American Police State : The Frog Has Cooked

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How do you erect the infrastructure of a police state?
You incrementally condition both the police and the public that relinquishing liberty in the name of security is necessary because 'we live in dangerous times.'
Be sure to make Grandpa remove his shoes at the airport but let that cargo through without inspection every time. The truth is that the mythical 'war on terror' was never meant to be won and can never be won because it doesn't exist.
The real terror is being waged against ordinary people by our own government.
To say we live in a police state is no longer an alarmist cliche. Perception has clearly and permanently shifted from the police being there to serve the people to the police being there to control the people