This is why this nation is becoming a police state.
I can't help but notice that everyone who's said "America is a police state!" isn't in jail, sleeps safely in their bed at night, and has nothing to fear.
If we're a police state, we suck at it.
No actually our masters are extraordinarily good at running this police state.
The hallmark of a truly effective police state is when the enough of the people don't really understand they live in one.
Of course the fact that we have more prisoner per capita than the former soviet union had ought to be a tipoff that something isn't quite right.
But many people don't know (or won't admit it to themselves) that the wolf is at their door until the huffing and puffing blows their little shacks in.