It’s funny when people who have never experienced an actual police state pretend that they live in one. They like to imagine that they are dissenters in North Korea or something.
Yes. I’m still amazed that some criticized me so severely for pointing out that the woman should have showed up for the preliminary hearing (in order to avoid a run in with police) and that the article was entirely presented from her (or her lawyer’s) point of view.
I’m apparently anti-Christian and a left wing statist for daring to think that all law enforcers are not jack booted thugs and that all government employees, like corrections officials, aren’t automatically evil oppressors. Somehow thinking critically about an article (that was scant on detail) and wanting to hear both sides of an issue before reaching a conclusion makes me a FReeper enemy.
Frankly, it’s all been quite eye opening.
BTW, I agree we don’t yet live in a police state. I’ve been to countries where one can simply disappear for daring to question the government. America isn’t one of them.