Budget Watch Nevada

You may remember a few years back that during the “Axe the Tax” ballot initiative signature gatherers were harassed by the police and employees of “public” places like the post office and UNLV. The pinheads at UNLV, 85% of whose salaries are paid by taxpayers, had the audacity to say that there was a specified, limited “free speech zone” on campus. Huh? That is unbelievable! (Sidebar: the “free speech zone” was NOT IN ANY CLASSROOM.) One of the brave signature gatherers, a sweet lady up in the Reno area, was actually arrested for peaceably gathering signatures in plain celebration of her First Amendment right to “petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

This sort of thing happens all the time. This past week in New Hampshire, a couple sweet ladies were arrested for . . . holding up signs at the IRS building. You can see the story on a short and poignant YouTube video here.

The funniest – and saddest — part of the video was when a cop told the cameraman to stop filming in the (IRS office) corridors. When the cameraman incredulously asked, “that means there’s no freedom of the press inside this building?,” the cop shouted back, “not inside this building.”

With all the thugs, murderers, burglars, and frauds out there, aren’t you glad that your “peace officers” and judicial system are spending time and money incarcerating honest citizens who are quietly protesting the heavy hand of government?

People who support agents of government, and those who do nothing but sit idly by while watching them wrest more power from the people, are complicit in this authoritarian police state metastasizing before us. The government wants and demands blind obedience from its citizens, whether you are law-abiding or not! They use fear as their only motivator. And they use it indiscriminately.