The REAL Police State = Russia [View all]
Today while watching the news on TV, there was a news clip showing Russian either (police or army) stopping citizens, putting them up against a wall, while other security forces frisked the people (citizens) being detained, the security force standing by watching what was going down, held their rifles waiting. Several of the people being detained and searched were wearing t-shirts and blue jeans. What were those people being searched for? letter bombs?
After the Boston Marathon bombings, I saw American police responding to the scene of the bombings, while other officers tried to secure the area for evidence collection. When NYPD went through city blocks looking for the perpetrators of the bombings, I never saw any officers detain, or put American citizens up against a wall and submit them to searches.
I've heard it over and over again how America is becoming a police state, I believe that analogy is incorrect. Our citizens are at the very least protected from unreasonable search and seizure under our constitution.
If you're a citizen in Russia, you must not have any rights to come and go as you please without the authorities wanting to stop and search you because they're looking for perpetrators. How can people wearing ordinary t-shirts conceal bombs large enough to cause the type of destruction that occurred during the last two terrorist attacks in the country? No rights in Russia IMHO.
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