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Originally Posted by m1rr0r dash
i have to say, no we do not live in a police state. we are well on the way, but not quite there yet. ask me again after 2 terms of rumsfeld/wolfowitz in the white house... if can still find me.
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actually, the prospect of Hilary is kind of scaring me more than an impossible rummie/wolflowitz duo...
I just think it is important to realize that a police state in hi-tech 2007 USA will not be recognized by comparisons to earlier police states. It will have its own identity informed by the culture. It will not look like what the Spectacle tells you a police state looks like. You won't find monks dead in the jungle. They get rendered overseas. You won't see public executions. Car accidents just happen. They won't put you in jail. They just arrange for you to lose your job and housing. What! You smoked a cigarette in your apartment! EVICTED!!! Sir we had reports you were smoking cigarettes around children, thats why the SWAT Team just burst in here and shot your dog. You don't need jackboot thugs marching on the streets, you just show them endlessly on network TV.