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Police State Party!

"It's a first for mass transit in the United States. NYPD officers, armed with rifles, submachine guns, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs will begin patrolling the city's subway system thanks to a 50 percent increase in a homeland security grant." Well, good thing we're putting that to good use! Turning an already problematic police force into a paramilitary organization? What could go wrong! If there's any of that grant money left we should use it to create androids that subdue anyone attempting to dance at a non-licensed bar. With a force as restrained and well-trained and not-roided out of their power-corrupted minds as the NYPD armed to the fucking teeth, what could go wrong? Should we be grateful it's just a ceremonial show of force, like those speeding cop car motorcades that wailed through midtown after the bicycle bombing? Or should we be worried! More »

6:24 PM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Pareene
1,788 views, 52 comments

Latest by n/a: @thedecider: I agree. I don't think it's right, but I also think the idiomatic abuse of "police state" is out of hand. Some people seem to be confused about what a police state actually is and then start forgetting how more »