A Police State atomsphere is fitting for the inauguration of an authoritarian president

Inaugural Inanity
Becky Akers - Lew Rockwell.com - Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009



Ten thousand National Guardsmen, 7,500 active-duty soldiers, 25,000 cops from “99 federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies.” A city “honeycombed” with “communication command centers” spying on supposedly free Americans with 5,265 surveillance cameras. And, as if we aren’t already up to our eyeballs in goons, an entire brigade of the US Army on call. The cost for this hyperbolic hysteria? Hundreds of millions at a time when many taxpayers can’t scrape together the next month’s mortgage. All for an inauguration that has attracted no “specific threats.”

“Critics” contend that this is overkill. Go figure.

The piranhas swarming the security food-chain beg to differ. After all, they aren’t squandering their own money [...]

CIVICS NEW Comment: Don't you wish you could throw a multi-million dollar party in your own honor, paid for by money that was confiscated by people at the point of a gun? Oh wait...no, good people would not want to do something like that, but what is considered moral and just for regular folks is subverted by the state, which operates according to an entirely different set of moral rules. The state is above God's law (or the "moral law" or "natural law" if you will). Or it claims to be, that is.