Reply #39: Yes we have sunk into tyranny in the past as well.

[Warren Stupidity]

However at no time in our history has the state had as much power over individual citizens on such a scale as it does today, and they are just getting started with their 24/7 total surveillence state.

By the way, the lynching statistics indicate that documented events numbered on average 55 per year (1882 - 1968) and that the largest 'mass lynching' was the murder of 11 Italian immigrants in New Orleans in 1892. The state is executing 400 people per year these days. But that is not lynching so it doesn't count. Our prisons are stuffed with people, mostly black men, mostly for economic crimes, at an incarceration rate unparalleled in our history, but never mind that either.

"I. Introduction
The Justice Department recently released data showing that the number of prisoners in America rose to 1.8 million last year, the highest level ever, and the second largest prison population in the world. Using the most recent Justice Department data, the Justice Policy Institute found that last year two-thirds of those 1.8 million were incarcerated for nonviolent offenses, representing the first time in American history that more than one million (1,185,458) people were confined for crimes involving no violence."

http://www.cjcj.org/pubs/one_million/onemillionexec.html