re: #54 000G

Errr… it’s not just black and white. Egypt was a police state, and even they didn’t just mow down Tahrir Square.

True enough. But then we consider police states like Syria or Libya, which have no hesitated to use everything from bullets to bombs and naval bombardment in attempts to put down such demonstrations.

If we live in a police state, it is one of the most lenient in the world.