Double Edged Borders

The double-edged sword of border enforcement is being worked on the Federal grinding wheel, masterfully honed in what the government typically hopes is the obscure darkness of bureaucracy. The secret courts who follow no known rules of judicial proceeding are gearing up for the expulsion of American citizens. Black clad thugs are checking the batteries on their electro-shock torture devices and government checkpoints spread into the big cities. Fear and uncertainty grip the economy while the media spins so many lies that the people just regurgitate the latest talking points tirade. The rights supposedly “guaranteed” by the constitution are washing ashore like a million gallons of crude.

The borders are being militarized and expanded by the Department of Homeland Security, effectively allowing border checkpoints within one hundred miles of any border or coastline. The great many of Americans – roughly 2/3 of all Americans – live within these vast swathes of 4th amendment free zones, where the traditional rights elucidated in the constitution have no meaning. This is akin to what happens when an area is declared to be in a state of emergency upon the occurrence of such tragedies as Hurricane Katrina. Massive power is concentrated in agencies of fear via executive order. FEMA and the DHS, whose goal is to have limitless annual budget expansion, are always on the lookout for any incident that they can portray as making their respective bureaus essential to the continuity of government. Judging by the recent behavior of ICE – which is now a part of the DHS – and FEMA, one can easily see this malevolent machinery being turned inwards. These fed controlled free-fire zones are already under occupation, they have weakened civil liberties, warrantless checkpoints and armed goons who received grants for doing special FEMA anti-terrorism classes.

The economy is being propped up by an ever inflating, elastic currency. This dollar devaluation and general lack of faith in the governments ability to make responsible fiscal legislation is drying up one of the root causes of human mass migration across the north American land mass. Yet despite the decreased number of migrant humans digging, dashing and diving past the gendarmes of the imaginary line, the “illegal immigrant” rhetoric is kicking into high gear. Particular attention being paid to the southern border and the naturalized hispanics on the northern side of the imaginary line. The Arizona government is actively pursuing passive aggressive anti-hispanic legislation at every twist and turn, while Robert Rodriguez turns his race baiting faux-trailer Machete (remember Grindhouse?) into a full fledged movie. Within the recently released script for the movie, Rodriguez pits poor against poor just how the corporatist whores in the film industry do it best. Folks like Rodriguez receive massive tax benefits from state and municipal theft guilds and sometimes even get to borrow a helicopter from the Federal overlords if they sing in tune with the state. The relationship between hollywood and the US Military has been very well documented, so it should come as no surprise when hollywood attempts to balkanize the people. If they can get us to fight amongst each other, they can let the government step in as a savior.

It is not just the US/Mexico border that is being treated as another front in the war on humanity. The northern border has had its share of ridiculous incidents, where the anointed punitive priesthood has been hard at work defending us helpless citizens from belligerent Canadian science fiction writers. Not only is it completely ludicrous that the border of Canada has guards that are NOT dressed in moose costumes, they also beat and detained Dr Peter Watts for simply asking why he was being stopped. Apparently this author of dystopic futures didn’t realize until after his beating that he was crossing over into Prussianized Amerika. The downright asinine actions at the northern border do not really end there, It recently came to my attention that people who have committed misdemeanor crimes in the US are being targeted by secretive immigration courts that are revoking citizenship and sending folks off to Canada. Thats the short and sticky part of the Mike Burrows story, a man with a permanent resident visa, who is being deported because of a misdemeanor conviction from when he was 18.

Naturally it doesn’t even end with foreign born US citizens. The government has no problem pursuing extra judicial means to murder its naturalized citizenry. In what Salon writer Glenn Greenwald calls “unbelievably Orwellian and tyrannical” the current administration has expanded on the rhetoric of the previous jobholder, maintaining that it reserves the right (yes, they said “right”) to carry out assassinations on any US citizen, anywhere in the world. That little tidbit came from congressional testimony that was given by Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair.

Instead of breaking the law outright the feds are dancing around them with secret courts, extra judicial killings and black site detention centers. As McCain pushes for the Berlin Wall inspired border fence, the last pieces of the puzzle for total federal domination are falling into place.