New Orleans: Harbinger of the Police State?

In New Orleans this past Sunday, a toddler died in the crossfire of an apparent gang shootout. (see here) Now at least one Louisiana lawmaker has issued a call for the National Guard to patrol the streets to suppress crime.

In 2005, military patrols confiscated guns from citizens, leaving them helpless against marauding gangs of looters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans seems to serve as a test case and precedent for martial law & the police state.

Let's recap a partial chain of events:

1. The national government has redefined terrorism to include pretty much anyone who opposes its policies (see here);
2. Federal authorities hold coordinated drills to impose martial law (see here);
3. ATF has admitted complicity in running guns into Mexico, and agency emails reveal that at least one objective was to create an excuse for stricter gun controls on American citizens (see here);
4. Civil governments at all levels have terrorized citizens just going about their business (see here and here);
5. The president now claims the authority to have any American assassinated anywhere in the world, if he alone determines that citizen is a terrorist (see here);
6. Congress has rubber-stamped the president's power to arrest and detain any citizen without due process (no trial, no charges, no warrant) for any length of time (see here)
7. FEMA has put the machinery in motion to activate its emergency detention camps (death camps? see here);
8. Now, crime in the streets may serve as an occasion to impose martial law on a U.S. city (see below).

Do you see a pattern here? Think Mitt Romney will save us?

Think again.