A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State (37 page)

10. Be selfless and sacrificial
. Freedom is not free–there is always a price to be paid and a sacrifice to be made. If any movement is to be truly successful, it must be manned by individuals who seek a greater good and do not waver from their purposes.

11. Remain optimistic, and keep hope alive
. Although our rights are increasingly coming under attack, we still have certain freedoms. We can still fight back. We have the right to dissent, to protest, and even to vigorously criticize or oppose the government and its laws.
⁶⁶⁸

You Are the Change

The key to making a difference is in understanding that the first step begins with you. As Mahatma Gandhi said, "We need to be the change we wish to see in the world."
⁶⁶⁹

Change, then, will only come from a citizenry willing to step beyond the propaganda of fear and sacrifice themselves for freedom. Of course, government agents armed to the teeth will be there to chill and/or suppress the freedom fighters. But let us stand with those courageous enough to place themselves on the front lines for freedom.

As Evey recognizes in
V for Vendetta
, the freedom fighter is "all of us." Otherwise, there is little or no hope left for us.

Acknowledgments

No one walks alone. Every step of the way, someone is there to help, and without such help from others, little would be accomplished.

Such was the assistance I received in researching and writing this book. First and foremost, I wish to thank my wife, Nisha, for her support, ideas, and editing, and Christopher Combs for creating the cover art and illustrations. Michael Khavari's research was invaluable, as was Carrick Owlett's assistance in procuring the images. Peggy Kelly, Lina Ragep, Ellie Miller, and Philip Timmerman were gracious about pitching in during the final stages of proofing. The following individuals, in addition to many others, also assisted with the mountains of research necessary for a book of this scope: Aaron Tao, Zachary Waksman, Jennifer Wilson, Melinda Ashe, Ricky Knicely Jinyang Guo, Daniel Xu, Chelsea German, Brendan O'Connor, Austin Raynor, Allison Harnack, Ayushi Patidar, Dynne Sung, Hyun-Woo Shin, Trenton D. Boaldin, Than Cutler, and Charly Gilliam. Special thanks to Frank DeMarco and Bill Gladstone.

Finally, I would like to thank that tireless civil libertarian Nat Hentoff for the example he has established for those of us who have followed in his footsteps. Without voices like Nat's, freedom would simply be a word without content.

Notes

Part One: Is This America?

1
Bertram Gross,
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
(South End Press,1980)

C H A P T E R ONE

2
Abraham Lincoln, as restated from "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions: Address before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois" (Jan. 27,1838).

3
Associated Press, "Pregnant woman pepper sprayed at Occupy Seattle,"
CBS News
(Nov. 16, 2011),
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57325688/pregnant-woman-pepper-sprayed-at-occupy-seattle/
.

4
David Edwards, "Pregnant Seattle protester miscarries after being kicked, pepper sprayed,"
The Raw Story
(Nov. 22,2011),
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/ll/22/pregnant-seattle-protester-miscarries-after-being-kicked-pepper-sprayed/?utm_source=Raw+Story+Daily
+Update&utm_campaign=bblb72025b-l1__22_lll__22_2011&utm_medium=email.

5
Malia Wollan, "Police Fire Tear Gas at Occupy Protesters in Oakland,"
New York Times
(Oct. 26,2011),
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/police-said-to-fire-tear-gas-at-protesters-in-oakland-calif/
.

6
Bertram Gross,
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
(South End Press, 1980)

7
As quoted in
Bertram Gross,
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
(South End Press, 1980)

8
Chris Floyd, "Weather Report: The Hard Chill Begins to Bite,"
Moscow Times
(Nov.9,2001),
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=433&Ite
mid=5.

9
Hermann Goering as
quoted in
Gustave Gilbert,
Nuremberg Diary
(Da Capo Press, 1995)

10
Hannah Arendt,
The Origins of Totalitarianism
(Harcourt, 1968)

11
"NYPD Stop-And-Frisks Increased 14 Percent In 2011; 87 Percent Of Those Stopped Black Or Hispanic,"
Huffington Post
(Feb. 14, 2012),
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/
nypd-stop-and-frisks-increased-201__n_1277027.html.

12
"Councilman: NYPD's Stop And Frisk Rationalization Is 'Bullsh*t,'"
Gothamist
(Feb. 14, 2012),
http://gothamist.com/2012/02/14/stop-and-frisk.php
.

13
Herman Schwartz, "How the Supreme Court Came to Embrace Strip Searches for Trivial Offenses,"
The Nation
(Aug. 16, 2012),
http://www.thenation.com/article/169419/how-supreme-court-came-embrace-strip-searches-trivial-offenses#
.

14
"Female US cop caught on tape giving two women body cavity search during routine traffic stop ... and 'using the SAME gloves on both,'"
Daily Mail
(Dec. 18, 2012), http://
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250218/Angel-Ashley-Dobbs-suing-Texas-troopers-shocking-BODY-CAVITY-search-caught-tape.html#ixzz2HxDDYDoh
.

15
Kevin Krause, "Texas trooper being sued in Irving body cavity search case has been suspended,"
The Dallas Morning News
(Dec. 19, 2012),
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2012/12/irving-women-sue-state-troopers-in-federal-court-alleging-roadside-body-cavity-searches.html/.

16
Chris Sweeney, "Cops Strip Search Mom, "Forcibly" Pull Tampon Out of Her for Maybe Rolling Through Stop Sign,"
Broward Palm Beach NewTimes
(Aug. 9, 2012),
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2012/08/cops_strip_search_mom_pull_tam.php
.

17
Gina Barton and John Diedrich, "4 Milwaukee police officers charged in strip-search case,"
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
(Oct. 9, 2012),
http://www.jsonline.com/
news/crime/criminal-charges-against-police-in-strip-search-case-expected-today-gf5cb94-173312411.html.

18
Henry K. Lee, "Strip searches cost Oakland $4.6 million,"
SF Gate
(Nov. 15, 2012), http://
www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Strip-searches-cost-Oakland-4-6-million-4035103.php
.

19
David Cohen, "Cops to draw blood at N. Shore checkpoint tonight,"
WWL
(Dec. 13, 2012),
http://www.wwl.com/Cops-to-draw-blood-at-N-Shore-checkpoint-tonight/15025595
.

20
"NYPD, Feds Testing Gun-Scanning Technology, But Civil Liberties Groups Up In Arms,"
CBS New York
(Jan. 17, 2012),
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/01/17/nypd-testing-gun-scanning-technology/
.

21
Al Baker, "Police Working on Technology to Detect Concealed Guns,"
New York Times
(Jan. 17, 2012),
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/police-working-on-technology-to-detect-concealed-guns/
.

22
Michael Grabell, "Drive-by X-rays: Security screeners expanding radiation use,"
Tucson Sentinel
(Feb. 1, 2012),
http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020112_ xrays/drive-by-x-rays-security-screeners-expanding-radiation-use/
.

23
Matthew Kauffman, "Police Keeping Data From License Plate Scans; ACLU Files Privacy Protest,"
Hartford Courant
(Feb. 21, 2012),
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/
hc-aclu-license-plate-scans-0222-20120221,0,5035715.story.

24
Chris North, "Police scanners allow for remote fingerprint identification,"
Reporter Newspapers
(Feb. 23, 2012),
http://www.reporternewspapers.net/2012/02/23/police-scanners-allow-for-remote-fingerprint-identification/
.

C H A P T E R TWO

25
Jon Wiener,
Come Together: John Lennon in His Time
(University of Illinois Press, 1990)

26
Thomas Paine,
Common Sense
(1776),
http://www.bartleby.eom/133/3.html
.

27
John Adams,
Novanglus Essays
, No. 7,
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Novanglus_Essays/
No._7.

28
Robert O'Harrow,
No Place to Hide
(Free Press, 2006), p. 4 of "Introduction."

29
Julia Scheeres, "Librarians Split on Sharing Info,"
Wired
(Jan. 16, 2003),
http://www.wired
. com/politics/security/news/2003/01/57256.

30
"USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005."

31
Shannyn Moore, "Senate proves we should fear ourselves,"
Anchorage Daily News
(Dec. 2, 2011),
http://www.adn.com/2011/12/02/2201260/senate-proves-we-should-fear-ourselves.html
.

32
Conor Friedersdorf, "Ceding Liberty to Terror: Senate Votes Against Due-Process Rights,"
The Atlantic
(Dec. 2, 2011),
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/12/ceding-liberty-to-terror-senate-votes-against-due-process-rights/249388/
.

33
Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, and a few other journalists and activists sued President Obama over the provision of the NDAA allowing for the indefinite detention of American citizens.
See
Michael McAuliff, "Indefinite Detention Ban Stayed By Appeals Judge In NDAA Case,"
The Huffington Post
(Sept. 18, 2012),
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/18/indefinite-detention-ban-_n_1893652.html
.

34
Ashley Portero, "'Enemy Expatriation Act' Could Compound NDAA Threat to Citizen Rights,"
International Business Times
(Jan. 24, 2012),
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles286940/20120124/enemy-expatriation-act-bypass-citizen-protections-ndaa.htm
.

35
Tangerine Bolen, "What makes our NDAA lawsuit a struggle to save the US constitution,"
The Guardian
(Aug. 10, 2012),
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/10/
ndaa-lawsuit-struggle-us-constitution.

36
Thomas McAdam, "Sen. Rand Paul fights against martial law legislation," Louisville.com (Nov. 30, 2011),
http://www.louisville.com/content/sen-rand-paul-fights-against-martial-law-legislation-arena
.

37
Radley Balko, "Paramilitary police don't make us safer,"
Reason Reader
(Summer 2010), p. 6,
http://reason.org/files/reasonreader-cutorbecut.pdf

38
William Pitt's speech in the House of Lords
according to
Henry Peter Brougham,
Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III
, Vol. 1 (1839)

39
Barnes v. State of Indiana
, 946 N.E.2d 572 (Ind. 2011),
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/
State-and-regional/indiana/pdf_c82cdbb8-7ea0-5c55-bb00-2aa247134bbb.html.

40
Kentucky v. King
, 131S. Ct. 1849 (2011).

41
Editorial, "Standing Up to Unwarranted Police Power,"
New York Times
(May 24, 2011),
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/opinion/25wed2.html
.

42
Reichle v. Howards
, 132 S. Ct. 2088 (U.S. 2012),
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/
llpdf/ll-262.pdf.

43
Mattos v. Agarano
, 661 F.3d 433 (9th Cir. 2011).

44
Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington
, 566 U.S. (2012),