[thatdewd]

The United States of America never has been a police state.

It most certainly became one when Lincoln illegally suspended habeas corpus in order to arrest and imprison thousands of Americans without warrant or due process.

[Grand Old Partisan]

Congress, the Supreme Court, and nearly every patriot on the country agreed with President Lincoln's decision not to let rebels run around unmolested, though neo-Confederates today have a probelm with it.