officials no longer represent the will of the people, when the government routinely violates the rights of the people and perpetrates more violence against the citizenry than the criminal class, when government spending is unaccountable and unaccounted for, when the judiciary act as courts of order rather than justice, and when the government is no longer bound by the laws of the Constitution.

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