re: #119 reine.de.tout

We are currently living in a “police state” because the Patriot Act is still in effect?
Really?

From Drudge

A home-schooled 16-year-old in North Carolina was arrested by FBI agents in February and is being held without charge in Indiana after authorities alleged that a bomb threat was made from an IP address in his home. A federal judge has put a gag order on the case that prevents the U.S. attorney in Indiana or FBI from commenting on the detention of Ashton Lundeby, 16. “We have no rights under the Patriot Act,” said his mother Annette Lundeby. “It wasn’t intended to drag your barely 16-year-old, 120-pound son out in the middle of the night on a charge that we can’t even defend.”

I would argue we are more on a slippery slope. We’re not a police state yet, but when you have police departments and city governments putting up cameras on every street corner, Local departments purchasing tanks .

Take a look at what’s happening in Great Britain. We’re not that far behind.