Police State

- (speaking in a foreign language).

- (speaking in a foreign language).

- (speaking in a foreign language).

FBI!

- On your knees! - Who are you guys?

FBI!

What are you doing in my house?

What are you doing?

Put your hands on the wall!

Come on, let's go.

No!

What did he do!

Good job.

Well, okay

I just need your signature

and we'll be outta your way.

You guys have a good day

- Freedom itself is transforming the globe.

- After the collapse of the Soviet Union,

it seemed there was an inevitable march

toward freedom worldwide.

Planet freedom.

Citizens would no longer have to fear their government.

But now things have changed.

Alright there he is.

Take some shots.

Okay, effing G, you know what we're doing here?

We're establishing POL, pattern of life.

When he comes, when he goes, what door he comes out of,

what time he comes to work, what time he goes home.

Who he's meeting.

First thing he does in the morning.

Everybody's got dirt. Just a matter of finding it.

- I wanted to team up with someone who's been on the inside.

Dan Bongino is a former NYPD officer

Dan Bongino is a former NYPD officer

and Secret Service agent

and now a successful political commentator.

You know. Dan, I'm really glad we're getting together,

because it seems to me like

this is not the America that you grew up in.

It's not the America that I came to

as a teenager in the late 1970s.

- For the first time in my life, I'm saying to myself,

"Am I gonna get a knock at the door?"

- FBI warrant. Come to the door now!

So is this the America I grew up in?

Hell no it isn't. It's not even close.

It may be the Russia other people grew up in,

but not my America

We're the free world.

Then you have the unfree world

and that's North Korea that's East Germany,

that's the Soviet Union, that's China.

And why are we the free world?

Because we have free speech,

and we have equal lights under the law, and they don't

But now suddenly all those distinctions

seem to be getting blurred

- We have FBI folks spying on President Trump,

and we find out intelligence officials

may have been looking in and using databases

to spy on other Americans.

I mean. (laughs) you start to ask yourself

is this freedom just some kind of illusion?

- When I think of police states around the world,

there are so many features

that seem now to be part of American life.

Censorship, for example, political targeting,

going after the leader of an opposition party.

There are some elements that we don't see here yet.

Typically police states are established

by some revolutionary overthrow of the government.

Police states typically have a Berlin Wall.

They prevent you from leaving

How far down the road are we?

We're in the slow death version,

and is the must dangerous kind

They just get used to the evaporating civil liberties.

Oh, this is normal being banned in the new public sphere

There are gonna be ordinary Americans

who are not that political,

and the FBI hasn't banged on their door

In their America there is no threat

There is no police state.

We have to investigate

how far down this road we've come.

I don't think we have to investigate,

I think we're obligated to.

- ls America becoming a police state?

To find out. I spoke with politicians and journalists.

Government told American citizens

they couldn't go to church on Sunday in America.

But the real scary thing is what we saw

come out of the Richmond office of the FBI.

It's if you're a pro-life, pro-family Catholic.

They define you as radical.

Republicans are prosecuted for crimes

that Democrats are let go for.

- We don't have the overt tanks and machinery and weaponry

going down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in the life-

- The way the Soviets do. - Right exactly.

That was a more overt style police state

But that doesn't mean we don't have the onset

of one here in America now.

- I think sometimes people have the imagery

that people are gonna be goosestepping down the street

wearing uniforms with swastikas.

No. it's usually the faceless bureaucrat

who's working in the basement somewhere

who is carrying out the larger purposes

that have been established by powerful leaders.

Dozens of FBI armed agents

with bullhorns outside of your home

to terrorize your neighborhood, as well as terrorize you.

Shock you out of sleep,

drag you out of your house half-clothed,

refuse to give you a warrant, ransack your house,

take you to the FBI field office where you're interrogated

and don't even have a chance to access an attorney.

I met with whistleblowers

from the various police agencies of the government.

We don't need to have a crime.

What we need is a person to look at

And then we go find out what crime you did.

- A domestic intelligence service serves one master,

the government that pays them

It does not serve the American people.

- And heard from ordinary Americans

who have experienced the long arm of the federal government.

- We are living in very difficult, very perilous times.

This is a police state now. They have full authority.

They've weaponized the DOJ over and over and over again

How many more times do they have to do it

before you recognize you're next on the chopping block?

If we're such a police state,

how do you explain the rampant riots

that were allowed to occur

under the banner of Black Lives Matter?

How do you explain the dilapidated state

of utter criminality in San Francisco,

New York, Philadelphia, and all of our other cities?

How is that consistent with us being a police state?

It's very simple.

The regime allows pure anarchy,

zero consequences for its client populations,

and the regime visits extreme tyranny

on those it deems to be political enemies,

namely law-abiding conservatives.

Clearly, many conservatives

believe America is becoming a police state.

I wanted to get the perspective of someone

who's actually lived in a totalitarian police state.

Yeonmi Park is a refugee from North Korea.

So I was born in North Korea in 1993.

In a way I was abducted at birth by the state.

You are a slave, the the state owns you,

and they control you in every aspect

So even I'm a North Korean,

I'm not allowed to travel inside North Korea,

not to mention travel abroad.

And they don't even tell us

how many countries exist in the world.

I've never seen map of the world.

We don't even know the word freedom.

So there's a single individual

who represents the state.

He is a beyond God.

He is the nation, and he is the only reason

why we exist, to serve him,

and the crime of not respecting him.

His picture on the newspaper you rip that by mistake,

that's how you sent to prison camp in North Korea

and you get executed.

So by the time when I was 15 years old,

we met missionaries from South Korea

They were risking their lives to rescue us.

So after five years in South Korea,

So after five years in South Korea,

I came to America in 2015.

You come to America,

you are enrolled at Columbia University,

and you ran into some things you didn't expect.

- I still vividly remember my professor saying

that all the problems that we have in the world

is because of greedy capitalism and because of white men.

They say math is racist.

Math was created by white men to control minority.