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That is what the Constitution and Rule of law provides in this country and we're all supposed to live under it. At the same time you type this the FBI is attem

That is what the Constitution and Rule of law provides in this country and we're all supposed to live under it. At the same time you type this the FBI is attempting to argue in court that no one really has a right to privacy. If you cannot expect the Police to Uphold and follow the Laws they are sworn to protect you no longer live in a Democracy, you live in a Police State. If you go and destroy all of the surveilance cameras you see in a bank and then go rob it, see if you're able to request that evidence be thrown out because you thought all of the cameras had been "disabled"

krapp 11y ago
If this were an actual police state, the police would not be arguing their position in court, and if they did, the courts would never disagree with them, or charge them with crimes. Police corruption alone isn't evidence of a police state.
- ZoeZoeBee 11y ago
  po·lice state(noun) A totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens' activities. You are correct that a police state is not simply corruption within the police force. Your self-defined version of what a police state is incorrect though. We're certainly having our activities secretly spied upon.
  - krapp 11y ago
    The police don't control the state, though.
    - ZoeZoeBee 11y ago
      The State uses the Police to control the Populace, The Police do not Control the State in a Police State. >The inhabitants of a police state may experience restrictions on their mobility, or on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state. Which part of this is not actively being instituted in the US? The only reason I can think that so many people have such a limited and incorrect view of what a Police State is they choose to live in denial or they themselves benefit from the Police State.
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krapp 11y ago

If this were an actual police state, the police would not be arguing their position in court, and if they did, the courts would never disagree with them, or charge them with crimes. Police corruption alone isn't evidence of a police state.

ZoeZoeBee 11y ago
po·lice state(noun) A totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens' activities. You are correct that a police state is not simply corruption within the police force. Your self-defined version of what a police state is incorrect though. We're certainly having our activities secretly spied upon.
- krapp 11y ago
  The police don't control the state, though.
  - ZoeZoeBee 11y ago
    The State uses the Police to control the Populace, The Police do not Control the State in a Police State. >The inhabitants of a police state may experience restrictions on their mobility, or on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state. Which part of this is not actively being instituted in the US? The only reason I can think that so many people have such a limited and incorrect view of what a Police State is they choose to live in denial or they themselves benefit from the Police State.
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