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Is America a Free Country? or a Police State?
- Thread starter dingodan
- Start date
It all depends on the colour of your skin and if you have a dingle dangle or not.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,302
why not ask an American forum? Who here would have any idea (aside from a handful)? people claim "police state" without any real understanding of what police states are (you don't get to say anything against the state).
How to embed tweets?
Take the url twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/501341861064110080
Then just use the number bit:
[tweet]501341861064110080[/tweet]
[tweet]501341861064110080[/tweet]
Perfidious Albion
Well-known member
According to Wikip.
"The inhabitants of a police state experience restrictions on their mobility, and on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state.[1] Robert von Mohl, who first introduced the rule of law to German jurisprudence, contrasted the Rechtsstaat ("legal" or "constitutional" state) with the aristocratic Polizeistaat ("police state").[2]"
So No...it is not as bad as that , but do the Police over react to crowd control issues? Yes..They are over armed and make things worse. I read that a lot of military hardware had been flogged off cheap in the U S to Police forces, after coming home from Iraq.. They sure enjoy using it!
"The inhabitants of a police state experience restrictions on their mobility, and on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state.[1] Robert von Mohl, who first introduced the rule of law to German jurisprudence, contrasted the Rechtsstaat ("legal" or "constitutional" state) with the aristocratic Polizeistaat ("police state").[2]"
So No...it is not as bad as that , but do the Police over react to crowd control issues? Yes..They are over armed and make things worse. I read that a lot of military hardware had been flogged off cheap in the U S to Police forces, after coming home from Iraq.. They sure enjoy using it!
Does that work on any fourm?
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,302
the original constitution permitted slavery and no rights for women to vote. so majority of the population is up.
Fair point well made.
I think it depends on the forum and if they have it set to integrate for tweets or not.
Kazenga <3
Test 805843
Quite a literal way of defining it hough. As that would make a truly free country an anarchic state.
Thanks Acker. I'll ask their moderator if they have done that. Cheers.
RexCathedra
Aurea Mediocritas
We already know what the correct answer is, per the Murray Rothbard avatar, don't we?
Also a classic example of the false-dlemma fallacy.
Also a classic example of the false-dlemma fallacy.
Literal, but it's true.
It's all down to the level of policing that any given society is willing to surrender to. It's the social contract theory of Thomas Hobbes (and others), but basically it's true that in return for a general sense of peace and freedom of speech I'll agree to abide by certain rules and regulations.
Kazenga <3
Test 805843
I suppose your right in that a truly free country would have no rules and could be governed purely on morality. But yeah obviously morality is subjective and some people are just ***** so this could never happen with any success.
I would hate to live in a free country. It'd be madness. Possible a great holiday destination for a few weeks.