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According to a Free Keene report, well known libertarians Rich Paul and Capuzzo, along with a female named Jackie, were arrested while "traveling through the police state of Massachusetts" on June 30.
They were apparently charged with possessing cannabis and a firearm.
The report did not mention that any crime had been committed, only that the trio had some plant material and a tool.
They may also have been in possession of other comparable inanimate objects, such as a cotton shirt or a ballpoint pen, but no other information is currently available.
When fellow activists and Cop Block bloggers Adam Mueller and Pete Eyre traveled to Greenfield MA to bail them out they were arrested.
In a followup report on July 2 it was reported that Mueller was charged with resisting arrest (apparently for failure to eagerly reveal his name) and wiretapping (presumably the "legal" name for videotaping) while Eyre was loaded up with five charges, including VIN (vehicle identification number) removal, possession of a gun without a FID (Firearms 
Identification) card, and wiretapping (apparently a felony in the CommonWraith of Massachusetts).
Again, there was no mention of any crime having been committed, only that some peaceful individuals had done some peaceful things without harming, threatening, or cheating anyone.
Whoever says America is becoming a police state, or is heading toward a police state, or is in danger of turning into a police state, has set their tolerance bar for police states way too low.
The country is awash in brain dead soul dead vampire-like thugs devoid of conscious individual personhood. As sharks exist to eat, as junkyard dogs exist to kill, government owned and trained pit bulls variously called Police or Law Enforcement Officers or Cops exist, like Ring Wraiths, solely to obey their political masters.
In regard to their fellow citizens they have no concept of conscience or principles or humanity.
They exist solely to enforce "the law," meaning any collection of words put on paper by the political kingpins, no matter how grotesquely misguided or immoral those "laws" may be.
When people who have harmed no one, threatened no one, defrauded no one, are routinely kidnapped by the state's enforcement grunts and locked in cages, you are living in a police state.
Wake up and smell the starched uniforms.
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couldn't agree more
Any interaction with agents of the State has become a life and death struggle. This will begin having unintended consequences.
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@Kent - you'll be happy to hear that we pinned the "Time's Up!" flag I bought from you back in the day in MARV's windshield (Adam's suggestion). Makes MARV look badass and communicates a clear, principled message.
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Great piece, Garry!
One thing, though - you shouldn't blame the cops. We need cops, and they serve a vital role in our society. Blame the government that tasks them with arresting all these peaceful, non-violent citizens.
- R
Absolutely! Americas cops wear not only the uniform of the former German storm troopers, they are allowed to act like them.
We don't need those cops. Europe, Canada, Britain and even Russia has "normal" acting not gun and torture crazy police men.
Shooting a 7 year old girl (black of course) and telling the public afterwards the work according to their procedures its not only ridiculous it is criminal.
In America the cops cause more harm and commit more crimes than the real criminals.
Sure you can blame the leadership or the government, but in the end it is the individual who is responsible for its acts - that is what the judges in Nuremberg told the Germans.
@RSDavis - I think you have it backwards. If the govt didn't have police they wouldn't pass the bad laws for the thugs enforce. Since you can't do links here I ask that you Google an article I wrote on the subject, "Drug Prohibition: Law Enforcement Is The Problem" Thx.
Well said, Kent.
"We don't need those cops. Europe, Canada, Britain and even Russia has "normal" acting not gun and torture crazy police men."
Apparently you don't follow international news.
No, RSDavis. You are partly wrong. Blame the POPULACE who ELECTED these brain-dead vampires.
I can give you a short list of countries to live in for just a little while; after which you'll come home and kiss the ground.
Apparently there are now two Marcs so I will start using my last initial. Great article Garry. If it looks like a police state, smells like a police state, and acts like a police state it is definitely a police state. With the official national debt pushing fourteen trillion dollars there is still plenty of money to cage formerly productive people for engaging in peaceful voluntary behavior. Alas, there are very few things left these days which are not crimes against the state. Another way of putting it is there are very few things still allowed and one must scrutinize thousands of pages of laws to determine exactly what they are.
Question? how many of you want to be in, 1 fema camps, 2 state jails, 3 State prisons. or 4 Start standing up to these thugs inforce? 1,2,and3 are sure ways to allow the taking of liberty and lives as well as freedom,while in turn giving you a collar and a chain hooked to it. the other is to die or to live for what this country was at one time A REPUBLIC. Not 1 out of 100,000 people know the constitution bill of rights or the declaration of independence. And we wait while some one else makes the decisions. I am a dejure Grand jurist for the state of Idaho. On my head is the knowledge that if you dont join in the re-establishment of this Republic that my live will be vacant at the take over.Restore America Plan. you know ive been proud of my country all my life but this government is not my country.
The hilarious thing is, the gun-toting droogs are the ones who get all teary-eyed patriotic on the 4th of July ... oblivious to the irony that if they had been alive in 1776 they would have been kissing the whip and wearing red coats.
The Foudners were (broadly speaking) DISSIDENTS. They were not whip-kissing acolytes to power. More importantly, they were not (like most thug-drones today) working to support a system that is diametrically opposed to their class interests.
Cheerio
GT
After one month and three days, the local chapter of the ACLU forced the Santa Rosa City Police Chief to reveal the name of one of his cops who shot an unarmed man in cold blood. He said that he was afraid for the safety of Policeman Mark Furst.This was not the first time that he'd killed an unarmed man in cold blood. Then he was shot three times in the back. Sonoma county's police have killed seven mentally ill people in the past five years. Do the citizens care? No. Do they support the cops? Yes. What does all this mean? That the people of this county favor police state?
mcm says:
"I can give you a short list of countries to live in for just a little while; after which you'll come home and kiss the ground. "
So what? In a room full of idiots, one will rise to the top.
Excellent article! By the time we realize its here, its to late!
Pete Eyre- Too cool!
Remember it really is a very thin blue line
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