Is America Inching Toward a Police State?

PJ Media ^ | August 23, 2013 | Rodrigo Sermiño

[Black Agnes]

Inching?

[Disambiguator]

Maybe so. If we start 2.54 cm-ing, then you’ll know it’s over. Base-10 systems are the hallmark of dictatorships.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’d say we’re on a leisurely cruise at about 35 MPH

[GeronL]

inching?

Running full speed into it

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Nearly every contact I have had with the police over the last 30 years had been unpleasant. I've been hollered at, had fingers wagged in my face, had money stolen...and, yesterday...barked at over a loud speaker because a goon in a squad car didn't want to wait in rush hour traffic.

And, I'm not some sort of trouble maker...I'm a retired military officer with a current TS clearance and a strong sense of right and wrong.

You simply cannot avoid having to deal with the overbearing a-holes.

[RIghtwardHo]

No. It’s there. The Patriot Act killed a once great Nation.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’ve seen ads recruiting police officers for starting salaries as low as $23,000/yr.

That’s virtually hanging out the shingle and saying “losers and a-holes only need apply”.

[PoloSec]

It’s more like RACING!

[ConorMacNessa]

We're at warp speed, IMO.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

I’ve seen ads recruiting police officers for starting salaries as low as $23,000/yr.

I hear a lot about low pay for cops, but here in So Cal, anyone over 21 with a HS diploma can become a cop and be making over $100K within in 7 years.

And, I made much less than $23K for much of of military career. Yet I was still required to have some level of intelligence and discipline.

[gunnyg]

truly, a master example of understatement !!!!!

God help us!!!!!

[KittenClaws]

Inching?
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I believe “sprinting” is the term. Or, perhaps, “arrived”.

[KittenClaws]

Inching?
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I believe “sprinting” is the term. Or, perhaps, “arrived”.

[Dead Corpse]

That Rubicon was crossed long ago.

[The Great RJ]

I worry less about local police forces and far more about heavily armed government goon squads enforcing even trivial regulation violations. Look at the recent case in Wisconsin where more than a dozen agents and sheriffs deputies responded to a local animal shelter to kill an abandoned fawn. The government even used aerial surveillance to obtain a warrant.

Will government SWAT teams be dispatched to apprehend those without health insurance under Obamacare?

[Dead Corpse]

Patriot Act?

Ask Sammy or Vicky Weaver about a police State.

Or a Branch Davidian....

[KittenClaws]

Sorry about the duplicate post.

[bassmaner]

That Rubicon was crossed long ago. ... around 1970, when the Controlled Substances Act was passed and the War on {some} Drugs declared.

[Adder]

Inching?

Pshaw, no. Running is more like it.