Friday, November 02, 2012

Looking Beyond Election Day: The Issues That Threaten To Derail the Nation

What follows is an overview of the major issues that both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, despite their respective billion dollar war chests, have failed to mention during their extensive campaign trail stumping and televised debates. These are issues that aren’t going away anytime soon. Indeed, unless we take a proactive approach to the problems that loom large before us, especially as they relate to America’s ongoing transformation into a police state, we may find that they are here to stay.

Militarized police

Drones

SWAT team raids

VIPR Strikes

Invasive surveillance technology

USA Patriot Act, NDAA

Schoolhouse to jailhouse track

Overcriminalization

Privatized Prisons

Endless wars

Rise of the Imperial President

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