If the USA is a police state, what does that make North Korea?

Firstly, before the flames I will admit that things are beginning to reach a level of ridiculousness in the US, BUT there are an awful lot of
countries out there that make the USA look great in comparison.

Reckon you got it bad because you had to get patted down at the game? Yeah, it sucks but at least you can have a whine about it to your friends online
and be left alone.

I mean hell, are you forced to grieve when a head of state dies? Have you been forced to hand over your semi automatic gun because the government said
so? Do you get persecuted by the government for speaking your mind? For being gay? For having a different religion?

You don't know how easy you have it, hell I probably don't know how easy I have it and my government does not recognize free speech and has taken
our guns off of us.

So...hands up who want to go live In North Korea or Zimbabwe or some other oppressed third world county...

We live in such a police state here in the USA...I was just arrested...um...never. And when I wanted to do something...well...yeah I just went ahead
and did it. BUT...you know they won't let us protest...look at OWS...they could only protest ALL DAY...this evil police state won't let them
construct a tent city though...arrggg...POLICE STATE.

noun
1.
a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole
or to the state.

2.
( often initial capital letter ) a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state
dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.

Therefore, everybody gets what they expect there is no guessing it's outright in the open and blatant. Dictionary Definition of Communism
America:
Communism under the Guise of having freedoms, or maybe authoritarian under the guise of having freedoms that are slowly being chipped away at. How
long before those freedoms are completely removed and it's done by the people we so ignorantly placed in office is anybody's guess...but they will
still continue to blow smoke up our ass and say we do have freedom to make us appear to be the "greatest country in the world" The US is a
joke...with a bad punchline.

Originally posted by OutKast Searcher
We live in such a police state here in the USA...I was just arrested...um...never. And when I wanted to do something...well...yeah I just went ahead
and did it. BUT...you know they won't let us protest...look at OWS...they could only protest ALL DAY...this evil police state won't let them
construct a tent city though...arrggg...POLICE STATE.

I remember seeing a doco about Cuba when I was a teenager. The doco was by no means pro-Cuba but the thing that stood out to me was that everyone was
the same with the same opportunities. All the children had access to the same level of schooling,I saw olympic atheletes that lived in the same kind
of houses as everyone else. I thought it looked fantastic. I still do. Cuba has been broken by the Imperialists to a large extent now but Castro is
awesome.

And everyone goes on about China but most Chinese support the government. I have talked to Chinese uni students that are not stupid. I think that
societies that are not capitalists produce people with a greater sense of community. I think the biggest problem that all these places like North
Korea have is that they are trying to exist in an Imperial Empire that is working against them.

I hate living in the Imperial Empire not because of the Police State that you seem to think its fine because it could be worse. I hate living in the
Imperial Empire because we are a bunch a greedy gluttonous selfish egocentric pigs.

I only hope that the BRIC's can continue to pull ahead and that they are less demonic Imperialists than America and friends.

Originally posted by OutKast Searcher
We live in such a police state here in the USA...I was just arrested...um...never. And when I wanted to do something...well...yeah I just went ahead
and did it. BUT...you know they won't let us protest...look at OWS...they could only protest ALL DAY...this evil police state won't let them
construct a tent city though...arrggg...POLICE STATE.

Hmm...I guess we aren't a very good police state.

LMAO @ the guy who still thinks this is a "free country".

Who's the bigger fool...the guy that thinks this is a free country because...well...it is. Or the guy who thinks we live in an oppressive police
state and continues to live here???

Do I even have to mention the fact that you are free to criticize this "police state" and you haven't been arrested yet?

Originally posted by OutKast Searcher
We live in such a police state here in the USA...I was just arrested...um...never. And when I wanted to do something...well...yeah I just went ahead
and did it. BUT...you know they won't let us protest...look at OWS...they could only protest ALL DAY...this evil police state won't let them
construct a tent city though...arrggg...POLICE STATE.

Hmm...I guess we aren't a very good police state.

LMAO @ the guy who still thinks this is a "free country".

Who's the bigger fool...the guy that thinks this is a free country because...well...it is. Or the guy who thinks we live in an oppressive police
state and continues to live here???

Do I even have to mention the fact that you are free to criticize this "police state" and you haven't been arrested yet?

I'm sorry that I'm a fool because I can't afford to leave the country........

And you forgot the part about if I over criticize then I become a threat, and according to LAW can be arrested, without DUE PROCESS, even though I was
BORN HERE...

Sounds like you are full of excuses...but since you can't afford to leave the country right now...I must assume that you are doing everything in your
power to save up that money to get out of this horrible police state....right??? When do you think you will be able to make your exodus...since this
place is so horrible...I would think it is ASAP...right??? You do have a plan...don't you?

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