Chicago: You've made me ashamed to call myself American

[Dragonfli]

93. So in your opinion, only stage four cancer is REAL cancer.

I and others do have to live in fear of the police, they have in fact assaulted and framed some of us, they are in fact "above the law" and always walk from committing crimes by simply lying in their reports.

People do live in fear of cops knocking on their doors in the middle of the night and do worry about friends and neighbors reporting you for trivial offenses.

Cancer is cancer, your view that some have it worse does not make it less of a police state, we are stage 2 working on stages 3 and 4 right at this moment with the patriot act and the NDAA, they are adding the last parts right now that you feel we are still spoiled about, taking us away without warrant or public proof and placed somewhere with no legal rights whatsoever, they have even made killing us on secret evidence "legal".

What you fail to realize is that most of what you claim does not happen, actually happens every day, just not to the "middle class suburbanites" or richer.

I grew up poor, we had no rights and were beaten often and I was a "lucky one" because I was white trash rather than black, they did not jail me for a decade or two for being black, but I have seen it happen to others for being stopped over weed, getting their assess kicked (and this is the fun part) acquiring whatever felonies are necessary in the report to justify the ass kicking, even tho purely fictional.

I would say you have your head in the sand, but perhaps in all fairness you are in a nice neighborhood and don't have to deal with the same reality as blue collar and poor white trash or minorities from poor neighborhoods do.

You need to get out more, start with Chicago by protesting peacefully, I imagine that will open your eyes to the reality that so many of us actually face regardless of your denial.