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It seems that the National Defense Authorisation Act discussed in the article above has been passed. Congress has passed the bill and America is now a state that can lock up it's own citizens without trial and if recent precedent is anything to go by, can and will, use torture in order to punish them too.

It's scary to think that America and Iran share more in common than many would like to think. There is no longer any pretense at being just, this act shows America for being the fascistic, tyrannical state which it is.

With recent attempts to control the Internet, police brutality inflicted upon OWS protestors, the groping hands of the TSA, the Wall Street bailouts, the imperialist wars, the Patriot Act, Guantanamo Bay, bought elections and now this....can anyone really say that America is a free country?

Free to do what? Eat a lot? So my poser of the day. Has America become the totalitarian police state that I have long been suggesting?