Why Don't We Just Wake Up And Realize We Live In A POLICE STATE?

We have the freaking NSA spying on us, why? Because they can and it is legal for them to do so. The CIA, not so much. But the NSA, oh hell apparently they have no boundaries on who or what or where they are allowed to spy.

Or what about the privatization of military power? The fact that mercs are used in Iraq for "security" lol, hell we all know they are over there doing everything that is against the Geneva convention because they aren't bound by any conventions. They just get paid to do what they are asked to do. BTW, is there a mercenary ethics course that they should have to take? Remedial ethics even?

So my questions remain, why do we allow this shit? Just because we can't do anything about it apparently through the legal system, why the hell don't we take our country back one freaking way or another.

Yes, Mr. NSA agent, go ahead and take this post down in your notebook. When you guys fly your black helicopters over my house to intimidate me, well I just not even be there :P

Okay part of this is tongue in cheek, part is not. Can you tell the difference?

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Right?

Way ahead of you.

to the English in 1776 a group of freedom fighters were bad, to I suppose most people today they were heroes and the good guys.

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If the teevee works we're happy.

like China and you will understand the difference. Are our rights being infringed? Yes. Do we live in a fascist police state. No, at least not currently. If we did, we wouldn't have places like DU

If you asked the average German if they thought they lived in a Police state in 1933, they would say no. It wouldn't appear such for a while...

I have a pretty good knowledge of poli sci. And this is still a pretty healthy democracy--has the constitution been abused.yes But there IS a strong two party system in this country--or sites like this wouldn't exist.

It was a very healthy Democracy. Sure there was corruption, there's corruption now.

I never said we are in a fascist police state. I just said we're on that road, hopefully not too late to change.

Same with Chile under Allende and Republican Spain.

to me is evidence that we are well on our way to a police state. The supreme court has been stacked with justices who don't believe in the right to privacy.

Fascism is healthy in America. I think that we aren't in a fascist state only because we are in a period of enlightenment. If McCain wins, we will be out of that brief interlude and well on our way to a state of religio-fascism where the bible will be heralded as the "truth" for all to obey.

But if you place a frog into a pot of lukewarm water and slowly turn up the heat, it will boil to death.

(not true but it illustrates the principle.)