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Post by avordvet on Dec 10, 2013 12:00:53 GMT -5
How Every Part of American Life Became a Police MatterFrom the workplace to our private lives, American society is starting to resemble a police state.By Chase Madar, Mon Dec. 9, 2013 2:09 PM GMT This story [1] first appeared on the TomDispatch [2] website. If all you've got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and prosecutors are your only tool, sooner or later everything and everyone will be treated as criminal. This is increasingly the American way of life, a path that involves "solving" social problems (and even some non-problems) by throwing cops at them, with generally disastrous results. Wall-to-wall criminal law encroaches ever more on everyday life as police power is applied in ways that would have been unthinkable just a generation ago. www.motherjones.com/print/240896
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