Once upon a time, the United States was a land of unparalleled
freedom. The rest of the world envied the freedom that ordinary
Americans had to think, say and do what they wanted. But all of that
has changed. Now Americans have to fear that they will be tackled by a
squad of security goons and dragged off to a detention facility
somewhere if they spill a Pepsi on a flight attendant or take a few too
many pictures of a public building. The United States used to be the
polar opposite of totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany and the Soviet
Union, but now America is rapidly becoming very much like them. Due to
the fear of a boogeyman living in a cave somewhere or some guy with
explosive powder in his underwear we are all being forced to give up our
freedoms and learn to live in a Big Brother police state.
But have things really changed so much that we have to give up all of
the cherished freedoms that our fathers and grandfathers fought and
died for? Haven't there always been fanatics and crazies and criminals
out there? Why do we suddenly have to become so afraid of them?
In the past, Americans would not let anyone make them live in fear.
If some unbalanced individual did something bad, it wasn't the end of
the world, was it? No, in the past Americans dusted themselves off and
continued to live as free men and women. You see, when we live in fear
and radically alter our way of life just to feel a little more
secure, we lose. We have let someone else steal our freedom and our
dignity.
But now in the name of "security" all kinds of bizarre proposals have
been implemented on the local, state and national levels. Somehow we
think that if everything that we do is watched, monitored and analyzed
we will all be safer somehow.
Maybe we are safer and maybe we aren't, but we are certainly a whole
lot less free.
The following are 20 signs that the United States is rapidly becoming
a totalitarian "Big Brother" police state….