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In reply to the discussion: This is what a police state looks like folks [View all]whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)In China/Russia/etc no one cares.
However, organize a mass citywide protest in America (or China), then you learn we are a true police state. Exercise your rights against search and seizure and you learn we are a police state. The highest per capita prison population in the world says we are a police state.
500 deaths a year by cops, 40,000 swat team assaults per year and police budgets bloated with military weapons.
More Americans per year are killed by cops than troops per year by Afghan or Iraq terrorists.
We have a militarized border and para-military local police, we spy on the press, we spy on all citizens.
Just because you aren't tripping over dead bodies on your way to work, doesn't mean we are not a police state.
We are, in fact, living in a police state. It might be a kinder gentler police state, but it is still a police state.
Besides those facts, do you really think these weapons are being developed to fight anything other than a class war in the United States?
http://www.cracked.com/article_16710_6-non-lethal-weapons-thatll-make-you-wish-you-were-dead.html