Comments on: Is The United States Already A Police State?

By: donald laface

donald laface — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:44:05 +0000

It’s happening all over little by little ,under the heading of security,there’s an agenda here ,who’s behind it is difficult to determine,it’s not only heavily armed police in train stations,its all sorts of laws being put into effect ,but its for our protection we’re told ,much the way Germanys population was told,we’re at war w/terrorists and depending on who’s talking it covers a wide area, been to the airport lately?you on the no-fly list,and if so ,why? who put it there? I know people on the list ,they did get to fly but not until they were thoroughly searched ,esp. for the type of reading material they had,how about your local library?phone?internet?have a built-in gps tracker in your car?…WHY? on earth would you want one?you get lost often?….technology is just great in the hands of terrorists,our own on capital hill,……………we hung the wrong dictator!

By: satan

satan — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:40:09 +0000

the 322 will f**k [edited for profanity] the third world in the dirty places.
-”ex mortis est”

By: Ol

Ol — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:30:36 +0000

You just had to mention that you’ve got an iPhone, didn’t you ?

By: rooster

rooster — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:21:28 +0000

yeah we’re already there.

the mounting evidence is seeping in through the cracks of the protective wall of the constitution via the steady but sure corrosive tactics implementd by the most hienous administration since nixon.

yeah we’re already there.

By: Laffer

Laffer — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:39:38 +0000

LOL! silly americans! they have the most rules about privacy and what you can do with yourself and your personal posessions thinking it makes them safer. they put hundreds and thousands of criminals on death row…. how much good is coming from all of that?

many countries who have much less “control” over citizens and who mind their business don’t have the same types of problems as the USA. i blame john wayne

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:11:37 +0000

Hey I have said to any interested acquaintances for years that we live in a police state. I use the Socratic approach: “What characteristics in a society or societal measures would you need to observe to determine if you lived in a police state?” Unfortunately, I seldom get more than blank stares as few people possess reasoning skills. So I suggest, “How about the country with the largest percentage of its people in prison?” Or how about, “What country has built secret prisons all over its sovereign territory, ‘privatized’ them out to crony capitalists, and further built hundreds of secret prisons all over the world?” One could go on for a long time with such rhetorical questions — I think most of us know the answers.

By: Mobius

Mobius — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:01:55 +0000

In Israel, what you experienced is a daily fact of life. You can’t enter any store or restaurant without passing through a metal detector. You have security guards on the buses that stop you and ask you questions before you can board. There are cops on every street corner brandishing all sorts of weapons. There are even cops with machine guns wearing all black, driving around on motorcycles, who jump off and harass anyone suspicious (read, Arab) looking.

After a while, you just get used to it.

Americans are the only people on Earth who have managed to evade this level of police militancy. Welcome to what the rest of the world endures.

By: Charles Sheehan-Miles

Charles Sheehan-Miles — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:37:25 +0000

This is precisely the stuff I’ve been writing about.

Consider:

* An 18 year old was recently charged with felony wiretapping for… videotaping a traffic stop

* Congress, for the first time in history, recently passed a bill whcih allows the federal government to detain anyone, without judicial review, merely by calling them a terrorist

* Within 3 years the national ID cards will be in place. If you don’t have one, you won’t be able to open a bank account, get a job, get on a plane, or enter a public building.

You’re asking the right questions.

By: norman

norman — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:23:07 +0000

come on people were not becoming a police state .its the socialist neo left wingers who are bringing about the problems with stupid laws to tell you where,what,when,and how to live . multiculturism instead of secularismm, too many people want to be a victim and be a apart of the new nanney state,geeee me gggggge me cauase you know you dont have to work when you can live on welfare and the nanny state will take care of you cause you know they owe it to you . cause you know if you get caught breaking the law the nanny state might take you socialist dollors and give it to others. and you know i would be bushhitlers fault ..

By: Realist

Realist — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:38:20 +0000

The correct answer to the question is: Yes - and no.

Yes, because the laws as applied to those who fall afoul of the Cheney-Bush Cabal rival those of the Third Reich. No, because for the time being, there aren’t enough “authority personnel” to enforce those draconian laws hiding beneath the misleading sobriquet of “The USA PATRIOT Act”.

Hear the various governors across the nation lamenting that their citizens are suffering from the effects of the various natural disasters now taking place, because their National Guard units are off fighting for oil and aren’t available to search and rescue.

I hate to put it this way, but maybe that is a good thing where this topic is concerned. If all of the National Guard was in the States, they would be out in the streets imposing “democracy” (read: Law and Order) on all of us.