How to tell if you are a tyrannical police state |
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Tyrannical police states have certain universal characteristics. <a href="http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-17-05/a09lo650.htm">They spy on their own citizens</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1514376,00.html">kidnap people at will</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaser_Esam_Hamdi">imprison them without bothering to charge them with crimes</a> or <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090900772_pf.html">even give them a trial by jury</a>. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/13/AR2005111301061.html">Police states imprison innocent people</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/03/AR2005120301476_pf.html">again</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar">again</a> and <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1664612,00.html">again</a>. And <a href="http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/12728630.htm">they declare kidnapped victims non-persons</a> and <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1322866">torture</a> or <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/2/17/220434.shtml">kill them</a> at will. </span><p><span class= "article_text"><p>How do police states get away with it? <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree">From Hitler</a> to <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/12/20051216-7.html">the present</a>, totalitarians say that we must give up our rights and freedoms because it’s the only way for law enforcement to have the tools to protect us from catastrophic terrorist incidents. Of course, that’s the opposite course advocated by America’s Founding Fathers, like Benjamin Franklin, who counseled: “They that would give up essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security.” </p> <p>Now, I ask you: What do any of these things have to do with America today?</p> --------------------- |
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