Still want to debate whether or not America has become a Police State?
Geeze, I haven't felt the need to debate that for a couple of decades. Always creeps me out a bit crossing the border. Military planes buzzing the airports, big green helicopters overhead, getting hard to tell the cops from the soldiers. That'll make it easier, I suppose, when they bring in the soldiers to do the policing. People will be used to it.
The crazy bubblegum mind wash that passes for news and/or entertainment from the TV in the hotel room. Ugh. I turn it off, go out and find some real life. Lots of regular normal people around doing regular normal things but scratch the surface and find how accepting they are of the crack down, how scared they are of what they've been told to fear. And yet how trusting they are of the worst parts of the controlling elite that lie to them all of the time.
And the UK too. Watching that from afar has horrified me, but getting back into it feels ever the same as it was and then I'm reminded of the things I believed about Britain and being British when I lived there and then I remember that Orwell was just writing about what he already saw and that was decades ago. I'm coming up on fifty and I realize I've seen a lot of changes but things were already bad before I got here. Look back at the last century and you realize that the people of Britain lost both World Wars. The people always lose the wars.
Canada isn't faring much better I fear.
