Everyone in the nation is liable for draconian penalties for minor offenses. It’s a very dangerous age we live in. Beneath the veneer of civilization is a vicious barbarism that can destroy any of us at whim and without warning.
I guess Ayn Rand was right. Both “liberals” and “conservatives” have brought us to this.
Yep. There were two big shifts that took away our civil rights and created an American militarized police state and “Justice system” without justice. They were the “war on drugs” under Reagan and the “war on terror” under Bush. Conservatives screwed up bigly by supporting all this.