Police State America

Armed and dangerous, ready-to-kill agent checks passports

"What no one seemed to notice was the ever widening gap ... between the government and the people. ... What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security."
— Milton Mayer's They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (University of Chicago Press. ©1955).

Police-state America is a leviathan into which America stumbled.

Plenty of racists and fascists around, check your local municipal cops, but the hostility of the 1,000,000s of cops happened slowly, with silent accent or loud complicity from liberal mayors and the local corporate press.

On the national front, Dave Lindorff, a writer returning from the Philippines, Hong Kong and China, was subjected to, and witness to where the United States now stands vis a vis other authoritarian countries around the world.

Give Lindorff's piece a good read because the Untied States is going to get worse before it gets better.