The US police state, the "best" in the world

[Zorra]

110. No. Generally, nobody wants to be arrested. It is an emotionally, physically, and often financially

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draining process. Honestly, no offense, because this is a widespread phenomenon, but many people who have not been arrested and gone through the processes of the legal system have what is, from my POV, a dangerous naivete about the overall fairness and workings of the system. It's not fun for non-criminals to be arrested, processed, and caged. It's almost always a traumatic experience. TV does not give folks the real big picture.

Generally, protesters get arrested because we see a desperate need for change and take part in actions intended to expose injustices in order to make changes necessary to bring about an effective democratic process in which all citizens are treated as equal to one another. The 1% does not want justice and equality, so they have the police control us through overwhelming numbers and unwarranted violent aggression. Since we don't shoot back, we depend on decent people to take a stand on our, (and their) behalf. Unfortunately, either widespread unwarranted acts of police aggression committed against innocent people seems to have become acceptable to decent, freedom loving people, or maybe there just aren't that many people left in this country who really give a shit about things like democracy, liberty, justice, and equality.

This is definitely evidence of a police state, but may not be considered evidence of a police state by those who support the 1% status quo in all things, and who do not feel a need to address widespread injustices and inequalities, because they are fully content with being ruled by wealthy private interests in a pseudo-democratic police state.

Freedom cannot protect itself from the 1% through current democratic processes. Those of us who understand this know that we need to take action to try to salvage what we can, or, consequently, all of us will lose it forever.

The iron-fisted, overwhelming jackbooted police control methods and Constitutional violations committed by the police, with impunity, against Occupiers, have made it clear that any type of resistance against 1% control of our government and our lives will be met with brutal overwhelming force and numbers from the police agency of the 1% police state.

Besides that, Patriot Act, the NDAA, and the impunity with which the government spies on us, are all the proof that I need to confirm that I am, indeed, living in a police state.

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