The Lying Police of the Police State

It is always good to remember that in the warped world of policing, lying to witnesses is considered a core competency of the job, and lying to the public is seen as an essential element of their shield of infallibility and impunity.

The Founders of this great nation understood the capricious violence of the police state.  This was not a theory or a rumor.  It was a very real element in their world, and they knew it would always be lurking in ours.

And so they decided that the right of the people to assemble and protest would not be restricted (First Amendment), and that the only way that  right could be guaranteed in a creeping police state, was to make sure the right of the people to own guns for self-defense could not be abridged (Second Amendment).

This is an important point.  In a creeping militarized police state, if only the police have guns, and the courts themselves are part of the problem, then the only safe-check left is People Power, secured by force if necessary.

Let's hope it doesn't come to that, but push has come to shove in almost every other country of the world at some point, and it's a bit naïve to think it could never happen here (since it already has).