Our Police State

There may not be much to argue about anymore. When a corporation, such as BP, uses the police as their private goon squad, it's hard to argue against the proposition of this writer that the U.S. is already a police state.

I think BadTux is correct when he argues that the reason why this has come about is because the American people largely are just peachy with the concept of living in a police state. Since, arguably, the average person inadvertently commits three felonies a day (and the prosecutors don't give a shit if there was any criminal intent), the only reason that there are not 200+million people in prison is because there aren't enough prisons.

Indeed, I would not be surprised to learn that one of the more well-funded opponents of any attempt to reform drug laws or reduce the prison population will be the private prison corporations, whose own rice bowels are threatened by such reform.

If there is one man who, above all others, is responsible for this sad state of affairs, it is Richard Nixon.