General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Can we please put the discussion, whether the US is a police-state, to rest? [View all]Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)The states, exercising the general police power, have created Stalin-styled police and law enforcement agencies. They routinely engage in unlawful surveillance and police brutality. The state judiciary has bought into the new "world order" and routinely just give them a slap on the wrist or organize a parade to promote their brutality.
The federal government engages in routine extradition and extraordinary rendition. I have no doubt this has continued under Obama. The federal government sucks up everything they can with respect to your private communications including telephone calls, e-mails, browsing history, tweets, text messages and probably every letter you have ever sent in the mail.
Further they engage in systematic brutality against anyone who would dare challenge their authority. They tortured Manning. They would double-down on torture on Snowden. They hate whistleblowers. Despite any attempts in Congress to rein them in they would continue their illegal, immoral and unconstitutional attacks on the American people. They are a government unto themselves. They are not unlike the computer in 2001 A Space Odyssey where the computer will do everything in self-defense. The people who work at the NSA are sociopaths that see themselves as the saviors of the universe.