We are a police state - really
While I'm on underreported stories, I didn't see much on this one outside of the blogs. Kathy at Stone Soup posts on the case of Deborah Davis who "was arrested and charged with federal criminal misdemeanors after refusing to show ID on demand." This was on a public intercity bus.
I fear that by the time the non-news reading public catches on and raises an outcry - it may be too late.
"This is not a police state or communist Russia', she thought. From her 8th grade Civics class she knew there is no law requiring her, as an American citizen, to carry ID or any papers, much less show them to anyone on a public bus."As regular readers know, I think she's wrong about that. We already are living in a police state under the Bush administration's expanded "war powers." From the Patriot Act to the latest push to allow the military a greater role in domestic surveillance, the White House has been systematically shredding the Bill of Rights, right under our noses.
I fear that by the time the non-news reading public catches on and raises an outcry - it may be too late.
posted by Libby Spencer at 1:46 PM
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Libby, I wanted to give you this link to an article about Deborah Davis in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The columnist has some interesting comments:
"Sometimes I wonder how much of homeland security consists of securing the homeland and how much is an obedience test."
"The question is not the government's right to demand ID for people entering the facility, but the effective purpose.
How much of this is security and how much is theater? And if it's theater, how much of it is conditioning a population to put up with feeling shoved around by a monolith that takes our taxes, regulates our economy, inspects our food and sends our sons to war?"
I was happy to see the story reported about in another major city. It should be in every paper across the country.
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