{"id":47418,"date":"2019-07-26T07:08:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T12:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47418"},"modified":"2019-07-26T07:08:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T12:08:20","slug":"monsters-with-human-faces-the-tyranny-of-the-police-state-disguised-as-law-and-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47418","title":{"rendered":"Monsters with Human Faces: The Tyranny of the Police State Disguised as Law-and-Order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/monsters_with_human_faces_the_tyranny_of_the_police_state_disguised_as_law_and_order\">Monsters with Human Faces: The Tyranny of the Police State Disguised as Law-and-Order<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cBut these weren\u2019t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around\u2014they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don\u2019t recognize them for what they are until it\u2019s too late.\u201d \u2015 Ransom Riggs,&nbsp;<em>Miss Peregrine\u2019s Home for Peculiar Children&nbsp;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enough already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enough with the distractions. Enough with the partisan jousting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enough with the sniping and name-calling and mud-slinging that do nothing to make this country safer or freer or more just.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have let the government\u2019s evil-doing, its abuses, power grabs, brutality, meanness, inhumanity, immorality, greed, corruption, debauchery and tyranny go on for too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are approaching a reckoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the point, as the poet W. B. Yeats warned, when things fall apart and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/second-coming\">anarchy is loosed upon the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have seen this convergence before in Hitler\u2019s Germany, in Stalin\u2019s Russia, in Mussolini\u2019s Italy, and in Mao\u2019s China: the rise of strongmen and demagogues, the ascendency of profit-driven politics over deep-seated principles, the warring nationalism that seeks to divide and conquer, the callous disregard for basic human rights and dignity, and the silence of people who should know better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet no matter how many times the world has been down this road before, we can\u2019t seem to avoid repeating the deadly mistakes of the past. This is not just playing out on a national and international scale. It is wreaking havoc at the most immediate level, as well, creating rifts and polarities within families and friends, neighborhoods and communities that keep the populace warring among themselves and incapable of presenting a united front in the face of the government\u2019s goose-stepping despotism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are definitely in desperate need of a populace that can stand united against the government\u2019s authoritarian tendencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monsters with Human Faces: The Tyranny of the Police State Disguised as Law-and-Order \u201cBut these weren\u2019t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around\u2014they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don\u2019t recognize them [&hellip;]<\/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":[379,6420,643,6300,1492,827],"class_list":["post-47418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-government","tag-john-whitehead","tag-power","tag-the-rutherford-institute","tag-tyranny","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47418","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=47418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47419,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47418\/revisions\/47419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}