We've been railroaded into believing that it matters whether we vote Republican or Democratic, when truth be told, as the corporate state knows all too well, the only color that matters in politics is green.
We've gone from having privacy in our inner sanctums to having nowhere to hide. Even our cities have become wall-to-wall electronic concentration camps, with police now able to record hi-def video of everything that takes place within city limits.
We've had our schools locked down, our students handcuffed and arrested, our children's biometrics stored, their school IDs chipped, their movements tracked, and their data bought, sold and bartered for profit by government contractors.
We've been rendered enemy combatants in our own country. We've had the very military weapons we funded with our hard-earned tax dollars used against us.
We've been silenced, censored and forced to conform. We've been shot by police for reaching for a license during a traffic stop, reaching for a baby during a drug bust, carrying a toy sword down a public street, and wearing headphones that hamper our ability to hear.
We've been tasered for talking back to police, tackled for taking pictures of police abuses, and threatened with jail time for invoking our rights.
We've had our possessions seized and stolen by law-enforcement agencies looking to cash in on asset-forfeiture schemes, our jails privatized and used as a source of cheap labor for megacorporations, and our buying habits turned into suspicious behavior by a government readily inclined to view its citizens as terrorists.
We've been told that national security is more important than civil liberties, that the best way not to get raped by police is to "follow the law," that what a police officer says in court will be given preference over what video footage shows, that an upright posture and acne are sufficient reasons for a cop to suspect you of wrongdoing, that police can stop and search a driver based solely on an anonymous tip, and that police officers have every right to shoot first and ask questions later if they feel threatened.
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