Like on V for Vendetta.
2007-01-12 06:59:38 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
No. I think Bush and the Neocons are on the way out.
2007-01-12 07:02:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
I think anything is possible, even the highly unlikely. People believe that there could not be another revolution in this country, but this is incorrect. Given the impetus to protect their own interests the people would rise up against tyranny and oppression. If someone seriously tries to disarm the society be very suspicious because that would be the first real step in that direction. At this point I do not see anything resembling a police state, ask me again when all the left wing scare tactics against the government trying to provide security become a reality rather than paranoid fantasy. I do believe that we are losing the majority of our privacy though.
For all those posting that we already are a police state. Please provide even one example of how your rights have been suppressed or denied by the government. You personally, not some fantasy you read on a leftwing blog. Physical abuse of your rights, not just your perception of what might be abused.
2007-01-12 15:08:07 · answer #2 · answered by Bryan 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
it already is a police state. do you want it to go on further to becoming a stanlinistic police state or like saddam ran in iraq. how much worse does it have to get before people fight back? wait, i will tell YOU. the supreme court is the only possible check on this situation and they are old, uninformed and bordering on senility. They could turn things around but the haven't and they won't. And you won't. Reality, once a society takes a step or two down that road giving up liberty in the name of safety, there is no turning back. We have lost huge chunks of liberty in recent years. Now it is so very apparent that nobody in his right mind can deny the horrible truth. unfortjunately it doesn't affect the very rich at all, and the middle class is not yet concerned. they are making their bills and keeping their beady eyes on the prize. the underclass is being hammered right now everyday.
2007-01-12 15:08:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The first person to post (Zebra 4 ) hit the nail on the head! America has become the new Rome, which is just what Bush and his pack of wolves wanted. America is no longer the land of the free! But it is still definitely the home of the brave. People have to remember that the politicians work FOR them, and if the government screws up, they have to be held accountable!
2007-01-12 15:41:47 · answer #4 · answered by mrfingersca 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no clue on the show
i guess I don't know what a police state really is either
they will spy on us more and more, if they don't find anything suspicious, in many cases the spyers own fears and perversions will cause them to "find" suspicious things.
We will all be much safer though since more spying, Al Qeada won't be able to wipe their butts without the CIA knowing about it.
Less freedom of thought and less creativity, more more people chasing money from having empty lives as children, they will have to earn more and more to buy more and more to fill an endless hole thats there. More average actual material wealth. More people having 30 or so VERY expensive vegetative years at the end of life. Also, oceans rising 2 meters or so.
2007-01-12 15:07:06 · answer #5 · answered by kurticus1024 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The USA is rapidly becoming that very thing. Research 'domestic passport', 'trans-Texas highway', RFID,
Red-light camera, Infra-red license plate identification..you get the picture.
Our freedoms are and have been eroded almost to non-existance in the name of 'security'.
There was a federal bill, and it may have passed, which would require YOU to report to the police ANYONE whom you knew to be using illicit drugs.
If that isn't police state tactics, then there is no such thing.
2007-01-12 15:17:02 · answer #6 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without seeing the movie, I would say that it's an all too real possibility. Should we keep allowing illegals into the country, some of them are bound to be terrorists. Others gang members, and still others rapists and child molesters.
Eventually, we would devolve into anarchy, which is the pre-requisite to a police state.
2007-01-12 16:03:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Will become?
We have already given up our freedom just so people can "feel" a little better at night. we are no safer than we were before 9/11 but now we have airport screeners and air marshalls and military with m-16's in the subways. Are we still free at all? that's my question for you.
2007-01-12 15:04:11 · answer #8 · answered by Joshm 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The term police state is just a Dem slogan but now that the Dems are in control of Congress it would be becaue they won't say it anymore. Its a political slogan that is supposed to get weak minded, uninformed people to react. The court system is still working just fine.
2007-01-12 15:03:54 · answer #9 · answered by Tom W 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Warrant-less wiretaps, holding political prisoners without trial, torture, disregard for the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Looks like we're headed in that direction, if we don't do something about it.
2007-01-12 15:07:51 · answer #10 · answered by wyldfyr 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are ridiculous. Who has been dragged out of their home in your/neighborhood, town or state? Who has been held without access to legal counsel? Or sent to proison without a trial? No one!
How about V for vapid?
2007-01-12 15:16:14 · answer #11 · answered by Susan M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋