The US Is Fast Becoming a Third World Police State
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 1:40PM As a P.T. (often referred to as perpetual traveller, permanent tourist or prior taxpayer), I have travelled to nearly 100 countries. During those travels there has always been one defining moment, upon entry into a country, which shows that the country is what is generally thought of as a "third world country".
It is the moment when, upon arrival, you are charged a fee to enter the country. The reason generally being that the government of the country has so destroyed the economy and/or they have so little understanding of what creates wealth that they think that the way to make their country prosperous is to charge a fee upon entry rather than allowing people to enter freely and transact, trade and spend their money in the economy. Either that or the government is so desperate for money that it uses this as a significant source of revenue.
They have this in Cambodia, Indonesia, Bolivia and numerous other similar countries. And now, they have it in the US.
The US has long-used "visa application fees" to bilk money from people in countries like Thailand as a way to raise money but now the US has announced that they are going to charge a $5.50 fee to Canadians upon entering the US.
The fee is ludicrous and counterproductive for many reasons. Not least of which is making it five dollars and fifty cents, ensuring that payment of the transaction will take twice as long as normal to make the extra change. Canadians who are one of the only large groups of people still bringing some economic activity into the US will both be turned off by having to pay to enter the US but also by the extra long lines to enter as they make change for this fee.
Not to mention the hilarity of calling it an "inspection fee". Does this mean that if we would not like to be inspected then we don't have to pay?
CHECKPOINTS POPPING UP EVERYWHERE IN THE US
Checkpoints have recently gone up in Flint, Michigan and TSA VIPR (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) teams have spread our across Tennessee to stop drivers and "check their documents".
As well, at the recent Libertopia conference I attended in San Diego I met three young freedom-lovers who told me that on their drive from Phoenix to San Diego they encountered three different checkpoints.
HARD TO GET IN - EVEN HARDER TO GET OUT
I have just returned from the US and, as usual, I had to make it through a plethora of government people to get out.
Luckily, I didn't try to leave via one of the airports, like Boston Logan where the TSA has begun to conduct "chat-downs" where TSA goons will slime their way through crowds in the airport and chat with you! Should you refuse to chat with them you will be taken away for extra-screening!
However, I did go for my standard TSA patdown and, as is becoming more and more common, when you walk down the gangplank to the airplane there are a number of other government people hiding around the corner who stop you and ask if you are taking more than $10,000 with you. I snapped a photo of them on my way down.
As I walked down the runway, one of the men with guns told me, "go to the third man down, he can take care of you there." Oh, is that what they are doing, taking care of us? It doesn't feel that way.
CHRONIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER INJECTIONS ALSO NOW AVAILABLE
Things in the US just get more and more bizarre.
As though all the government harassing isn't enough, as I was about to leave the San Diego airport I spotted this "H1N1 vaccination station".
H1N1 (remember the Swine Flu hoax?) has been shown to be nearly harmless yet still to this day, in the USA, there are places offering to give you H1N1 vaccinations. Those vaccinations, by the way, have been proven to cause chronic nervous system disorders. I, tragically, had this hit very close to home last year when my mother, unbeknownst to me, got talked into taking a Swine Flu vaccine shot. A few days later and she couldn't walk anymore. She still, to this day, cannot walk.
THE POLICE STATE CONTINUES
The photos coming out of the US continue to look like something you'd see in a country like North Korea or in the old Soviet Bloc.
This photo, from a small gathering of Occupy Wall Street protesters in Phoenix, shows that not only the police outnumbered the protesters but showed the level of intimidation and force used against just a few people sitting in a park. Their crime? They were there after "curfew". I've been searching my copy of the US Constitution for any reference to curfew but have yet to find anything.
MY DAYS VISITING THE US ARE NUMBERED
I have already stated that I will never bring my family to the US until I see major changes and the TSA stop their radiation baths and groping. However, it is now getting very close to the point where I will stop going altogether.
For anyone who has their eyes open and are paying attention, the writing is on the wall as to what is going to happen in the US. All it will take is another 9/11 event or for the US Government to default on its debts or for the dollar to enter hyperinflation and the US will be locked down like a prison.
In many ways, it already is.
For those who live in the US, it is imperative to begin making moves now to protect yourself. Action items like attaining a foreign passport, moving your assets outside of the country and owning precious metals are just some of the things that all rational people in the US should be doing now.
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Reader Comments (75)
One: I have no extra money laying around to buy silver and gold.
Two: passport is tangible and a good piece of second ID, but the problem is getting all the nickle and diming of government fees for the documents to get the passport and the REAL ID permanent address bullsh!+ which can slow the process.
Three: I live in a one room long term rental run down motel and split the 300.00 a month rent and really have no more than two backpacks in assets.
My point is, a lot of people are broke in this jobless economy or on small amounts of social welfare benefits which are barely enough to get by.
F**KING HOLY MOTHER OF GOD !!
I know lot's of Portuguese Citizens that lived in both countries for several years and they are returning to Portugal or moving to Brasil or Angola, because the lack of jobs and the insecurity that foreign citizens have, when living there...
About the other countries, I won't make any comments...
Brasil has nice job offer, although. It's a nice alternative. (Better learn Portuguese!)
I wonder, can one remove their physical bullion outside the USA without being subject to seizure? It is very troubling as a citizen to see the Nazi-like developments in the USSA. Even more scary is the likelihood that
the shadow government here is trying to start a war with China, and here at home is engaging in population reduction etc.,. (vaccines, synthetic estrogen inhibitors, policies).
We wonder where to go and if we can afford to live there, far from our children. Argentina sounds promising.
What would the dollar amount necessary to set up a life in Argentina be for a retirement age couple to get out????
Thanks,
Davi bikelover48@yahoo.com
What would be a raw mechanical, fundamental reasoning for such an outcome, versus the one where the United States suffers the collapse (along with other nations) basically in the same or very similar mode of operation it is in now? What would necessitate the police state finalization as opposite to slow normal degradation towards the police state as is expected with any "democracy"?
I do have my reasoning, and it leads me to believe that the full blown police state should be an outcome, but I would really like to hear yours.
Well, golly gee whiz! You can't spell, and you are a moron to boot! On a scale of 1 to 10, on the animalistic mad dog scale, Bavarians and American honkies like you would be at around, oh, 10. I guess you are angry because some black person "stole" your spot at Harvard, eh, Mr. Spelling Bee? Yes, Germany is homogeneous, but I wouldn't bend over in the "shower" if you know what I mean...
Anyway, dude, why are Canadians suck, I mean such pricks nowadays? $5.50 to cross the border? Here is my advice: don't go to the U.S. ever again! We are all looking at you, fat and sloppy Canadian people across the border with "hungry eyes." You know, those hungry eyes you folks used to have over the Indians' land?
I've seen the future: rose garlands and maple syrup pancakes for the victors!
not on steroids..my area of Palermo is completely safe..
In North Argentina, I also have a property house in Las Toscas, near Resistencia..hot 99 in January and Feb and rains hard..but this village..cracks me up..like 3 cops..no stop signs..nobody pays attention to them..everyone has mopeds..
People have chickens and cows are everywhere..Many slaughter their own cows and sell to friends..Raw milk is available..taxes per year are 16pesos or 4us a year on my land of 1/3 acre which has 5 mango trees and 3 citrus..and we built a basic house for 11kUS..road is not paved in front of us..2 blocks away is pavement should arrive soon..
there is a tannery, however, with its chemicals in the air..which you can smell ocassionally..
I am glad to read that you are happy among "white homogenous [sic] people," whatever that means;..inbred?
But take a minute to reflect on the "white homogenous" [sic] people that just bombed to the stone age and killed tens of thousands of citizens of a debt-free nation, a nation with universal healthcare and free education. Since this is not the first time that such an event happened (by far), then should the non-Western world fear roving gangs of mad, "anaimalistic [sic], depraved white homogenous" [sic] gangs roving like mad dogs and stealing in stores and beating non-homogeneous people?
Where in the whole Western world (read "white homogenous," snork snork) is there a debt-free nation? Debt is future labor, and when and if your frightened, beady eyes finally open, you might realize that you are a slave.
BTW, does your company require that its employees learn to spell?
reflection of the US must be a Liberal FOOL.
There was an article about these two women being hunted down by the IRS for owing seven years of back taxes.
The reason why they owed this?
They were born to American parents.....
They never lived in the States.
The US govt is requiring banks in every country to report to them every US citizen bank account holder!
They are coming after all expats money to help pay for the massive unpayable deficit.
I am so glad I didn't get the green card to work in the states when they held those green card lotteries back in the 80's and 90's.
glta
David
david@no2foreclosures.info