[FBD]

Your post was tongue in cheek, I hope.

The definition of a police state, is when the government's primary concern is for its own safety, not for the lives, liberty, and property, of the citizens it has sworn to protect.

http://www.fourwinds10.net/resources/uploads/images/Local-Departments-Fortify-Police-State-With-Armored-Personnel-Carriers.jpg

http://www.militianews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Police-State.jpg

[gaijin]

tongue embedded in and then piercing cheek, then circumnavigating the globe, per Vasco de Gama.