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Originally Posted by shakran
Well what's scary isn't the "police state" (you're right, we're not in a police state. . .at least not yet). What's scary is that so many people accept it. The citizens of that town should be going crazy protesting this obvious violation of civil rights. If they violate his rights and haul him to jail for taking photos of a public scene, they're willing to violate YOUR rights too. That's not saying the whole government is a police state, but the officers that apparently WANT it to be a police state, should be sacked.
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I honestly don't believe that most people want to be in a police state. To the contrary, I suspect that if they suddenly found themselves oppressed ina direct and obvious way, they'd be up in arms ready to defend freedom. The problem is that of the boiling frog. Toss a frog in to boiling water and it jumps right out. Put a frog in tepid water and slowly bringing it to a boil with olive oil, salt and pepper, onion, carrot, celery, flour, white wine and canned tomatoes, and the frog becomes delicious. If people went from a relatively free society to a very much not free society and they'll know it immediatally. They'll stand up and fight and do everything they can to get back their beloved freedom. Erode freedom over a very long time, however, and very few are likely to react. It's hard to notice movement over a long period of time.