U.S. on the verge of a police state

The Arizona Republic
Apr. 09, 2006

The new "post-911" reality of the Bush administration characterizes anything other than instant agreement with treason.

We have two active combat zones - Afghanistan and Iraq - with no real exit strategy, no mission to accomplish and no reasons for our continued presence.

Our rights are being eliminated by the Patriot Act and by a president who sincerely seems to believe that his office gives him the authority to overrule the Constitution and the laws of the land.

We are poised on the brink of declaring an entire group of people, numbering in the millions, as felons, something that has not been done since the 1930s in Germany.

The world feared and disagreed with Germany. Much of the world now disagrees with and fears us. Twelve years of such government left Germany in ruins, with a death toll that has yet to be equaled.

Let's stop this while there is still time. I want a police department, not a police state. - David Lewton, Phoenix