{"id":1989727,"date":"2023-08-03T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-state-tactics-are-costing-america-the-global-moral-high-ground\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T13:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T17:23:17","slug":"police-state-tactics-are-costing-america-the-global-moral-high-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-state-tactics-are-costing-america-the-global-moral-high-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Police-state tactics are undermining America&#8217;s global moral standing."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolice-state-tactics-are-costing-america-the-global-moral-high-ground%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1989727&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n    <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>The U.S. Government&#8217;s Assault on Civil Liberties<\/h2>\n<p>The Justice Department&#8217;s most recent\u2063 indictment of former President Donald Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-state-tactics-are-costing-america-the-global-moral-high-ground\/\" title=\"Police-state tactics are undermining America's global moral standing.\">sparked widespread\u2062 outcry<\/a>. The agency&#8217;s\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-ducks-emergency-appeal-in-tennessee-abortion-case\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Ducks Emergency Appeal in Tennessee Abortion Case\">ongoing legal battle<\/a> against Trump not only interfered in past \u200delections \u200dbut also threatens to interfere in\u200d the next one. These actions are just a few examples of the U.S. government&#8217;s war on Americans&#8217; civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, federal officials have colluded with Big Tech platforms to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fcc-commissioner-blasts-democrat-complaint-against-fox-news-affiliate-fcc-is-not-dncs-speech-police\/\" title=\"FCC Commissioner Blasts Democrat Complaint Against Fox News Affiliate: FCC Is Not \u2018DNC\u2019s Speech Police\u2019\">censor free speech<\/a>,\u2062 targeted pro-lifers, parents, and Catholics, and used Covid-19 as an excuse to impose unprecedented restrictions on American freedoms. \u2062The irony is that U.S.\u200d officials often criticize other countries\u2064 for engaging in similar\u200c behaviors.<\/p>\n<h3>A \u200cRisk\u200c to America&#8217;s International Reputation<\/h3>\n<p>If the U.S. continues to embrace these \u2064police-state tactics, \u2063it risks damaging its\u200c international reputation. \u200cHow can we expect other countries to take our concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/saudi-court-jails-womens-rights-activist-posing-challenge-for-biden\/\" title=\"Saudi court jails women\u2019s rights activist, posing challenge for Biden\">human rights violations<\/a> seriously if our own government treats its citizens like \u2062those\u200b of banana republics?<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Communist Party officials have already \u200cused U.S. internal matters to gain the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-jr-tells-gop-to-get-tough-if-democrats-are-playing-hardball-then-we-got-to-play-hardball\/\" title=\"Trump Jr. Tells GOP To Get Tough: If Democrats Are \u2018Playing Hardball\u2019 Then \u2018We Got To Play Hardball\u2019\">moral high ground<\/a> during diplomatic exchanges. They have accused the U.S. of committing atrocities against its own people, citing the Black Lives Matter movement and the riots that followed George \u200dFloyd&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s crucial for U.S. officials to respond to these accusations and defend the principles that made America a shining city on a hill. \u2063Failure to do so not only undermines the \u200dAmerican republic but also damages\u2064 our \u2062credibility worldwide.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer\u2062 for The Federalist and a graduate\u200b of \u200dthe \u2064University of Mary Washington. He previously served as \u200ba \u200bstate content writer for\u2063 Convention of States Action and \u2063his work has been featured in\u200d numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, \u200band \u200dConservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent indictment of ex-President Donald Trump by the Justice Department has sparked outrage over the current president&#8217;s administration targeting his political opponent. This ongoing legal battle implies that federal officials have not only meddled in the last two elections but are currently interfering in them as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1989728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1989728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}