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In reply to the discussion: If you don't think we're already living in a police state, consider this. [View all]damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)140. "Almost 12 million people cycle through local jails each year"
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"There are almost 15,000 children behind bars whose most serious offense wasnt a crime."
http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie.html
"There are almost 15,000 children behind bars whose most serious offense wasnt a crime."
http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie.html
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If you don't think we're already living in a police state, consider this. [View all]
99th_Monkey
Feb 2015
OP
14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism (http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm)
blkmusclmachine
Feb 2015
#1
It is 14 out of 14, the first step is to define realized what religion is being intertwined
happyslug
Feb 2015
#160
But to this degree and such highly sophisticated organization against democracy for ALL?
lexington filly
Feb 2015
#79
At some point, the pendulum will begin to swing away from this practice toward equality for all.
Dont call me Shirley
Feb 2015
#3
I consider it the most sane of woowoo notion that at some point a critical mass of sanity triggers
Dont call me Shirley
Feb 2015
#13
i hope that eventually a switch will be thrown in the unconscious mind of everyone.
TimeToEvolve
Feb 2015
#60
Yes and I have been in the blackness of eternal night, and I made it through.
Dont call me Shirley
Feb 2015
#24
The phrase actually comes from Hermeticism - A swing to the right is a swing to the left
Hestia
Feb 2015
#138
Interesting, but the pendulum I referred to is meant to cut victims in half
HereSince1628
Feb 2015
#162
Yup! When I saw the beatdown of Occupy and the neo-military response to Furgoson
OffWithTheirHeads
Feb 2015
#14
Brightened my day! We still got Obama, the White House, all the good States, and all the good ideas.
Fred Sanders
Feb 2015
#30
oh pleeeez...you insult people being persecuted around the world by using this term for the USA.
uhnope
Feb 2015
#26
When younger, I would NEVER have believed the USA could EVER sink to 46th in press freedom
Faryn Balyncd
Feb 2015
#54
+10000 And..The United States has the largest prison population in the world,
woo me with science
Feb 2015
#100
"I mean some people who claim to be poor even have microwave ovens and TVs..." Fox News
whereisjustice
Feb 2015
#112
We lost this game a long time ago. The two minute warning was when we let the Supreme Court
world wide wally
Feb 2015
#40
I think your first paragraph could use more detail because as I read about the last 40 years being
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2015
#46
yes. The INCREASE in freedoms in the USA in last 40 years doesn't fit into the narrative
uhnope
Feb 2015
#52
I see. So there's a plan by the "The Oligarchs" to fool us by giving us some freedom
uhnope
Feb 2015
#59
You demean the years of struggle against your straight culture that produced the progress in
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2015
#91
I think the fact that you feel you can characterize me with impunity suggests a lack of equity in
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2015
#141
What specifically leads you to believe that gay rights was a "carrot" developed by oligarchs?
LanternWaste
Feb 2015
#144
and how does this supposed Police State USA compare to actual police states in...
uhnope
Feb 2015
#55
Asking questions in lieu of presenting an actual counter argument seems to indicate
rhett o rick
Feb 2015
#145
police reform is of the utmost importance IMO but reform is stalled by yahoos yelling "police state"
uhnope
Feb 2015
#147
OK, you may be conflating a number of issues, hyperbalizing things and calling up a mythical past.
pinto
Feb 2015
#68
The answer is two fold. "Can it be a true police state whil citizenry are armed?"
rhett o rick
Feb 2015
#146
Excellent post, the rich are funding a police state to stifle dissent as they steal
whereisjustice
Feb 2015
#115
The fact this post stays up, and DU actually exists, speaks against the idea of a police state.
Drunken Irishman
Feb 2015
#118
Armed officers appearing at people's residences over building code enforcement
aint_no_life_nowhere
Feb 2015
#119
A slowly boiled frog doesn't get it until he's dead, at which point, he's oblivious.
merrily
Feb 2015
#142
You might want to re-think your "investigative journalists" with the benefit of hindsight
Blue_Tires
Jan 2018
#169