How Every Part of American Life Became a Police Matter (Mother Jones)

[Wilikon]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/american-society-police-state-criminalization-militarization


The top comment says it all:

"This is exactly what YOU LEFTISTS wanted...a Soviet-style police state to enforce political correctness all the time with zero tolerance. You didn't want a generally homogeneous society that had a set of norms and policed itself, no, YOU wanted the government into every aspect of daily life so that the "protected classes" could be protected. YOU pushed for the upheaval of society. YOU pushed for "revolution" and change for the sake of change. This is YOUR doing, leftists, and you did it all for your precious Karl Marx and his filthy "utopia" where everyone would be "just the same". Welcome to YOUR nightmare."

[hawkeye]

As many others point out in the comment section, it is both the left and the right.  The simple fact of the matter is that power corrupts.

[Ch1bi]

This was an eye opener for me as I haven't really thought of life in this way until now..

[Wilikon]

As many others point out in the comment section, it is both the left and the right.  The simple fact of the matter is that power corrupts.

I Agree. The Patriot Act was not an obama creation.