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

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20. I don't like your micro-focus

I said I was going to try to rescue this flame-bait.

If you stay micro-focused on the details (which, as I said in another reply, keep changing - in Boston, that is), you ignore the creeping nature of the infringement of our rights.

Other posters are telling you the same thing. But, you don't want to engage in that argument. You want to be "right" about minutia.

As for the Colorado situation, I want to ask you how many other similar stories you heard BEFORE the Boston lockdown. The point is that now, they are trying to NORMALIZE lockdowns as an everyday tactic for even more militarized, SWAT tactics. The fact that you can defend individual cases does nothing to speak to the fact that "lockdown is the new normal"; and that is not good for our democracy. And, of course, you needed a Shock Doctrine event like the bombing to roll out plans that have been on the shelf for a long time.

Funny how you don't want to discuss the big picture.