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The American people are resourceful, well armed and have a strong distrust of government, any attempted police state would last about five minutes and result in
by youngerdryas 14y ago
The American people are resourceful, well armed and have a strong distrust of government, any attempted police state would last about five minutes and result in impeachment.
- huhtenberg 14y agoHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHA. Oh, jeez. /me wipes a tear. Good one. Say that, verbatim, to the face of a TSA agent during a patdown after removing your shoes, throwing away a half-empty bottle of water and making damn sure a nail clipper rides in your baggage. But be sure to keep your voice down and avoid an eye contact, lest you want to end up on a no-fly list.
- youngerdryas 14y agoNerd fantasies of oppression are interesting, they need to feel they are under siege. It is no wonder they have trouble with women and business.
- np422 14y agoAbout ten years ago some guys from Saudi Arabia made it their goal to strike terror into US of A. I would say that they have done a pretty good job.
- analog 14y agoLet me guess, you're American?
- youngerdryas 14y agoNo one here on the ground feels any impending police state, it is wildly impractical.
- analog 14y agoAn article in the Guardian last year by a journalist who lives in Connecticut. Headline - "The TSA's mission creep is making the US a police state" http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/apr/18/tsa-mission-creep-us-police-state http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/apr/...
- youngerdryas 14y agoWho you gonna believe, the Guardian or your own lying eyes.
- analog 14y ago"Nobody I know feels the danger of a police state, therefore there is no danger of a police state"
- youngerdryas 14y agoYou may be hoping America becomes a police state, but you will be disappointed.
- analog 14y agoRight, anyone who disagrees with you must hate America.
- youngerdryas 14y agoA police state would be economic and political suicide, but I don't want to deprive you of your fantasy.
- danielschonfeld 14y agoIt's that pompous head in the sand attitude exactly that helps America get to a police state everyday faster and faster. BTW Plutocracy by definition might not be police state, but it lands the same forces on a none existant middle class. It is amazing that you can't see already how very little freedom you have compared with other nations
- youngerdryas 14y agoIt is not pompous. Trying to impose a police state would be economic and political suicide. And what are these freedoms I don't have?
- DamnYuppie 14y agoUm, by the looks of what went down in Boston last week we pretty much have a police state. We have more armed "law enforcement" then any nation in the world.
- youngerdryas 14y agoOnly if you define police state as voluntary cooperation with the police.
- chimeracoder 14y agoMy undressing for the TSA is voluntary? I must have missed the option where I don't have to get groped in order to fly to the west coast.