- Jan 15, 2013
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In my opinion things have gotten much worse since Obama was elected. I am not seeing much oversight or accountability anymore, and it looks as if this will get far worse before it gets better.
Here is the link to read MotherJones.com It has links within it for references that you can read.
Quote: "If all you've got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and prosecutors are your only tool, sooner or later everything and everyone will be treated as criminal. This is increasingly the American way of life, a path that involves "solving" social problems (and even some non-problems) by throwing cops at them, with generally disastrous results. Wall-to-wall criminal law encroaches ever more on everyday life as police power is applied in ways that would have been unthinkable just a generation ago."
Here is the link to read MotherJones.com It has links within it for references that you can read.
Quote: "If all you've got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and prosecutors are your only tool, sooner or later everything and everyone will be treated as criminal. This is increasingly the American way of life, a path that involves "solving" social problems (and even some non-problems) by throwing cops at them, with generally disastrous results. Wall-to-wall criminal law encroaches ever more on everyday life as police power is applied in ways that would have been unthinkable just a generation ago."