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		ferdo on Aug 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't Fly During Ramadan > the US is nowhere near being an authoritarian police state. The US has the highest incarceration rate on the planet and perhaps in history. I'd say we're there.

homosaur on Aug 23, 2013 [–]

When people who are in the majority, politically or ethnically, say they aren't in a police state it's usually because they aren't yet being targeted.

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