Surely people calling the US a police state is largely down to recent events. I don't think that it is largely speaking that people who always thought that the

Surely people calling the US a police state is largely down to recent events. I don't think that it is largely speaking that people who always thought that the US is a police state have suddenly appeared on HN, but more that people on HN who didn't previously think that the US was a police state are changing their minds. The US has the worlds highest incarceration rate per capita than any other country and has just been caught running a global surveillance network that would make even the Stasi blink. To not use the term police state when discussing all of this would be weirder.