"I don't think it is moving towards being an authoritarian police state any more than any other western country" The example on which this thread is based, and

"I don't think it is moving towards being an authoritarian police state any more than any other western country" The example on which this thread is based, and otherwise discussed within this thread (checking in every 15 minutes with the state or be visited by the police), is well beyond other western countries and especially the USA at this point. We'll see if that holds.