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Title: Policing for Profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.’s Thinly Veiled Plot to Rob Us Blind (Full Video)
Published: 2017-12-14
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezXdnmdJih4
Title: Policing for Profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.’s Thinly Veiled Plot to Rob Us Blind (Full Video)
Published: 2017-12-14
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezXdnmdJih4
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If there's one absolute rule by which the government seems to operate, it's that the American taxpayer always gets ripped off. This is true whether you're talking about taxpayers being forced to fund high-price weaponry that will be used againstless, endless wars that do little for our safety or our freedoms, or bloated government agencies such as the National Security Agency, the NSA, when it's secret budgets and it's2/34
secret agenda. Building salt in the wound, even monetary awards and lawsuits against government officials who are found guilty of wrongdoing are paid by us the taxpayer. In other words, government agents get off scot free and believe it or not, American taxpayers are forced to spend more on state, municipal and federal taxes than the annual financial burdens of food, clothing and housing combined. Everywhere you go, everything3/34
you do and every which way you look you're getting swindle-cheated, conned, robbed, rated, pick pocketed, deceived, defrauded and fleeced by governmental and corporate shareholders of the American police state out to make a profit at taxpayer expense. Think about it for a moment. You pay a hefty fee just to be able to walk free. It's called income tax. As former president candidate Ron Paul recognizes and I'm4/34
quoting, the founding fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earned to the government. And if you refuse to pay any of the so-called income tax, you'll be severely fined and or arrested and put in jail. One more thing. You don't really own your property. That is, your house or even your land. And when you pay off the mortgage, if5/34
you fail to pay your property taxes, government agents will evict you and take your home. Is that what we call freedom? Meanwhile, the corporate state has created a totalitarian regime to rule over us. The costly signs are everywhere. warrantless surveillance of American's private phone and email conversations by the NSA. Swat team raids of American's homes. Shooting of unarmed citizens by police, harsh punishments, meet it out6/34
to school children in the name of zero tolerance, endless wars. Out of control spending, militarized police, roadside strip searches, privatized prisons with a profit and sentient for jailing Americans and militarized local police with stockpiles of ammunition. These are some of the most appalling signs of an authoritarian regime, ladies and gentlemen. The conclusion, we are now rule by government consumed with squeezing every last penny out of7/34
the population and unconcerned if essential freedoms are trampled in the process. As with most things, if you want to know the real motives behind any government program, follow the money trail. And if you do your research, you will quickly find that those who profit from the American taxpayer are none other than the police who arrest them, the courts, which tried them, the prisons, which incarcerate them,8/34
and the corporations, which manufacture the weapons, equipment and prisons used by the American police state. The following are some examples of government sanctioned extortion. The schools, the security industrial complex with its tracking spying and identification devices has set its sights on the schools as a vast rich market, a $20 billion market no less just waiting to be conquered. In fact, the public schools have become a9/34
microcosm of the total surveillance state, which dominates America. Schools are now using a host of surveillance technologies, including video cameras, finger and palm scanners, iris scanners, as well as RFID chips and GPS tracking devices to keep constant watch over their student bodies. Likewise, the military industrial complex with its military weapons, military detectors and weapons of compliance, such as tasers, has succeeded in transforming the schools at10/34
great taxpayer expense and personal profit in the quasi-prisons. Curiously, none of these efforts seem to have succeeded in making the schools any safer. Then, there are the prisons. States now have quotas to meet for how many Americans go to jail, increasing numbers of states and contracted to keep their prisons at 90 percent to 100 percent capacity, where it's filled up with prisoners. This profit-driven form of11/34
mass punishment has in turn given rise to a $70 billion private prison industry, where state governments keep their privately run prisons full, regardless of whether crime is rising or falling. Moreover, private prison companies help ripe the laws that drive up prison populations. Indeed, their livelihoods depend on towns, cities and states sending more people to prison and keeping them there. All the while, the prisoners are being12/34
forced to provide cheap labor for private corporations. No wonder the United States has the largest prison population in the world at a time when violent crime is at an all-time blow. Then, there's the endless wars abroad. Fueled by the profit-driven military-industrial complex, the government's endless wars are wreaking havoc on our communities, our budget and our police forces. Having been co-opted by greedy defense contractors, corrupt politicians13/34
and, in constant government officials, America's expanding military empire is bleeding the country dry at a rate of more than $57 million an hour. And that's just the budget for the Department of Defense for one year alone. In fact, the Pentagon spends more on war than all 50 states combined, believe it or not, spend on health, education, welfare and safety. And of course, there's the militarized police.14/34
The Department of Homeland Security routinely hands out six figure grants to enable local municipalities to purchase military-style vehicles, as well as a variable war chest of weaponry ranging from tactical vests, bomb disarming robots, assault weapons and combat uniforms. The end result, an explosive growth in the use of militarized SWAT teams for otherwise routine police batters, an increased tendency on the party police to shoot first and15/34
ask questions later, and an overall mindset within police forces that they are at war and the citizenry are the enemy combatants. Believe it or not, over 80,000 SWAT team raids are conducted on American homes each year with innocent citizens, including children, including children being killed. Of course, there's the profit driven scheme such as asset forfeiture. Under the guise of fighting the war on drugs, police have16/34
been given a broad leeway to cease billions of dollars worth of private property, money, cars, TVs and so on, they suspect, may be connected to criminal activity. And then there's the kicker. Whether or not any crime is actually proven to have taken place, the government keeps the citizens property often divvying it up with a local police who did the initial seizure. The police are actually being17/34
trained in seminars on how to seize what they call the goodies that are on police department's wish list. And there's the security industrial complex. Not only is the government spying on American phone calls and emails, but police are also being equipped with technology such as stingray devices that can track your cell phones, as well as record the content of your calls and the phone numbers dial.18/34
The Department of Homeland Security has distributed more than $50 million in grants. Again, paid by Wee the Taxpayers to enable local police agencies to acquire license plate readers, which rely on mobile cameras to photograph and identify cars, match them against the national database and track your every movement. The bottom line, the perverse nature of government authoritarianism, and corporate profits has increased the reach of the government19/34
into our private lives. And as always, it's Wee the People, Wee the Taxpayers, Wee the Global Voters who keep getting taken for a ride by politicians eager to promise us the world on a plate. In other words, we're being lied to on a daily basis. Moreover, this is a far cry from how represented government is supposed to operate. Indeed, it's been a long time since we20/34
could claim to be the masters of our own lives. Rather, we are now the subjects of a militarized corporate empire in which the vast majority of the citizenry work their hands to the bone for the benefit of a privileged feud. In other words, the corporate elite that runs the government. Being entry to the ongoing insult of having our tax dollars misused at our so-called representatives bought21/34
and paid for by the money delete, the government then turns around and uses the money we earn with our blood, sweat, and tears to target in prison and in traface in the form of militarized police, surveillance cameras, private prisons, license plate readers, and cell phone tracking technology. Folks, these are your tax dollars at work. Get your money that allows for government agents to spy on your22/34
emails, your phone calls, your text messages, and your movements. It's your money that allows out of control police officers to burst into innocent people's homes or probe and strip search motorists on the side of the road. Just remember, the next time you see a news story that makes your blood boil whether it's a police officer arresting someone for filming them in public or children being kicked23/34
out of school for shooting an imaginary arrow, remember that it's your tax dollars that are paying for these injustices. There was a time in our history when our forebearer said enough is enough and they stopped paying their taxes to what they considered an illegitimate government. They did what was right, they stood their ground, and refused to support a system that was slowly choking out any attempts24/34
at all at self-governments and which refused to be held accountable for its crimes against the people. They're resistant, so the seas for the revolution that would follow. Unfortunately, in the 200 years since we established our own government, we've let the corporate elite and the number crunching bureaucrats pilfer our bank accounts to such an extent that we're back where we started. Once again, we've got a despotic25/34
regime with an imperial ruler doing as they please. But what if we didn't just pull out our pocketbooks and pony up to the federal governments, outrageous demands for more and more money? What if we didn't just line up to drop our hard earned dollars into the corporate collection bucket? No questions asked about how it will be spent. What if instead of quietly sending in our checks,26/34
hoping vainly for some meager return, we did a little calculating of our own and started deducting from our own taxes, those programs that we refuse to support? If we don't have the right to decide what happens to our own hard earned money, our own hard earned cash, then we don't have very many rights at all. If they can just take from you what they want, when27/34
they want it, and then use it however they want it, you can't claim to be anything more than a surf, a slate, and a land they think of as theirs. This was the case in the colonial era that gave rise to a revolution and it's the case once again. However, an army vault will not work. Although we may have returned to a 1776 situation where we28/34
need to take drastic actions to restore freedom, this is not colonial America with its muskets and peoples' armies. Local police departments now have enough militarized firepower to do away with even a large-scale army vault, even attempting to repel a SWAT team raid on your home as futile. You'll get blown away. Therefore we must be wise and realize that there is power in numbers, networks, coalitions and29/34
movements can accomplish much. This will mean acting locally but thinking nationally. The greatest impact can be had at the local governing bodies such as City Councils. Join together with friends and neighbors and start a civil liberties oversight committee. Regularly attend City Council meetings and demand that government corruption be brought under control and that police activities be brought under the scrutiny of local governing bodies and therefore30/34
the citizenry. Remember that local towns, cities and states can nullify or say no to federal laws that violate the rights and freedoms of the citizenry. In fact, several states have passed laws stating that they will not comply with the NDAA which allows the military to indefinitely detain or imprison American citizens. Again, when and if you see such federal laws pass, gather your coalitions of citizens and31/34
demand that your local town council nullify such laws. If enough towns and cities across the country would speak truth to power in this way, we might see some positive movement from the federal governmental machine. Finally, we need to understand what freedom is all about. Who were the first persons to get the unusual idea that being free was not only a value to be cherished but the32/34
most important thing that someone can possess as Professor Orlando Patterson? He goes on, I'm quoting, the answer in a word, slaves. Freedom arose from the hearts and minds of those who realized that they were slaves. They became a primary passion of those who were victims of slavery. Folks, the choice is clear. Are you going to be a slave and march in lockstep with a governmental regime33/34
or are you going to speak out, disagree or even challenge the governmental policies that are destroying your freedoms? Unfortunately, as author Eric From recognized, and I'm quoting, an increasing number of people are afraid of the responsibility of freedom and prefer the slavery of the well-fed robot. They have no faith in democracy and are happy to leave it to the political experts to make the decisions. And34/34
as we have seen, the political experts, as they called, are all too happy to have obedient slaves as they increase their power and control and their profits. Thus, are you going to be an obedient slave or a free American citizen? If it's a latter, the time to act is now. Tomorrow will be too late.
