{"id":35755,"date":"2018-07-06T07:48:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T12:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35755"},"modified":"2018-07-06T07:48:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T12:48:25","slug":"police-state-in-slo-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35755","title":{"rendered":"Police State in Slo-Mo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police State in Slo-Mo<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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For many years, I\u2019ve forecasted that the US will evolve into a police state; that it will begin slowly; then as more and more freedoms are removed, the creation of the police state will accelerate.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re now seeing that acceleration, as more and more Americans are detained, questioned, and having their property confiscated than ever before.<\/p>\n

As an example, in 2016, some 20,000 travellers in and out of the US were stopped, often at random. Typically, their baggage was searched, their documents photocopied, access codes to their electronic devices demanded and their files copied. In most cases, no explanation was given, but they were advised that if the search was refused, they would be detained indefinitely.<\/p>\n

The following year, in 2017, the numbers of people detained rose by 50%<\/em>, to 30,000.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to note that the travellers were not threatened with arrest, which suggests that the authorities were working on the basis that the Patriot Act of 2001 allows all of the above activities\u2014without cause being given, without a warrant being obtained, without access to a phone call or legal representation being allowed, and that the individuals in question may be detained, indefinitely.<\/em><\/p>\n

This, of course, is in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which states that people have the right \u201cto be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, when people travel, they are particularly vulnerable, so the travellers in question are extremely unlikely to refuse. They understand that, \u201cindefinitely\u201d means, \u201cuntil a Supreme Court ruling is passed, overturning the Patriot Act as unconstitutional.\u201d If it hasn\u2019t happened yet and isn\u2019t under consideration, it\u2019s safe to say that the level of police state allowed under the Patriot Act is permanent.<\/p>\n

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Police State in Slo-Mo For many years, I\u2019ve forecasted that the US will evolve into a police state; that it will begin slowly; then as more and more freedoms are removed, the creation of the police state will accelerate. We\u2019re now seeing that acceleration, as more and more Americans are detained, questioned, and having their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6228,11658,632,635,827],"class_list":["post-35755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-international-man","tag-jeff-thomas","tag-police","tag-police-state","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35756,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35755\/revisions\/35756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}