Beyond the Police-State
Everything I see on Lew Rockwell's site recently reinforces a notion I have been developing. The United States is a police state already and we are moving beyond it to even greater levels of oppression. This new form I like to call a prison state. The prison state is a state where all the citizens' (inmates') activities are carefully controlled, like in prison. A central authority makes all the decisions and regimented life gradually is eroded until one fears freedom and actually wants to be controlled, like ex-cons who commit crimes just to be returned to jail.
It's only a matter of time before the State uses the "environmental crisis" as an excuse to rigidly control all economic activity.