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The escalating violence - and increasingly twisted use of “public safety” and “public health” as a pretext to justify the forcible dispersement of the #occupy encampments - seems like a very public message meant to strike fear into those who would consider joining the movement. Now, President Obama has raised the stakes by signing the NDAA bill that legalizes the detention and maltreatment of Bradley Manning, and essentially threatens U.S. citizens with similar treatment.
This is what a police state looks like.
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