On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 10:51 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote:
The US has been an actual Police State for at least 12 years now.
I can believe it has for 11 years and change, but 12 years would mean starting 7-8 months before 9/11. Sorry if it seems like I'm splitting hairs, but I don't remember things getting really bad until a few months after 9/11.
Note that the disgustingly-named PATRIOT Act was the wish-list of every federal police(-state) agency. They'd been asking for unwarranted wiretaps and immunity and watch-lists of non-criminal travellers and all the rest for years, but kept getting denied ... until 9/11 made all their wishes come true. -- Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet. -- Arnaud-Amaury, 1209