tj444
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It is scary for me to see how fast and far the US has become a police state.. For many Americans tho, they dont see the creeping-in effect so deny the police state exists.. Don't see? They APPLAUDED it, and anyone who opposed the "Patriot" Act was screamed at as if treasonous. Waving flags seems to shut off the oxygen to the brain. The indefinate detaining thing in the US is relatively new tho, and put forth by Obama.. as with many things with govt, it morphs into more control and more power for govt, with less and less need for justification.. " "The frightening thing here is that the government is claiming the power under the Afghanistan authorization for use of military force as a justification for entering American homes to grab people, indefinitely detain them and not give them a charge or trial," Amash said during hours of House debate." http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57437199/house-passes-defense-bill-approves-indefinite-detention-of-terror-suspects/ "First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me." Martin Niemoeller
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