I really don't care who is proposing these policies. It is these policies we oppose - national id, ending posse comitatus, TIPS program, the PATRIOT Act, not the politician. I didn't like it when Clinton tried to pull these things, and I don't like them now either. In fact, I wouldn't support any of these policies if my own mother proposed them. Sh!t doesn't taste good, no matter who is your waiter.
but the constant shrill attacks and claims of being a day away from an American police state are just wrong and tiresome when repeated endlessly.
There are proposals for National ID, for using the military as cops, for infesting our population with more snitches than even the STASI had. These aren't just the road to a police state - they define a police state. Just how much are we supposed to put up with before we say something?
In case you haven't noticed, the people have but one chance at heading off power grabs, and that is when they are first proposed. Once any policy or new department is in place, no matter how abusive or terrible, it is there forever. When looking to get new powers, government sends up trial balloons. If even the sheeple won't tolerate their ideas, they drop their proposal (at least for a while). If no one says anything, they take it as a green light. Our government never gets smaller. Just try getting them to drop just one program. Just one agency. Just one power. It will never happen. If we don't speak up now, we have lost our only chance. So I'm speaking out. If you and others don't like it, that's fine. Ignore me, debate me, call me names if you must. But I absolutely will not ever sit by silently as this country becomes just another banana republic, someplace I'd be ashamed to call home.
Throwing out absurd comments about losing all of our freedoms and comparisons to the Soviet Union are simply hyperventilating and do not hold water.
People in many countries did not have the benefit of hindsight when their leaders talked them into dubious ideas in the name of some 'common good'. We do. We've seen just how various tyrants have come to power. We've seen countries become oppressive police states. Do you think the people of these unfortunate hell holes intended things to end up that way? Of course not. They were decieved. We know better now. We've seen what not to do. We will not be fooled.
I'm sure you won't be.