The Internets dictionary website defines police state as: A state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of the people, especially by means of a secret police force. Simple enough! All we have to do now is discern whether or not our beloved country exercises what might be called rigid and oppressive controls over our social, economic and political life. Im certainly not here to argue that America has become a police state in the image of any number of communist, fascist or theocratic regimes you could name. Lets just say that we need to look at this picture a bit more closely. First, our social life: We begin early here, with zero-tolerance rules in our schools. Would you say that kicking a young girl out of school because her Tweetie Bird key chain is a weapon is just a bit rigid? How about expelling an Eagle Scout who inadvertently came to school with his Boy Scout ax in the trunk of his car after a Scout meeting the previous night?
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:47:35 +0000
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