text: does anyone else think america is headed towards a police state? the internet's dictionary.com website defines "police state" as: "a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of the people, especially by means of a secret police force."   as general tommy franks recently suggested, that moment will come when yet another serious terrorist attack, provoked and instigated by our own meddling, interventionist, imperialistic government, occurs on our soil. all the necessary “laws” are now in place! never mind that they are all completely unconstitutional! and never mind as well that the finishing touches of our unconstitutional “laws” have been finalized and put in place by a “limited government” republican administration! america is now “legally” a police state!  personaly, i think america is being destroyed by design. it doesnt matter who gets elected as president, they are just a puppet, taking orders from somewhere else. to a certain degree you have fulfilled the qualifications of a police state.  habeus corpus waves bye bye.