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Many people find America unrecognizable under Joe Biden’s reign of terror. It seems as if the Democrats have weaponized every possible aspect of life; from the justice system to education, medicine, and beyond, all to retain power and crush the opposition.
Think about it: look what’s happening to the January 6th political prisoners, who’ve been treated like literal terrorists, and Douglass Mackey, who faces a 10-year prison sentence for sharing an anti-Hillary meme online. Then there are the political attacks against President Trump. We used to associate imprisoning political opponents with communist regimes like North Korea, but now, thanks to Biden, it’s happening in the USA as well. And don’t forget how the Biden administration took control of social media, weaponizing it under the guise of combating “disinformation.”
This regime is effectively censoring Americans and infringing upon First Amendment rights, establishing a tyrannical pattern that’s spreading even to small newspapers in rural America. One small town Kansas paper experienced this firsthand when local police raided them over an article they had written.
A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism for raiding a local newspaper’s office and the home of its owner and publisher, seizing computers and cellphones, and, in the publisher’s view, stressing his 98-year-old mother enough to cause her weekend death.
Several press freedom watchdogs condemned the Marion Police Department’s actions as a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution’s protection for a free press. The Marion County Record’s editor and publisher, Eric Meyer, worked with his staff Sunday to reconstruct stories, ads and other materials for its next edition Wednesday, even as he took time in the afternoon to provide a local funeral home with information about his mother, Joan, the paper’s co-owner.
A search warrant tied Friday morning raids, led by Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody, to a dispute between the newspaper and a local restaurant owner, Kari Newell. She is accusing the newspaper of invading her privacy and illegally accessing information about her and her driving record and suggested that the newspaper targeted her after she threw Meyer and a reporter out of restaurant during a political event.
While Meyer saw Newell’s complaints — which he said were untrue — as prompting the raids, he also believes the newspaper’s aggressive coverage of local politics and issues played a role. He said the newspaper was examining Cody’s past work with the Kansas City, Missouri, police as well.
“This is the type of stuff that, you know, that Vladimir Putin does, that Third World dictators do,” Meyer said during an interview in his office. “This is Gestapo tactics from World War II.”
Have you noticed an alarming increase in these seemingly unnecessary raids lately? A 70+ year-old, immobile Utah man was shot 37 times when the FBI raided his home for allegedly making threatening social media posts against Joe Biden. This man, who weighed over 300 pounds, couldn’t even walk without a cane. There’s a very disturbing pattern forming. The ABC News article continues:
The raids occurred in a town of about 1,900 people, nestled among rolling prairie hills, about 150 miles (241 kilometers) southwest of Kansas City, making the small weekly newspaper the latest to find itself in the headlines and possibly targeted for its reporting.
Last year in New Hampshire, the publisher of a weekly newspaper accused the state attorney general’s office of government overreach after she was arrested for allegedly publishing advertisements for local races without properly marking them as political advertising. In Las Vegas, former Democratic elected official Robert Telles is scheduled to face trial in November for allegedly fatally stabbing Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German after German wrote articles critical of Telles and his managerial conduct.
Meyer said that on Friday, one Record reporter suffered an injury to a finger when Cody wrested her cellphone out of her hand, according to the report. The newspaper’s surveillance video showed officers reading that reporter her rights while Cody watched, though she wasn’t arrested or detained. Newspaper employees were hustled out of the building while the search continued for more than 90 minutes, according to the footage.
Meanwhile, Meyer said, police simultaneously raided his home, seizing computers, his cellphone and the home’s internet router.
Right on cue, as you dig deeper into the story, you start to see the politics emerge.
“I fully believe that the intent was to do harm and merely tarnish my reputation, and I think if had it been left at that, I don’t think that it would have blown up as big as it was,” Newell said in a telephone interview.
Newell said she threw Meyer and the Record reporter out of the event for Republican U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner at the request of others who are upset with the “toxic” newspaper. On the town’s main street, one storefront included a handmade “Support Marion PD” sign.”
The police chief and other officials also attended and were acknowledged at the reception, and the Marion Police Department highlighted the event on its Facebook page.
LaTurner’s office did not immediately return phone messages left Sunday at his Washington and district offices seeking comment.
Newell said she believes the newspaper violated the law to get her personal information as it checked on the status of her driver’s license following a 2008 drunken driving conviction and other driving violations.
The newspaper countered that it received that information unsolicited, which it verified through public online records. It eventually decided not to run a story because it wasn’t sure the source who supplied it had obtained it legally. But the newspaper did run a story on the city council meeting, in which Newell herself confirmed she’d had a DUI conviction and that she had continued to drive even after her license was suspended.
What we’re witnessing in the USA right now is desperation from an unpopular, failing political party in its death throes. By making wildly unconstitutional power grabs, the left is transforming the United States into something resembling North Korea, all to maintain control. Prepare to see this pattern unfold more across the country as the regime sends a clear and threatening message to anyone who dares oppose them: we will crush you.
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