Bill Maher: This country is becoming a police state, it is very troubling to me

[bio-chem]

everyone can put all the blame on the black man, but this shit started decades ago.

This has nothing to do with his skin tone. This has to do with his policies that I don't agree with. I don't agree with him coming after my guns, i don't agree with him screwing up healthcare worse than it is, and i don't agree with him trying to control the media. But hey, that's just me. If you don't like him because he is black i won't judge you for it.

 

[Arnold]

This has nothing to do with his skin tone. This has to do with his policies that I don't agree with. I don't agree with him coming after my guns, i don't agree with him screwing up healthcare worse than it is, and i don't agree with him trying to control the media. But hey, that's just me. If you don't like him because he is black i won't judge you for it.

Oh, so everything was great during GWB's 8 years? It's just the Obama administration that is at fault for everything...ummm okay.

 

[bio-chem]

Oh, so everything was great during GWB's 8 years? It's just the Obama administration that is at fault for everything...ummm okay.

Please tell me where in my post I said anything about the GWB years? I was commenting on Obama, and his specific policies I don't agree with.

It seems you are trying to justify Obama by saying Bush sucked as well, when i believe you are trying to say they both sucked, and we need a change to something better?

 

[Zaphod]

Um yeah they are! Liberals are turning this country into a police state! Maher crying about shots being fired at a fucking terrorist?? Do you think terrorists give up info for a hot dog and a coke? The other lib at the table crying about NYPD stop and frisk on brown and black people? Liberal society cried about waterboarding to get info. Society wants police to be reactive now days and not proactive because it offends people! The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing because liberals have caused the police to be timid and reactive now through lawyers representing bad guys/ lawsuits. Where else can dude pull a gun on the police, get shot then after have his family sue only to make millions. Police state happens on a reactive stage. Something happens, police advertise force for the media to make it look like shit is getting done all the while being reactive. And also they talk about cameras in London etc. Once again supporting a reactive police force. Do something first then we will catch you later,instead of catching dude with a bomb or gun before it happens! So if you think about it Liberals really support big brother watching constantly, all the while complaining about it! You cant have it both ways!

You are, by definition, a liberal. You WANT the police to pull you over, to search you and your possessions, to go through your private belongings, to go through your emails. That is what a liberal wants. You want someone to watch over you. You are the government's dream serf.

 

[Zaphod]

Its all the same shit! Your concerned about police reading your emails without a warrant?? Im not! Im not doing anything shady! So let them find out I bought tickets to a ballgame or bought my wife flowers. Police arent reading your emails dude! They are reading the guy who bought 10 pounds of Explosives or the guy surfing the internet on how to make a bomb! They dont care about you buying an Abercrombie Fitch shirt or wanting your gf back! Wake up!

They are reading the emails of everyone. Based on a very broad list of key words. Same goes for your text messages, your phone calls, your internet surfing. What you buy is no business of the government. It's fine and dandy you like them knowing what you buy. The rest of us aren't okay with it.

 

[Zaphod]

Maybe if they would have looked at the Boston bomber emails without a warrant, they could have caught him before the bombing! But then you would cry about it being unjust!

They already had that information and chose not to act on it.

 

[LAM]

Um yeah they are! Liberals are turning this country into a police state!

you've got things ass backwards.

it is the neo-cons that have been running the CIA since it's inception post WWII, there has not been one single liberal CIA director.. it was the neo-cons that started the fake war on drugs and the fake war on terrorism. it was the neo-cons that started the for profit prison system in the US and the "fear campaign" of the 80's after the USSR fell that the "others" are coming for your stuff. it was the neo-cons (Reagan & Ollie North) that came up with REX-84, the Patriot Act and NDAA, etc...every bad piece of legislation such as right to work for less wage laws, stand your ground laws, privatizing education, etc. all come from ALEC the conservative organization out of AZ which is nothing but a median for all of the major US large firms to get legislation passed which funnels money/power up to the top.

the neo-cons are all about authoritarianism, supply side economics rapidly concentrated the nations wealth into the hands of the few and the financial sector. the concentrates political and economic power. which is why neither the right or the left pass any legislation that truly ever helps the working class. to do that would mean to take away from the supply-side of the equation.

when the republicans started going further to the right in the 70's and every decades since the left has moved further to the right and selling out right behind the neo-cons. they talk about freedom on tv but the effects of the policy they champion for brings the exact opposite effect.