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'''Police State''' is a term used to describe a [[government]] that has imposed ruthless and restrictive measures over its [[citizen]]s. The measures can include heavy [[surveillance]], repression of [[free speech]] and [[freedom of religion]], rigid rules in terms of association, government control over the [[media]] and [[political]] [[tyranny]].

'''Police State''' is a term used to describe a [[government]] that has imposed ruthless and restrictive measures over its [[citizen]]s. The measures can include heavy [[surveillance]], repression of [[free speech]] and [[freedom of religion]], rigid rules in terms of association, government control over the [[media]] and [[political]] [[tyranny]].

Often the first step in the creation of a police state is mandatory [[gun registration]] and [[gun control]] leading to [[gun confiscation]] and disarming the citizens. This [[civilian disarmament]] followed by summary execution and then [[genocide]]<ref>[[Gun_control#Gun_Control_and_Genocide]]</ref> happened in [[Turkey]] from 1911, the [[Soviet Union]] from 1929, [[China]] from 1935, [[Germany]] from 1938, [[Cambodia]] from 1956, [[Guatemala]] from 1964, [[Uganda]] from 1970 under [[Idi Amin]], [[Argentina]] from 1976, [[Bosnia]]-Herzegovina from 1992, Sierra Leone from 2000, Darfur from 2006. All [[communist]] countries ([[Vietnam]], [[North Korea]], [[Cuba]], etc) and many [[socialist]]-tendency countries such as [[Great Britain]], [[France]], [[Canada]] and [[Australia]] have disarmed their populace.<ref>[http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/rkba-12.html The True Face of Gun Control], Dean Speir, The Gun Zone RKBA, Accessed March 28, 2014</ref>

Often the first step in the creation of a police state is mandatory [[gun registration]] and [[gun control]] leading to [[gun confiscation]] and disarming the citizens. This [[civilian disarmament]] followed by summary execution and then [[genocide]]<ref>[[Gun control#Gun Control and Genocide]]</ref> happened in [[Turkey]] from 1911, the [[Soviet Union]] from 1929, [[China]] from 1935, [[Germany]] from 1938, [[Cambodia]] from 1956, [[Guatemala]] from 1964, [[Uganda]] from 1970 under [[Idi Amin]], [[Argentina]] from 1976, [[Bosnia]]-Herzegovina from 1992, Sierra Leone from 2000, Darfur from 2006. All [[communist]] countries ([[Vietnam]], [[North Korea]], [[Cuba]], etc) and many [[socialist]]-tendency countries such as [[Great Britain]], [[France]], [[Canada]] and [[Australia]] have disarmed their populace.<ref>[http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/rkba-12.html The True Face of Gun Control], Dean Speir, The Gun Zone RKBA, Accessed March 28, 2014</ref>

Disarmed citizens of a police state can more easily be deemed [[enemy combatants]] or potential "[[terrorist]]s" and subjected to summary [[execution]]<ref> http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/when-a-republican-murders-u-s-citizens by [[Ted Nugent]] Accessed March 28, 2014</ref> by [[Executive Order]]<ref>"Few things are as dangerous to [[America]]n [[liberty]] as the proposition that the [[government]] should be able to kill [[citizen]]s anywhere in the world on the basis of legal standards and evidence that are never submitted to a [[court]], either before or after the fact. Anyone willing to trust President [[Obama]] with the power to secretly declare an American citizen an [[enemy of the state]] and order his [[extrajudicial]] killing should ask whether they would be willing to trust the next president with that dangerous power." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/us-targeted-killings-eric-holder_n_1320515.html Accessed March 28, 2014</ref> is the punishment of choice for a wide variety of offenses, both [[criminal]] and [[political]], under the rule of a dictator.

Disarmed citizens of a police state can more easily be deemed [[enemy combatants]] or potential "[[terrorist]]s" and subjected to summary [[execution]]<ref>http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/when-a-republican-murders-u-s-citizens by [[Ted Nugent]] Accessed March 28, 2014</ref> by [[Executive Order]]<ref>"Few things are as dangerous to [[America]]n [[liberty]] as the proposition that the [[government]] should be able to kill [[citizen]]s anywhere in the world on the basis of legal standards and evidence that are never submitted to a [[court]], either before or after the fact. Anyone willing to trust President [[Obama]] with the power to secretly declare an American citizen an [[enemy of the state]] and order his [[extrajudicial]] killing should ask whether they would be willing to trust the next president with that dangerous power." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/us-targeted-killings-eric-holder_n_1320515.html Accessed March 28, 2014</ref> is the punishment of choice for a wide variety of offenses, both [[criminal]] and [[political]], under the rule of a dictator.

[[Nazi]] [[Germany]] and other [[socialist]]-[[communist]] regimes such as [[Cuba]] are examples of police states. [[George Orwell]]'s novel ''[[1984]]'' is a fictional example of a police state.

[[Nazi]] [[Germany]] and other [[socialist]]-[[communist]] regimes such as [[Cuba]] are examples of police states. [[George Orwell]]'s novel ''[[1984]]'' is a fictional example of a police state.

==Quotes about Police States==

==Quotes about Police States==

* "The progress of [[science]] in furnishing the [[big government|government]] with means of [[espionage]] is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the [[Police state|government]], without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a [[jury]] the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the [[liberty]] of every man in the hands of every [[tyrant|petty officer]]' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these. 1 To Lord Camden a far slighter intrusion seemed '[[subversive]] of all the comforts of society.' Can it be that the [[Constitution]] affords no protection against such invasions of [[Fourth Amendment|individual security]]?"

* "The progress of [[science]] in furnishing the [[big government|government]] with means of [[espionage]] is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a [[jury]] the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the [[liberty]] of every man in the hands of every [[tyrant|petty officer]]' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these. 1 To Lord Camden a far slighter intrusion seemed '[[subversive]] of all the comforts of society.' Can it be that the [[Constitution]] affords no protection against such invasions of [[Fourth Amendment|individual security]]?"

** [[Louis Brandeis]], Dissenting, ''[[Olmstead v. United States]]'', 277 U.S. 438 (1928).

** [[Louis Brandeis]], Dissenting, ''[[Olmstead v. United States]]'', 277 U.S. 438 (1928).

==See Also==

==See also==

* [[Big government]] [[liberal]] [[Welfare state]] leads to [[socialist]] [[Nanny state]], leads to [[communist]] [[Police state]]

* [[Big government]] [[liberal]] [[Welfare state]] leads to [[socialist]] [[Nanny state]], leads to [[communist]] Police state

* [[Gun control]] - key element to create a police state

* [[Gun control]] - key element to create a police state

* [[Liberal totalitarianism]]

* [[Liberal totalitarianism]]

==External Links==

==External links==

* http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/episode-1094-massad-ayoob-on-lethal-force-aftermath

* http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/episode-1094-massad-ayoob-on-lethal-force-aftermath

* [[Stewart Rhodes]] from [[Oath Keepers]] on Restoring the Republic: http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-founder, [[The Survival Podcast]]

* [[Stewart Rhodes]] from [[Oath Keepers]] on Restoring the Republic: http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-founder, [[The Survival Podcast]]

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