Reply #14: No. And it's that sort of complete lack of perspective that drives me insane. [View All]

[TheWraith]

Being able to even ask that question shows that one really doesn't have any idea how people in an actual police state LIVE, any more than a corporate CEO has any real idea how his employees live.

Here's a hint. When you're abducted off the street and held without your family knowing where you are or if you're alive for years, just for expressing a political opinion; when protests are met with tank fire; when you live in constant fear that you're going to be singled out for rape, torture, or murder, maybe for belonging to the wrong group or just being in the wrong town; THEN, you live in a police state.

The fact that here in the US you can even ask the question is proof of the answer.