This is the kind of headline I'm used to seeing in articles on third world countries. Thanks to 8 years of dubya and a criminal, complicit Congress, we're approaching that status as our police militarize and our wealth is siphoned off to the agencies and corporations that want to control us.

Welcome to Amerika. Orwell was off by a couple of decades, but he was still amazingly prophetic.

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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

Umm.. State and Local Police are being used. Which means its under the Ohio Governor's direction which is ironically a Democrat.

Also Clinton moved militarized the police force during his reign. Good read for ya.

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Pioneers are walking all around singing songs about Lenin and they should be shot for it.

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"If you are looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"- V

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

come on you know you wanna play football..

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

That was a good article and proves that the two major parties are basically the same in spite of their rhetoric.

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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

Don't break their bubble Lumara.

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat