tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415259.post-63635859301928414482008-04-23T13:26:00.000-07:002008-04-23T13:57:39.674-07:00At what point do we stop calling America the "Land of the Free," or a "democracy" and call it what it's becoming, a fascist, totalitarian police state? It really doesn't matter what the reasoning behind policy changes such as this example, <a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/border-agents-c.html">where cops can arbitrarily decide to peruse your laptop when you cross the U.S. border without probable cause</a>. This is hardly the first example to take place in Bush's post-2001 America. The excuse to eliminate our Constitutional rights is the same as China's. "We must protect the country."<br /><br />The one thing we have going for us is that, in theory, we can replace our leaders with those who'll revert us back to being a true democracy, with a Constitution, with civil rights. You know, those sorts of things we've been fighting to protect in the first place.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13874236631434052446noreply@blogger.com