Are We Becoming a Police State?

More Americans now fear their government than the terrorists.

by Rod D. Martin
April 29, 2013

These thoughts were originally part of a Facebook discussion, but they bear repeating here.  Much verbiage is being expressed of late concerning the worry that we are becoming a police state.  Indeed, leftist mouthpiece Bill Maher, clearly off-script, kicked off the latest with his statements about the Boston PD's actions during the recent Tsarnaev manhunt.

In posting that, I was strongly questioned by a conservative poster who seemed to consider all recent government actions perfectly legitimate (a reasonable opinion, except that he gave the impression that he'd have felt the same way if the police had randomly waterboarded half of Boston), and accused me of being Tin Foil Hat Guy merely for bringing it up; to which I responded:

(1) It is a positive good that liberals are starting to see Barack Obama as untrustworthy.

(2) It is a positive good that liberals are starting to worry about civil liberties again, since heretofore they've taken the view that anyth…