In my books and at my blogs, I've long maintained that the America of the future won't be the beacon of freedom, justice, and opportunity that it has been in the past.
In a Russia Today interview, "Is US a Police State?" Paul Craig Roberts, nationally syndicated columnist and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, argues that, in some respects at least, the future is now:
We have this case of Aafia Siddiqui, who is an American citizen, who was kidnapped and held in the Bagram military base in Afghanistan for five years, secretly tortured, denied all her constitutional rights. The whole thing was totally outside all known American law.
And now we've had Dennis Blair, the head of national intelligence, announce that the United States government has a list of Americans that it will assassinate abroad. So, the government has announced it is going to kill its own citizens -- without arrest, without trial, without conviction of a capital crime. It's just going to shoot them down somewhere.
These two things together are the definition of a police state.
Here is the video (via YouTube):
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