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THE UPDATE on the Homeland Security Gestapo

So, if you scroll down a couple posts, you'll see that a co-worker of mine was picked up on Friday afternoon under suspicion of being a threat to homeland security. Here is the next installment of the story so far.

On Friday the 'detectives' took Dave to Pontiac. The car they came in was a civilian vehicle with absolutely nothing to distinguish it as a police vehicle. Civilan plates, no red/blue flashers in the grill or rear window, and no in-dash radio, just a handheld. They wouldn't let him take his wallet (or shoelaces, or hat, or cell phone, or keys) with him, but once he got there he was told that if he paid $200 he could leave right away. Obviously, he didn't have the money on him, so he couldn't. At first, he was told that he wouldn't need to bother because most cases get thrown out at the arraignment, but his didn't. When his mother arrived, it took her several hours to find out what was going on with him. She deposited $200 in his inmate account, and they gave her no receipt, nor did they allow Dave to use the money to bail himself out. An hour and a half later, he called Kelly and told her she could come bail him out for $200. Why such a low amount for bail? Doesn't that seem odd? Something as trivial as a DUI will cost you over $400 in bail. I would think that a threat to homeland security would cost much more.

When Kelly showed up to bail him out, she was given a slip with a number on it and told that Dave would have to call it Monday morning to find out when to show up for his trial. The slip listed the name of the presiding judge, and where it said 'offense', it was blank. He was never told what he was being charged with or why he was being held. Soon he'll go back to the courthouse, and he will be on trial, and will not know what for until he gets there. I wonder where they'll send him...maybe Siberia, or an internment camp, or maybe Van Diemen's Land. I suppose the most likely would be Camp X-Ray, but that would be the absolute worst, because that would mean that my predictions from Friday of him losing his rights and being labeled as an enemy combatant would be true. No safety net via the Geneva Convention or basic rights from the Constitution.

Obviously, I don't believe that he'll be 'sent away', nor do I think that he deserves to. Obviously, no one involved (besides maybe the police) really knows what is going on, or what happened. But I still think that this is scary. Thanks to the Patriot Act, he has been denied some of the most basic rights. I can't say that he was held for no reason, because I don't know why he was being held. Neither can he, and I think that's fucked up. All of this scares me. I seriously feel like we're slowly being assimilated into a culture similar to that of "1984" or "Anthem," post-apocalyptic dystopias where freedom is a four letter word. Soon, Homeland Security will take over as the only police force in the country. Cities and states will no longer govern themselves, individuality will be lost in the name of preserving 'freedom', i.e. the freedom to change the Constitution to benefit big business and the oil industry.