{"id":323946,"date":"2017-08-31T05:27:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T04:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-us-deliberately-created-a-police-state\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T05:27:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T04:27:30","slug":"the-us-deliberately-created-a-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-us-deliberately-created-a-police-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Deliberately Created a Police State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Doug Casey, Jeff Thomas, and Nick Giambruno recently discussed a critical topic\u2014the rise of a police state in the former \u201cfree\u201d world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick Giambruno:<\/strong>\u00a0In my experience, the US has some of the most aggressive police in the world. I first noticed this when I started traveling many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also noticed that law-abiding citizens are more likely to encounter the police in the US. Both of these trends are accelerating.<\/p>\n<p>What happened to \u201cthe boys in blue\u201d\u2014the friendly cop on the beat that everyone knew personally and trusted?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doug Casey:\u00a0<\/strong>The fact is that police forces throughout the US have been militarized. Every little town has a SWAT team, sometimes with armored personnel carriers. All of the Praetorian style agencies on the federal level\u2014the FBI, CIA, NSA, and over a dozen others like them\u2014have become very aggressive. Every single day in the US, there are scores of confiscations of people\u2019s bank accounts, and dozens having their doors broken down in the wee hours of the night. The ethos in the US really seems to be changing right before our very eyes, and I think it\u2019s quite disturbing. It\u2019s a harbinger, I\u2019m afraid, of what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Thomas:\u00a0<\/strong><u>Yes, this change has certainly been more prevalent in the US than elsewhere.<\/u>\u00a0And I don\u2019t doubt that the black combat uniforms are intentional. Psychologically, combat gear is very threatening. It serves only one purpose\u2014aggression. And blue is the color of officialdom, whilst black is the color of death. This, to me, was a very conscious change\u2014maximum intimidation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick Giambruno:<\/strong>\u00a0Police training has also changed. The War on (some) Drugs and the so-called War on Terror have turbocharged police militarization. What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doug Casey:\u00a0<\/strong>As a general rule, police&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/08\/nick-giambruno\/us-deliberately-created-police-state\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Casey, Jeff Thomas, and Nick Giambruno recently discussed a critical topic\u2014the rise of a police state in the former \u201cfree\u201d world. Nick Giambruno:\u00a0In my experience, the US has some of the most aggressive police in the world. I first noticed this when I started traveling many years ago. I\u2019ve also noticed that law-abiding citizens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-323946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}