Displaying items by tag: police state
OPINION: O Canada: Let us now praise the 'Freedom Convoy'
The global establishment press has spilled metric tons of ink trying to paint Canada's "freedom convoy" as a gaggle of racist pinheads holding up progress for the heck of it.
OPINION: Tyrants of the Nanny State: When the government thinks it knows best
We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the so-called name of the national good by an elite class of governmental and corporate officials who are largely insulated from the ill effects of their actions.
OPINION: One Nation Under Greed: The profit incentives driving the American Police State
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” ― Frédéric Bastiat, French economist
If there is an absolute maxim by which the American government seems to operate, it is that the taxpayer always gets ripped off.
OPINION: Virtual School Dangers: The hazards of a police state education during COVID-19
Over the course of the past 30 years, the need to keep the schools “safe” from drugs and weapons has become a thinly disguised, profit-driven campaign to transform them into quasi-prisons, complete with surveillance cameras, metal detectors, police patrols, zero tolerance policies, lock downs, drug sniffing dogs, school resource officers, strip searches, and active shooter drills.
COLUMN: Orwell’s '1984' is no longer fiction
“You had to live— did live, from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, "1984"
Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state.