Re:Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against u...
by mcv on Friday August 09, 2013 @09:52AM
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> You insult people who have experienced a police state by calling what we are experiencing a police state.
I think you insult their experience much more by allowing your country to become a police state while denying what's happening.
It's true, it could be far, far worse. But that doesn't change the fact that the US is rapidly moving into that direction. The fact that the executive branch and the legislature both support the police state, doesn't make it any less of a police state. Yes, you can call it something else, but a police state by any other name stinks just as much.
I think you insult their experience much more by allowing your country to become a police state while denying what's happening.
It's true, it could be far, far worse. But that doesn't change the fact that the US is rapidly moving into that direction. The fact that the executive branch and the legislature both support the police state, doesn't make it any less of a police state. Yes, you can call it something else, but a police state by any other name stinks just as much.