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JEB

(4,748 posts)
Thu Oct 9, 2014, 01:00 PM Oct 2014

Some practical information for our citizens.

Should We Just Follow Orders? Rules of Engagement for Resisting the Police State
By John Whitehead

The perils of resisting the police state grow more costly with each passing day, especially if you hope to escape with your life and property intact. The thing you must remember is that we've entered an age of militarized police in which we're no longer viewed as civilians but as enemy combatants.

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If this is war--and a good case could be made for the fact that the government is indeed waging a war on the American citizenry--then the tactics I'm about to outline could be considered nonviolent guerilla warfare, using whatever strategic, legal, creative and nonviolent means are available.

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Knowing your rights is only part of the battle, unfortunately. The hard part comes in when you have to exercise those rights in order to hold government officials accountable to respecting those rights.

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Clearly, the language of freedom is no longer the common tongue spoken by the citizenry and their government. With the government having shifted into a language of force, "we the people" have been reduced to suspects in a surveillance state, criminals in a police state, and enemy combatants in a military empire.
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Please take a few minutes and review the whole article.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Should-We-Just-Follow-Orde-by-John-Whitehead-Criminal_Freedoms_Justice_Justice-Delayed-141008-737.html

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