The so-called CSA had internal passports, just like the Soviet Union.
From a review of Mark Neely's 'Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism':
"Neely challenged this consensus by examining the available arrest records, court opinions, and other documents related to Confederate wartime arrests of civilians; in other words, he applied basically the same methodology that worked so well in . Focusing particularly on cases involving suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, declarations of martial law, draft evasion, and other expressions of dissent, he found that the Confederate record was not much different from that of the Union. Confederate authorities, Neely argues, used much the same pragmatic, flexible approach characteristic of the Lincoln administration. "Though Confederate measures taken for internal security, when noticed at all, have been assumed to be necessary, and, if anything, too mild, there is evidence of political repression," Neely wrote (p. 132). People in the Confederacy were arrested for their political beliefs, jailed without benefit of the writ of habeas corpus, and subjected to the sometimes not-very-tender mercies of martial law and military rule."
Walt
So, you're agreeing that the union was a police state? Or are you saying the Confederacy wasn't? Which of your positions are you willing to sacrifice in order to make your attack? LOL.