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Originally Posted by Mattyk
It takes more than some traffic cameras to create a true police state.
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True, it also takes police having the right to stop you without a clear demonstration that you were breaking a law. Oh wait, listen to the Md delegates argue for the right to stop someone for reading their cellphone. The police officer only has to feel that the person was reading a text.
It also takes a government having the ability to listen in to private conversations - should i mention the "patriot" act
I am not implying we are a totalitarian society yet, or even in the next 20 years. But we certainly have given up a lot of individual freedoms that once were bastions of United States rights.
03-17-2010, 02:57 PM
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