The Police State approaches

Not only one interesting pig stoty but 2 in todays Huffington Post :

First is the one that makes me sick (by the way, I'd never have given my id):

...Quinn was crying hard enough already. He didn't need to hear that the cop was accusing his mom of being a potential shoe bomber. That phones in America are being tapped. That we are living in what's beginning to feel more and more like a police state.

Second is just sad but I'm sure it happens every week in our once great land :

It starts with a bomb threat, or the threat of a bomb. A homeless man, a flashlight found on the street and left in the bathroom at the Starbucks on Van Ness...It finishes in the jail.