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In reply to the discussion: Can we please put the discussion, whether the US is a police-state, to rest? [View all]Rex
(65,616 posts)I thought it would happen when Dubya was in office, but it did not and has not happened under Obama either. Maybe one day it will, but the only way we can keep from going through that authoritarian doorway, is to bring back real oversight over these spy agencies and make sure there is transparency from top to bottom in every police organization throughout the country. Do away with the DEA and the DHS.
I believe the War on Drugs helps push us toward a new kind of police state with every day that passes. I believe judges that put people in for-profit prisons help enable this development of a new kind of police state - as well as when someone like a billionare...oh let's just say Bloomberg, comes out and declares he has his own private army...that too helps develop this image of the plutocracy owning the authoritarians in this country that are pushing the taxpayer through the doorway...kicking and screaming NO!