"We are pretty free in America when you compare us to other nations around the world, but we're not pretty free in America when you compare us to past generations.If you look at the state of what's going on in America right now—and, y'know, in my book I chronicle easily a hundred different cases where government has overreached and encroached on Constitutional liberties of Americans—we're at the point now in America, a little girl can't run a lemonade stand in her driveway without having the local zoning zealots come in and fine her fifty dollars. We're at the point now where elementary school kids down in Georgia have their irises scanned as they board the bus—all in the name of "safety." We're at the point now where nebulous environmental laws prevent homeowners from building a shed in their own back yard because there might be a flood plain issue in a hundred years.This is the America where we're at, and I really implore people to read my book and tell me how we're not in a police state, because my research shows we're right on the cusp."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Cheryl K. Chumley, interviewed by John Stossel on Stossel (21 August 2014), 9:08–9:09 PM ET.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Police_state
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Police state
14 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Police state →
Related Quotes
"All dictators risk being overthrown by their opponents... [and] therefore need large police forces to protect them. .…"
"Sipo and SD was a conglomerate, formed... when Heinrich Himmler, Reichfuehrer SS, became chief of the German Police. …"
"These people are politically, socially, culturally, and economically invisible. How many are actually guilty? We can'…"
"[T]he real key to power in the State—control of the n police force and of the... State Administration—lay with Goerin…"
"I can't even begin to picture how we would deport 11 million people in a few years where we don’t have a police state…"
"The deterioration in police conduct, and the militarization of local police forces, quite simply and quite predictabl…"
"[P]erpetrators of the Holocaust were ordinary Germans. Many were not particularly Nazified... not being in the SS or …"
"[D]oes America now embody this common description of a police state?Clearly it does. The American government exerts e…"
"The prosecutors have all the power. Not even the judge has discretion, because lawmakers have mostly taken that liber…"
"Despite making up only 13 percent of the male population of the United States, black men constitute almost half of th…"