The Road to Police State

We're further along than we'd like to think

Last night, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was stabbed in prison. Latest reports suggest he survived. As most of you probably know, the evidence that Chauvin murdered George Floyd in a fit of racism is scant —it’s fair to say it was entirely manufactured.

It got me thinking about how far along we are on the road to an American police state. I have not yet seen Dinesh D’Souza’s film on the subject, so maybe I’m covering the same ground. I fear that we are a lot further down the road than most people would like to think.

It’s tempting to assume that the structural institutions of the United States of America remain sound: that our justice system still pursues justice, that our political system remains accountable to the voters, and that the Constitution remains the supreme law of the land.

Tragically, that is clearly no longer the case.

Derek Chauvin was just a cop doing his job, but the media industrial complex was actively looking for the next Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown to spark a new round of race riots. His restraint of career criminal George Floyd was caught on video, so he became the scapegoat, convicted in a sham trial where evidence of Floyd’s death by fentanyl overdose was ignored and a jury was threatened to deliver the right verdict.

Owen Shroyer is a host on Alex Jones’ Infowars.com. Though he was at the Capitol on January 6th, he did not enter, nor did he engage in anything illegal. Nevertheless, he sits in prison right now, accused of “hyping up” the protestors. He believes he is being made an example of for maintaining that the 2020 election was stolen.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked uncounted young girls for the pleasure of rich and powerful men. Epstein escaped one set of charges and returned to high society, despite everyone knowing what he was doing. When he was caught the second time, he died in prison, but we will never know why because the surveillance cameras malfunctioned and the guards fell asleep.

Maxwell was convicted and sent to prison herself, but the records of which wealthy and powerful men were involved were sealed.

Journalist Andy Ngo was brutally injured while covering an Antifa riot in Portland. Despite his assault being caught on video, no arrests were made. Ngo sued his assailants in civil court, but the Antifa lawyer literally threatened the jury, saying “I am Antifa,” and promised that she would remember their faces. The jury ruled against Ngo.

After a spate of burglaries in their Georgia neighborhood, Gregory McMichael and his son Travis tracked down a suspect who was seen around a house under construction. Their friend William Bryan followed, recording the interaction. The suspect, Ahmaud Arbery, tried to grab the McMichael’s shotgun and was killed in the scuffle. The federal government brought “hate crimes” charges against all three, sentencing them to life in prison. Bryan undoubtedly assumed that recording the incident would

Kyle Rittenhouse spent the day cleaning up after the previous night’s riots in the neighborhood where he worked. That evening he carried a rifle to defend small businesses in Kenosha, Wisconsin. When he helped put out a dumpster fire set by rioters he became a target, and was attacked several times by thugs armed with guns and even a skateboard. After shooting three of them, two fatally, Rittenhouse attempted to turn himself in. Despite the entire incident being caught on video, local prosecutors charged him with murder, and leftist media tarred him as a racist, despite the three men he shot all being white. Two years after his exoneration by a jury and leftists still seethe with hatred for the young man. Like Chauvin and Bryan, he was supposed to pay for the supposed sins of America, but he got away.

Dinesh D’Souza himself admittedly broke campaign finance law by reimbursing friends for donations to a political candidate. Such violations typically result in a fine, but the Obama Justice Department threw the book at him, threatening him with five years in prison if he did not agree to a deal to spend five years on probation and eight months in a halfway house. He served his time and was pardoned by President Trump.

All of these people have been persecuted, either for their conservative political views or as convenient scapegoats for false media narratives. Yet consider who has not been prosecuted —Hillary Clinton destroyed records of her tenure as Secretary of State, Anthony Fauci helped create Covid-19 and hid evidence of its origins, Joe Biden spent his career laundering bribes from foreign nations through his family, and countless people spent the summer of 2020 rioting in every major city, but few faced punishment.

On May 29, 2020, Antifa and BLM rioters breached the White House gates, set St. John’s Church on fire, injuring dozens of Secret Service agents, and forcing the president into a bunker. Yet few remember May 29 compared to January 6, simply because the media industrial complex chose to ignore one and amplify the other.

That is the essence of a police state: a two-tiered system of justice. In an ideal society, the one our founders envisioned, justice is blind, ensuring that all people, no matter their status, wealth, or connections, are held to the same standard. Clearly that is no longer the case. Our justice system today more resembles the Court of Star Chamber, where the king could punish his enemies for imagined offenses while pardoning his friends.

Donald Trump is the top target for our burgeoning police state. Over the last few months, the federal government and several states have indicted him on nonsense charges designed to ensure he cannot return to power no matter how many Americans support him. Leftist prosecutors campaigned on getting Trump, and leftist journalists salivate at the idea of Trump dying in prison. Right now Trump leads all the polls, but you can bet that the regime will not allow him to win election by any means necessary.

So how then shall we live? What can we do in Idaho to stand up to this nascent Soviet America? I don’t have all the answers, but the first thing to do is let go of the idea that this is still your grandfather’s country. Rather than being mostly fine, our institutions are rotten to the core and need to be completely reformed. It starts from the ground up. Support candidates and lawmakers who recognize what time it is. Make sure your local mayors, sheriffs, and prosecutors are aware of the situation and will not give in to pressure to subvert justice in the name of the narrative. The position of attorney general is enormously important for protecting our rights.

Urge your representatives to maintain, or even to reclaim, state sovereignty. The core of a police state is in its centralized power, while the genius of America was in the distribution of power at various levels. Having fifty strong states is perhaps our best defense against a police state. Let’s make Idaho a bulwark of freedom and liberty no matter what happens outside our borders.