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> such comparison is really an insult. > Forget about living condition, corruption or censorship, let's talk about police state. Here's a recent photo taken i

• grkvlt 12y ago
  I'm not sure what you're trying to show with this photograph (it's of a deployed SWAT-style police team, with armoured vehicle) though? That there are incidents in the US that require armed response teams? The fact that you had to obtain a picture from a national news source, taken during an on-going crowd-control/rioting incident means this is an unusual situation, not indicitave of 'Police State America', and is just compunding the insulting comparision. Try looking at photographs of city streets taken during a normal working day, and note the absence of APCs and riot police. A police state is a very different thing to the situation in the USA or the UK.
  • pastProlog 12y ago
    > an on-going crowd-control/rioting incident means this is an unusual situation You mean like Budapest in 1956? Prague in 1968? Riots like those? Or are those rioters worthy of their aspirations, while the rioters in Ferguson are unworthy of their aspirations? > Try looking at photographs of city streets taken during a normal working day, and note the absence of APCs and riot police. There weren't many riot police regularly tromping around Moscow or Bucharest or Kiev or Sofia during the 1970s either.