I’ve Lost Track Of The Time

MORRISVILLE – When Morrisville police officer Chris Gill handed him a ticket, Kent Kauffman coughed. Next thing Kauffman knew, Gill was charging him with assault on a government official. Gill contends Kauffman intentionally coughed on him three times. According to Gill’s report, Kauffman looked into the officer’s eyes before “hacking” in his face, Morrisville spokeswoman Stacie Galloway said Wednesday. Kauffman acknowledges that he coughed two or three times from the window of his Dodge minivan Tuesday but said it was toward Gill’s waist. “He says I coughed in his face,” Kauffman said. “But that would only work if he had a 4-foot-long face.” Kauffman said that Gill cuffed him and threw him into the side of the patrol car, and that he ended up on the ground. “It knocked the wind out of me,” he said. “He kept yelling at me to get up. I told him, ‘I can’t move, man, I’m sick.’ ” Cough And Be Arrested

I’ve lost track of all the ways to offend our masters. In the past week or two, I’ve seen several dozen stories just like this.

We’re constantly reminded by the uninitiated that we don’t live in a police state. I disagree. The evidence is everywhere if you only pay attention.

The ACLU has created the Surveillance Clock, their estimation of how close we are to a total police state.

The reality is we are fast approaching a genuine surveillance society in the United States – a dark future where our every move, our every transaction, our every communication is recorded, compiled, and stored away, ready to be examined and used against us by the authorities whenever they want. The ACLU has created this Surveillance Clock to symbolize just how close we are to a “midnight” of a genuine surveillance society. But it’s not too late – there is still time to save our privacy.

I think it’s much too mild and set to the wrong time, especially the recommendation “send messages to Congress”. Yeah, that’ll work…

It’s not just a few bad apples anymore, these thugs are crawling all over everything, everywhere. But lest I get myself in trouble, you decide for yourselves. Frankly, I wish the whole lot of them, CIA, NSA, FBI, ATF, federal and state, even the wanna-be’s would just stop “protecting me”.  We are far more at risk from our “protectors” then any other possible danger, even if you combined them all together.

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