I've Got Bad News And Good News

First the bad news. Our once great American republic has become an empire to the rest of the world and a police state for its own citizens. When I was young, one of the principles of law in this country was every man is innocent until proven guilty. While that principle may still be given lip service, in fact standing operating practice is, given the slightest provocation, every man is a drug dealing terrorist. This is an example of what I am talking about. This kind of thing is becoming all too common. For every instance that we learn about, you can be assured that there are a couple of dozen more that get covered up successfully because there are not any witnesses. This shift of our police from "public servants" who protect and serve to "law ENFORCEMENT officers" has been due in no small part to the para-military training so many police have received in the name of the war on drugs and the war on terror. Years ago, I heard Gordon Liddy talking about S.W.A.T. teams on the radio. He said that when you dress men up in those black jump suits and train them like they are soldiers sooner or later they are gonna put that training to use, often times in situations where it is not appropriate. As for the empire side of it, any country that has troops permanently stationed in over 100 other countries and that actively engages in "regime change" in the countries that do not agree with its policies, must be called an empire.

Now the good news. We are a bankrupt, debtor nation. All that stands between third world status and us is the reluctance of China and Japan to call in their financial markers. China alone owns over 1 Trillion dollars in US debt. We have exported our industry overseas. A sizeable portion of our GDP during the last few years has been due to a Ponzi scheme in real estate construction and finance. That real estate bubble is slowly beginning to collapse. That does not sound like good news you say? Well it may not be great news but in it lies the seeds of our redemption. You see, it takes megabucks to run a police state / empire. We are rapidly approaching the point where the Federal Government will no longer be able to fund their idiotic schemes. Most of the good people who now are manning the police state / empire will be forced back into the private sector for economic reasons. It will be a painful comeuppance to many of us, but just like the little kid who is punished for stealing cookies from the cookie jar or pushing his little brother or sister down, we will learn a valuable lesson.