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In reply to the discussion: Now will people believe me when I say we live in a de facto police state? [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)136. The single most characteristic feature of a police state -- DEATH WITHOUT TRIAL -- is present.
So, there is that.
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Now will people believe me when I say we live in a de facto police state? [View all]
Kelvin Mace
Dec 2014
OP
precisely! thought it required more than mere "allowance" to get what they wanted. n/t
wildbilln864
Dec 2014
#143
Why should they suffer any consequences for exercising their first amendment rights?
brooklynite
Dec 2014
#14
No. Its your problem that you don't know the difference between a real Police State
onenote
Dec 2014
#111
If that's what you think my point was, there's no point in continuing the discussion
onenote
Dec 2014
#179
So you're saying life for an black South African during Apartheid was better than life
onenote
Dec 2014
#178
Your logic is fail. Requiring cops to show respect to the people tjat employ them is far from asking
ncjustice80
Dec 2014
#120
You are the one that will give the 1% absolute control of the police by destroying the union
hack89
Dec 2014
#237
Get back to us when the military is unionized and gets collective bargaining rights.
hack89
Dec 2014
#137
a police state is not one where 'one ruler has all the power'. it could be, but it doesn't have to
NewDeal_Dem
Dec 2014
#16
What's your point? That everything is cool? It could be worse but it's bad enough. nm
rhett o rick
Dec 2014
#7
The police are killing citizens, esp black citizens, with impunity. With out control it will get
rhett o rick
Dec 2014
#11
I am still searching for a point. I hope you are not rationalizing this. nm
rhett o rick
Dec 2014
#58
My computer appears to be missing the hyperbol key that many of you seem to have
hack89
Dec 2014
#83
There is a term for when the armed forces overthrow an elected government.....
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2014
#55
We still do. Not as much as we should. But politicians still get punished. Police get punished.
onenote
Dec 2014
#131
The single most characteristic feature of a police state -- DEATH WITHOUT TRIAL -- is present.
Octafish
Dec 2014
#136
And the reasoning -- Efficiency and morale of the police trumping civil liberties
cprise
Dec 2014
#140
If that's the characteristic feature of a police state, then the US has always been a police state
onenote
Dec 2014
#163
And thank you as well. 2014 sucked, but I have to hope 2015 will start to turn things around
onenote
Dec 2014
#185
There haven't been many times in US history when the CIA was under control.
True Blue Door
Dec 2014
#204