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    Top 10 Signs You Live in a Police State

    1. Your nation has the highest per capita of its population in prison.

    2. Your nation spends the majority of its budget on national defense.

    3. You are not allowed to move about the country without your national ID card. (coming soon to a DMV near you http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/p...0317/1006/NEWS)

    4. Camera surveillance is prevalent in most public spaces.

    5. Habeas Corpus is suspended for political criminals.

    6. Torture is acceptable.

    7. Secret searches are acceptable.

    8. All telecommunications are monitored.

    9. Free speech zones.



    10. No 48" pizzas.

    Feel free to make your own list.
    "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
    —Orson Welles as Harry Lime
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    I don't think we are far behind you. Give our "powers that be" a bit more chance and we'll be there.
    Speaking of Erith:

    "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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    • #3
      10. No 48" pizzas.
      Clearly evil, but not nearly as bad as no banana option in polls.

      Blah

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      • #4
        11.
        Originally posted by BeBro


        Clearly evil, but not nearly as bad as no banana option in polls.

        Unfortunately, I don't know how to make a poll. If a mod would be so kind, would you make this a multiple-choice poll?
        "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
        —Orson Welles as Harry Lime

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        • #5
          12. Extra-territorial prisons: secret and not so secret.
          "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
          —Orson Welles as Harry Lime

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          • #6
            Re: Top 10 Signs You Live in a Police State

            Originally posted by MosesPresley
            10. No 48" pizzas.


            The US is just short of a police state then. We have 48'' pizzas!
            Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012

            When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah

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            • #7
              Points 1 - 9 only effect brown people from the Middle East. I'm not worried.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
                Points 1 - 9 only effect brown people from the Middle East. I'm not worried.
                Racist!
                Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
                  Points 1 - 9 only effect brown people from the Middle East. I'm not worried.
                  affect.
                  "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

                  "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
                    Points 1 - 9 only affect brown people from the Middle East. I'm not worried.
                    You should be.

                    First They Came for the Jews

                    First they came for the Jews
                    and I did not speak out
                    because I was not a Jew.
                    Then they came for the Communists
                    and I did not speak out
                    because I was not a Communist.
                    Then they came for the trade unionists
                    and I did not speak out
                    because I was not a trade unionist.
                    Then they came for me
                    and there was no one left
                    to speak out for me.
                    Libraries are state sanctioned, so they're technically engaged in privateering. - Felch
                    I thought we're trying to have a serious discussion? It says serious in the thread title!- Al. B. Sure

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                    • #11
                      48" pizzas aren't so much relevant to police states as to gluttony.

                      So:
                      10. The President does not believe his powers are limited by the Bill of Rights.
                      And that scores us a perfect 10 out of 10.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Thoth


                        You should be.

                        First They Came for the Jews

                        First they came for the Jews
                        and I did not speak out
                        because I was not a Jew.
                        Then they came for the Communists
                        and I did not speak out
                        because I was not a Communist.
                        Then they came for the trade unionists
                        and I did not speak out
                        because I was not a trade unionist.
                        Then they came for me
                        and there was no one left
                        to speak out for me.
                        Oh crap. I happen to be a communist trade unionist Jew.

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                        • #13
                          you're also a "me".

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                          • #14
                            I'm not a "me" but rather an "I".

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                            • #15
                              They grabbed him as well.

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