An epiphany: Those who claim the U.S. is now a police state

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2. I am curious as to

what you have invested in the system that would make being vigilant and questioning where we are at seem to be problematic. Does it need defense? Doesn't it do a great job at rationalizing and justifying its actions already?

There has been no sudden action that would tell everyone, alright its the police state now. There has been a gradual, creeping militarization and some obvious changes that seems to indicate that we are transitioning to something we many not want or support and it could be very detrimental to what we think of as freedom.

Maybe a better question would be, how far along are we towards a police state? What has changed and why? What are we comparing it to? Maybe we have always been in some form of it when you compare the force and power by a controlling group in respects to the perspectives of, say, anarchism./

So, rather than being black and white about it, I support your view and want to know what the motivation is since the system has little to lose at this stage from our criticism and concern. Calling it a police state will not automatically cut funding and turn it around, but questioning its nature will help us clarify our own positions and response to it and maybe, in the long-run forestall or prevent the day when you do wake up and realize, it IS a police state without a doubt and now there is nothing much to do about it but comply or die.

I don't think anyone really wants to live in a facade and pretend their rights are safe and intact by paying lip service. That's simply not the way to preserve rights and decency. Believing you are free under any kind of enforced tyranny is the worst kind of enslavement there is.