Little by little, step by step, inch by inch, they are turning the United States of America into a police state from which there is no escape.

Criminalizing Rights to Peaceably Assemble? Militia Now Viewed as "Gangs"

Legislation proposed by state Rep. Mike Shelton would increase the penalty for individuals involved in unauthorized militias or similar domestic-terror groups.

“There has been a great deal of attention given to increasing the penalties for those involved in gang activity, and while I agree that gangs are terrorizing many communities, they are not the only such threat in our state,” said Shelton, D-Oklahoma City. “In Oklahoma we have seen the damage done by militia fanatics and the Ku Klux Klan has a long history of violence and domestic terrorism. Involvement in those types of organizations should be treated no differently than participation in an urban gang.”

This is a foot in the door strategy .   Now we make assembly by legal militia illegal.   Next, we round up those malcontents and if McCain/Lieberman get their way, hold them indefinitely and without warrant or trial.   

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McCain and Lieberman's "Enemy Belligerent" Act Could Set U.S. on Path to Military Dictatorship

As constitutional expert Glenn Greenwald has pointed out, "It's basically a bill designed to formally authorize what the Bush administration did to American citizen Jose Padilla -- arrest him on U.S. soil and imprison him for years in military custody with no charges.

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The First Amendment says:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The "freedom to peaceably assemble" makes possible the exchange of information and ideas that a democratic society needs to make sound decisions about its own governance and it gives us a feeling of solidarity in thought and purpose.  


If this doesn't send a chill up your spine,  let alone set off alarms, bells and red flashing lights in your brain,  you are not paying attention.    


These two bills combined,  give the government the ability to take you, hold you indefinitely and all this without benefit of warrant or charges but that you might, could, may be affiliated with or part of a terrorist organization or simple have a belligerent attitude.   Now combine that with trampling on your right to assemble and you can see where this is leading can't you?