What It Means To Live in an Authoritarian Police State

 David Codrea has a piece over at Ammoland that has done the work I intended to do, but just haven't had the time so far. The article is entitled Rise of the Moors Turns DHS's "Perfect Storm" into summer squall. Unlike Codrea, my first thought was not "these may be the droids we're looking for." A bunch of guys heading to Maine to train does not cause me concern. When I found that they were a group of black guys calling themselves "Rise of the Moors" I still thought, "well, so what?" After all, every citizen is entitled to keep and bear arms, and Massachusetts gun control laws are an infringement of the Constitution.

Now, I don't agree with Moors' ideas about history. As Codrea notes:

Forget that it was the Muslims who conquered North Africa forcing conversion on the natives. Forget that the Muslims conquered the Levant (including modern-day Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and much of Turkey). Then forget that the Muslim Moors conquered most of Spain. Now disregard that Arab slave-trading continued after the British and United States abolished it and that Africans were the sellers.

Good thing we live in a country where the law established by its Founders from their heritage pretty much leaves citizens free to believe whatever they want — even if it’s kooky or worse — as long as they don’t force it on anyone else – at least it’s supposed to. With the rise of “cancel culture” and the conflation and smears being flung at anyone who doesn’t reject traditional beliefs and embrace all-encompassing cultural terraforming, the future of that is no longer something to take for granted – especially with Merrick Garland joining the chorus and pointing the finger.

Which is the point. The "Moors" weren't causing any trouble, at least not yet. And like a lot of us, they may well have been training for self defense. And if the "authoritahs" can put these people into jail, they can put any of us in jail at any time for anything they desire. This is what it means to be living in a authoritarian police state. And it is not supposed to be this way.