is america becoming a police state?
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S o what the hell is going on here? Is it just a few paranoid individuals like myself spouting off or is there actually some truth to all the rantings of those who "just bring me down because I have to go to work now and really don't want to think about this"?

At this very moment, our government is holding numerous individuals, mostly men of Arab decent, on vaque and non-specific pretenses, (read: "ThoughtCrime") all in the name of fighting terrorism. The exact numbers are unavailable because our government refuses to divulge any specifics, using the tried and true "national security" blanket of secrecy that has worked so well in the past.

Meanwhile, various V.I.P.'s, some of stature, not to mention Senators and Congressman, are on the nightly news saying things like disagreeing with the president's foreign policy decisions is unamerican and unpatriotic. You fellas need to brush up on your American History. The whole damned concept of America is to question authority, plain and simple. This nation was founded on the realization that government in any form cannot be completely trusted. It is the nature of people, especially those who go seeking power over others in the first place, to over-extend themselves and eventually they are revealed. Unfortunately, this often comes at a horrific price. These are, after all, the same good folks who brought us WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and eventually, that's right! Now Playing: Iraq. Showtimes may vary.

There are television commercials running that equate smoking a joint-- that's right, a joint-- with supporting terrorism. Hey man! My weed comes from the good ol' U.S. of A. I'd like to say where but I'd rather keep getting weed.

All this reminds me of the time I got pulled over in West Virginia for going 10 miles an hour over the speed limit. Suddenly, out of the blue, the State Trooper looks at me and half asks, half says, "You don't have any weapons, drugs or dead bodies in your vehicle, do you?"

How do you go from a minor traffic infraction on the way to the beach to dead-body-in-trunk? I don't know about anyone else, but that definitely seems like a pretty big leap of logic to me. Just lumping drugs, weapons and bodies in the same group is pretty alien in my world-- unless, of course, we're talking about rush hour traffic. And to the best of my knowledge, the state of West Virginia doesn't have a rush hour.

So what do we do before government agents, most of whom bear a striking resemblance to the agents in "The Matrix", come a' knocking for the big re-education round-up?

Well, I have a plan. First we... excuse me, there's someone at the door. Strange, I wasn't expecting any visitors at this hour... I'll be right back...