"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." - Edward R. Murrow

Definition of TRAITOR:

One who betrays another's trust or is false to an obligation or duty as in politicians who violate their Constitutional oath and betray the people.

A Nation Betrayed…is bankrupting the nation an act of Treason?

With Bi-Partisan Support, America is turning into a Corporate- Police State

Who will represent the people?

In just the last few years, the Corporate Police State has reared its head at every level of government, driven by former government politicians and bureaucrats who now work for Wall Street firms who, like drug dealers,  push surveillance technology in their never ending search for their next profit fix…all at the expense of civil liberties.

Their mantra is “The public be damned, we own Congress and we certainly don’t need input from the public…”

Corporate Police State," it's a fraught -- some might even say, overwrought -- term. But in its purest, apolitical form, it simply describes the periodic commingling of state and corporate power to protect private interests.

The police powers of government on a local and national level have been growing at an alarming rate. And despite a dissonant data base there is a growing trend towards militarization of police forces and of an invasive state security apparatus.

The concept of militarization of police forces in this country began with the Special Weapons & Tactics (SWAT) teams in Los Angeles in 1967 -68. Its formation was a response to events including the Watts riots of 1965 and to our never ending war on drugs (and our civil rights).

Along the way a massive security infrastructure and bureaucracy was created. The Patriot Act authorized the broad use of enhanced surveillance techniques and intelligence gathering while including domestic terrorism under the scope of the intelligence services. To date the only truly domestic terror prosecution seems to have been a few retired white supremacists in Georgia. The Ft. Hood massacre was officially classified by the White House recently as a workplace related shooting.

The Wall Street Journal in an

article entitled "Federal Offenses: law enforcement teams grow at government agencies" wrote of the proliferation of heretofore nonexistent police forces in federal agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Commerce, Labor Department, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Agency, and many others who have the power to conduct investigations, seek indictments, or simply raid violators of even regulatory violations. Cases where armed agents have raided homes and workplaces have included the infamous Gibson Guitar raid for illegal wood; documentation errors on otherwise legal imports, and even the recent batch of a 881 lb. Bluefin Tuna by a New Bedford trawler. "Put the tuna on the ground and raise your hands".

The Internal Revenue Service has been strong arming countries around the world to open their bank records not to trace narcotics cash or Russian mobsters, but income tax evaders. The "Stop On Line Piracy Act" (SOPA) and the recent NDAA Act, which is now law, have broadened the policing authority of the Federal government to a never before greater degree at a time when ordinary crime is decreasing. The SOPA Act, in the words of one IT manager, would make our internet similar to China's. The NDAA allows for the President to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects, including American citizens. The law then becomes a matter of semantics to the unprincipled.

In the meantime, corruption and cronyism have risen to a level not seen since the 1870's.  The civil service of America has become very uncivil towards its citizens.

The assault on civil liberties and on due process starting with many of the measures of the Bush Administration. This accelerated under President Obama, who has concentrated power in the White House to an extraordinary degree. By avoiding Congressional approval and his own Executive Branch through the appointment of "czars" ranging from the auto industry to regulation to ethics to climate to consumer affairs, the president has subverted the separation of powers repeatedly in an imperial presidency that is unparalleled.

Crime rates have been dropping for 20 years and yet today there is more danger to civil liberties posed by government than ever before. Our government continues to expand the definition of crime while approving special powers usually found in police states.

As the terrorism threat used to rationalize many of these powers has receded, government power has never been greater or more at odds with the Constitution.

Our government has built an anti-Constitutional framework that can and will eventually be turned against our citizens. On one side we have our civil/criminal system, and the other the growing power of Orwellian dysfunction.

The people of this country are no longer represented by elected leaders or unelected bureaucrats whose draconian unlegislated regulatory powers are killing the spirit of America and threaten not only our economic viability but our national security.  They are the ones to be feared, they are the ones who have betrayed America.

NOTE: 

Bankrupting our nation should be sufficient cause for the Attorney General’s of each state to band together to remove these traitors from office and/or post.

Notice to all public ‘servants’

http://www.angelfire.com/az/sthurston/notice.html

Sources:  Condensed from The American Thinker, PoorManSurvival.com and others.