Threat Fusion Centers, Massive Data Mining Centers . . .

[0.42]

Enjoy....

Armed SWAT officers to roam the streets in Paragould, Ark. stopping anyone who passes by.

http://www.paragoulddailypress.com/articles/2012/12/15/top_story/doc50cbbb312e241511092932.txt

Woof.

I'd like to think that using crime statistics as a valid (blanket) justification for reasonable suspicion and/or probable cause would get shot down immediately in court. But the War on Drugs and to a somewhat lesser extent the Patriot Act have debased the meanings of reasonable suspicion and probable cause so effectively that I wouldn't be surprised if this "martial law light" policy got held up in the courts. If that happens, life in this country is about to get very unpleasant in quite a few places.

[DQ12]

Yeah, that is scary.  Don't think it has all that much to do with who is president, probably would have happened if McCain or Romney won too.  The terrorists won 9-11 completely.  Mission Accomplished.

Eh, I don't think the terrorists give a crap about whether or not America is free.

Plus, in the meantime, we're still bumming around in the middle east.

[kstatefreak42]

the police state is not real.