The Signs of a Growing Tyranny

Those who forget history, are doomed to be ground under the bootheel of the police state. Hallmarks of Tyranny in an Evolving Social Democracy | RealClearHistory

As any student of history knows, the loss of individual freedom concomitant with government repression features prominently in the inception and development of totalitarian states. These features reoccur: First is the centralization and empowerment of a national police force with a vast network of surveillance and informants to spy on the suspected population. Second is the issuing of national identification cards to keep tabs on the whereabouts of all citizens. Third is control of education, which is necessary for the indoctrination of the young and the neutralization of moral instruction, which is normally inculcated by the family and churches.

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Thus, gun control along with loss of liberty and increasing repression necessarily and prominently features in the unfolding, authoritarian designs of a burgeoning police state. For the total empowerment of national police forces—which the American Founders called “standing armies,” operating with vast surveillance capabilities and networks of informants to spy on the population (not foreign enemies)—draconian gun control measures become a necessity.

RTWT. (Hat tip to Jews Can Shoot.)