Police state

A police state is one in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of the population. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control, and there is usually little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive.

The inhabitants of a police state experience restrictions on their mobility, and on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state.

Source: Wikipedia

If you – like me – live in a westernized country, reading the above will probably have triggered images of deserts and brownish men with big moustaches killing other brownish men with even bigger moustaches. But did you ever consider the possibility of a police state not so very far away from home? Let’s see, for example like right where you are currently enjoying your modern, civilized and democratic life? No? Oh… Well, you might be in for a bit of a nasty surprise then.

For starters: does the country where you reside have a government? I bet it does. If this is the case, then your government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of the population. That’s what it’s there for in the first place. Governments have claimed a monopoly on violence and use that to extort (tax) money from defenseless citizens. But they have absolutely no right to do so. You never gave your government the right to dominate and control your life using violence; your government just decided to take that privilege and then made you succumb to it. Governments are based on violence and force, not on voluntarism. That’s rigid and repressive control, right there.

People have to work about five days a week to be able to survive governmental greed. I’d say that’s a pretty big impact on social life. When it comes to economic life, I just need to point at the hilarious amounts of tax money being directed to the banking world recently. Or what about governments being deeply involved in the “free trade market”? It’s all rigged bullshit. And for political life: that’s just one big fucking joke. Politics is a way of selling policy that was created by corporatism to unsuspecting slaves of human farms all over planet Earth. And maybe a successful way of making a career for yourself if you happen to be a sociopath who has no problems whatsoever with ass-fisting elitist anuses and just loves raping entire populations.

The second paragraph in Wikipedia’s definition of a police state describes precisely what is going on in westernized countries all the time. Really. Take my farm, for example: The Netherlands. We have something called the AIVD and these guys go wild when it comes to “operating outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state”. Wire tapping, internet traffic monitoring, just name something intrusive and the AIVD secretively does it. In massive amounts. It’s hysterical. Constitutional? My ass. Even the “justice” department constantly violates its own laws.

And “restrictions on mobility?” Laughing out loud. See the part on having to work five days a week. It gets even worse: you can’t go anywhere to get rid of this terminal disease known as statism; run away and another statist farm will be yours to get locked up into right away. “Freedom to express political or other views”? Ha. Ever heard of exciting stuff like ACTA, SOPA, PROTECT IP, NDAA, INDECT already being present or lurking around the corner? Say bye bye to freedom. In any way possible.

Really, you live in a police state.

We all do.