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Fifth Column
Cindy Sheehan: US a 'police state'
2011-06-14
[Iran Press TV] An American Peace Activist says the United States is turning into a police state.

"Here in the United States it seems like we are being controlled more and more by the police state apparatus", Cindy Sheehan told Press TV's U.S. desk on Monday. "We have to go through full body X-ray machines to get on flights."

Sheehan said more than a dozen coppers broke into a house a few days ago and jugged a man and his three young children for six hours over some questions with his former wife's loan. She described the incident as oppressive.

"Of course we have seen such [incidents]. When we had a demo at the G-20, the last one was in Pittsburg, and there were more heavily armed coppers... I myself was there. I got tear gassed, I got shot at with rubber bullets, chased by the police just for exercising our freedom of speech!"

"The most damning thing that shows that the United States is in the process of [a] police state is the recent passage of the USA Patriot Act which basically makes the Constitution of the United States null and void," said Sheehan.
Posted by:Fred

#21  Unfortunately, I agree with her on this one, never thought I would with her on anything.

Not only with all the bizarre cops shooting and killing people first and never asking questions at all, the militarized SWAT teams with special ops training, the aggressive behavior towards people, the courts allowing SWAT to break into people's houses and the Supreme Court stating that police have that right.

In addition, a young girl I know going clamming with a very expensive permit and after having been spied on by a ranger all day with a scope being charged with a CRIMINAL charge for having ONE extra clam than the permit allowed (at eight dollars a clam for the permit) and not allowed to give the clam to other permitted clammers in the same group. And a 24 year old nephew who was banned from his neighborhood grocery store for a day because his mom had asked him to buy a bottle of wine for their barbecue, and he dared to take his not quite 21 year old girlfriend with him!!!

And then the request by the Feds to spy on all your neighbors. Yes, I'd say the descent into a police state is happening quite rapidly.
Posted by: Lionel Bucket5406   2011-06-14 22:22  

#20  Dont think its becoming a police state, but the civlian police have been militerizd. I was a state cop for 33 years and the changes in equipment, weapons, tactics, training and organization were very para military. Alot of it was just to protect us and the public. Plastic armour became kevlar, batons became tazers, shotguns to automatic rifles, breaching guns and rubber bullets. Military style rough duty uniforms. Most was just technical invovation but sometimes I sat back and said to myself "Whao what is going on" Big Big changes occurrred after the LA riots and the LA bank robbery. Would the civil authority or military turn on its own population no I dont believe so, with the odd exception of Katrina. But hell, there half the cops deserted their posts and out of state officers had to come in. It was a corupt agency to begin with. Cops and the military must subcribe to thier oath "to protect and defend". When I retired and old Lt came up to me and said congradutations - but nobody has released you from your oath. I frequently remind my son-in-law of that, your oath is for life.
Posted by: retired LEO   2011-06-14 21:40  

#19  as our friend Rodger the Real King Of France notes:

"They dumped his body in the ocean. That way, whenever you go to the beach you can piss on his grave." -- anon
Posted by: Frank G   2011-06-14 20:20  

#18  Bacon-flavored food.
Posted by: Bobby   2011-06-14 20:06  

#17  Exception for Osama

Osama wasn't trash, Frank, he was food.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-06-14 18:58  

#16  When is she going to start camping out in front of Obama's house when he vacations in Chicago?
Posted by: DK70 the Scantily Clad7177   2011-06-14 17:50  

#15  a visit to the NKor would do the trick or just go to China.
Posted by: 746   2011-06-14 17:01  

#14  Maybe she should go visit her good pal Hugo and see what a real police state looks like. I doubt he'll have the tolerance for her BS he once had.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-06-14 15:55  

#13  there's laws against dumping trash in the ocean. Exception for Osama
Posted by: Frank G   2011-06-14 15:46  

#12  She's free to leave.

I suggest the Marianas Trench.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2011-06-14 15:23  

#11  Lady, Bush is GONE. The Democrats and Obama are in charge now.

Miss him yet?
Posted by: Ptah   2011-06-14 12:33  

#10  No longer useful. Still an idiot.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al   2011-06-14 11:21  

#9  "POLICE STATE! POLICE STATE!
Help! It's the POLICE!"
-- Firesign Theatre, 1969

You need some fresh material, lady.
Posted by: mojo   2011-06-14 11:11  

#8  It is getting close to being one.
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-06-14 09:57  

#7  Seems to me if this were a true police state, Cindy would be in the can, not speaking to Iran Press TV. Of course, she could always move to Iran to see what a real police state is like...
Posted by: Spot   2011-06-14 08:02  

#6  It pains me to say it, but Cindy is getting too close to being right this time; there have been way too many examples of police power abuse lately,
Posted by: Glenmore   2011-06-14 07:37  

#5  I imagine the Mad Mullahs would consider it a propaganda coup if Cindy would move to Tehran. Maybe they'd pay here room and board. She could write a book about the police state!
Posted by: Bobby   2011-06-14 07:06  

#4  WND > FORECAST FOR US SCITIES: CONFRONTATION? CHAOS? UNIONS, RADICALS PLOT TO COUNTER RIGHT- WING THREATS TO "MIDDLE CLASS".

and

* IIRC FOX NEWS CHANNEL AM > GLEN BECK SHOW segment > 18 SIGNS THAT [US-World] SOCIETY IS ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE.

His Beckness claims that the World is being intentionally "heated up", ostensibly by dedic "revolutionaries" including those already in high positions of power + influence.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-06-14 02:42  

#3  OOOOPPSIES, forgot FREEREPUBLIC > POSSIBLE [terror] THREAT AGZ POPE BENEDICT, + Italia PM Berlusconi.

Yes, Virginia, Islamic MilTerrs are involved.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-06-14 02:33  

#2  She's right, wid the so-called "US Police State" still having the potential oer time to devol further into an "Army State".

Lest we fergit, PRE, POST-9-11 NET > COMMIE, ETC. GROUPS COLLUDING WID MUSLIM RADICAL MILTERR GROUPS.

World-Grand Socialist Revolution AND Global-Grand Jihad, to become World-Grand Revolution VERSUS Global-Grand Jihad, ONCE THE ISLAMIST MILTERRS GO PAR TO FULL-SCALE NUKULAAR.

More likely given ...

* MEMRI.ORG > ONLINE JIHADISTS PREPARE "HIT LIST" OF [US-Western] POLITICIANS, MILITARY FIGURES, + BUSINESSMEN, as part of "individual jihad" proposed hit list sponsored by Jihadi Forum writer Yanan Mukhaddab.

POTUS BAMMER + ADMIN, PETRAEUS, DONALD TRUMP...@etc. US-specific targets, besides the UK Royals, Other???

* SAME > DISPUTE BETWEEN JIHADIST WEBSITES ON VIDEO ANNOUNCING HAMZA BIN LADEN [OBL Son-Heir = "Crown Prince of Terror"] AS FATHER'S SUCCESSOR.

Hamza is still young at this time + lacks enough field credentials despite his alleged participation in AQ activities - THE FUTURE, HOWEVER, IS UP FOR GRABS, + IFF HE SURVIVES + TAKES REVENGE FOR HIS FATHER HE WILL STRIKE AT BOTH THE US + PAKISTAN, ETAL. THOSE HE DEEMS GUILTY OF KILLING OR HELPING TO KILL HIS FATHER OSAMA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-06-14 02:18  

#1  An American Peace Activist says the United States is turning into a police state.

Lady, you wouldn't know a police state if one jumped up and bit you on you insane a@s.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2011-06-14 01:34  

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