By Gary D. Barnett
GaryDBarnett.com
February 10, 2026
"A police state is a country run by criminals"
~ Robert Harris
If it was not so serious, it would be almost laughable; that is the inversion of 'thought' among the competing factions called red or blue, republican or democrat, left or right. There is a reason to have two major political parties, or even any political parties, as this type of ruling structure guarantees mass division and hate; the two things necessary so that the criminal State thugs in politics can tame and control the entire population. There has never been a time where this is more obvious than today.
The evil red side supposedly is more inclined toward capitalism, gun 'rights,' war, and anti-civil rights, but of course that is all a farce. The blue side is supposedly for civil rights, welfare, gun confiscation, and anti-war, but that is also all a farce. Both sides accept most anything, so long as their political 'god' is in power. This time around, the evil red team has built a massive police state, mass surveillance, extreme censorship, and war, while the evil blue team has gone along with some things, shunned others, created protest and riots, but reversed on core positions. The gun question in particular has now inverted, as Trump has said no guns, no guns on the street, while the left is now for guns due to the ICE martial law and brutality. You can't make this up.
Both the right and left love war so long as their guy's in power, they both want dependency on government, they both desire money, power and control, they both cheer on censorship, mass surveillance, and full digitization. They both supported the fake 'covid' lockdowns and mass murder of the elderly, they both, especially Trump, wanted poisonous lethal injections for all, they both want to spend and advance trillions in debt, all while the people starve. So what is the real difference ? There is none.
But now we are at a crossroads, because heinous police-state tactics; tracking, tracing, full surveillance, censorship, warrantless searches and seizures, masked Gestapo-type cretins on the streets, martial law, property confiscation, elimination of due process, and State IDs are accepted by both when in power, but met with feigned 'resistance' when out of power. Contradictory, hypocritical; of course it is, but that is the way of politicians and all those who accept and support them.
I prefaced my main point because none of this could be happening unless both political parties, all those who support them, and a majority of others were on board and accepting of this totalitarian insanity. The United States is now a tyrannical sadistic police state, and these ICE goons are the face of this system.
According to my research, all U.S. states now have ICE agents present. Enforcement of what is falsely called the immigration crisis, is being actively pursued nationwide. States with dedicated, stand-alone ICE offices are in Florida, Arizona, and New Jersey, but 'enforcement' and removal offices regionally number twenty five. Besides these Gestapo-type ICE operations, other government criminal organizations in 'Homeland Security and the Office of Partnership and Engagement, are located throughout the U.S., including Minnesota, where horrendous federal activity has been rampant as of late. They are all working together to expand this police state madness.
Most in this country have no idea where this is headed, and expect to be "back to normal" as soon as all the immigrants are rounded up, beaten, caged, tortured, murdered or deported. This is just the beginning of an ongoing, all-inclusive police-state environment that is meant to be a permanent fixture throughout America. This is not merely a short-term operation meant to address an actual 'emergency' as defined by the State, it is not only a test, as was the 'covid' scam to gauge compliance in the face of depopulation, it is the mass buildup of heavily-armed police and military in the streets of your towns and cities, all in order to normalize the constant martial law presence of a government enforcement regime nationwide.
Considering the indifferent and docile American citizens, this takeover looks to be an easy task for the few fascist oligarchical monsters who run this country. They can only achieve this end by using their middlemen in government, their pawns, and their enforcers, to subdue, psychologically and physically, most all the majority of the masses. The horde of commoners have been programmed to accept and obey their political masters, instead of any reliance on self, this due to government schooling indoctrination centers, gross propaganda, and insane nationalistic allegiance; this the mainstay of what was once a people who at least thought they wanted real freedom. Today, there is hardly a pretense of such attitudes concerning liberty, as the bulk of society has completely acquiesced to rule; fully conforming to what can only be described as a master/slave society. The Goal: 40th Anniver... Check Amazon for Pricing.
This evil ICE insanity, the horrid and open brutality now evident by these criminal creatures, all allowed by this pathetic and helpless population, most recently began in 2025, supposedly to clean up the nastiest place anywhere, Washington DC, a place filled to the brim with political scum. From there it expanded to Chicago and other cities, only to grow in less than a year to cover many parts of the U.S. Now they have a presence in every state, and are still expanding. How difficult is it to see what is happening ? From one or two cities to nationwide in such a short time; all with almost no real resistance. This is a literal takeover of your streets in towns and cities across the country. Do you not see the progression, and the drive to control not just so-called immigrants, as was never the intent, but the rest of you as well?
They (government and its masters) are taking away your identity, they are taking away your individual self, they are taking away your independence, and they are taking away your ability to think and act as a sovereign sentient being. They are taking over your finances, your biometrics, your DNA, your speech, your 'money,' and your travel and mobility. And they are doing this all while setting up martial law, and a concentrated, all-consuming police state to enforce all of the tyrannical measures forthcoming.
This is what you have allowed to happen, and you are but a moment away from being nothing more than a slave of the State. Stop them now, or go ahead and place shackles on your hands and feet, so at least the rest of us will know who are the willing and voluntary slaves.
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
~ George Orwell
Reprinted with permission from GaryDBarnett.com.