For REAL Independence: RESTORE the FOURTH demonstrates at Santa Monica and Pershing Square (tags)
Report back from Restore the Fourth demonstrations at Santa Monica July 4th Parade and Pershing Square July 4 gathering
America a Police State? No, Not Yet (tags)
There are certainly serious assaults on First Amendment freedoms underway, but the problem with prematurely characterizing America as a police state is that it plays right into the Bush/Rove/Ashcroft strategy of instilling fear in the public.
"Have a nice police state!" (tags)
This time they descend on you -- a covey of smiling security screeners bearing balloons and brightly wrapped packages, accompanied by National Guardsmen with flowers poking out of the barrels of their MP-5 machine guns -- singing the Barney the Dinosaur theme song. "I love you, you love me ..."
Lawyers Ask: Are we living in a police state yet? (tags)
Reviews history and the current degree to which America has become a police state. This is a TUC Radio production and the links to the program are found herein.
A police state cannot exist without surveillance of dissenting political expression. And that surveillance is ultimately as threatening as police violence and legal entanglements.