[Infowarrior] - A look at the "US and the Police State"

[Richard Forno]

....a rather well-done precis of a bunch of questionable laws/practices
enacted here in the US in recent years, if you can see past the periodic
conspiracy-theory phrases.  -rf


A Look Back and Ahead
Police State America

By STEPHEN LENDMAN

Year end is a good time to look back and reflect on what's ahead. If past is
prologue, however, the outlook isn't good, and nothing on the horizon
suggests otherwise. Voters last November wanted change but got betrayal from
the bipartisan criminal class in Washington. Their attitude shows in an
October Reuters/Zogby (RZ) opinion poll with George Bush at 24% that tops
Richard Nixon's worst showing of 25% at his lowest 1974 Watergate point. And
if that looks bad, consider Congress with "The Hill" reporting from the same
RZ Index that our legislators scored a "staggering 11%, the lowest
(congressional) rating in history," but there's room yet to hit bottom and a
year left to do it. Why not with lawmakers' consistent voter sellout and
failure record that keeps getting worse.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/lendman12172007.html