| | '''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>https://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." https://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>https://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." https://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. |