1. They spend more time creating new classes of criminals from amongst


the law-abiding citzens they can find than they do chasing down

the old-fashioned criminals they can't find.


2. They find obedience to what they are saying now much more important

than any record of obedience to what they said yesterday.


3. They are not as picky about cleaning up their own messes as they

are about pointing out suspects in an "on-going" investigation

into whether any laws were broken or are about to be. (They are

just waiting for the legislation to be passed.)


4. Rules are made to be broken, for them, not you.


5. Everyone is a suspect, except them.


6. Anyone who knows how to work within the system is a friend

who might be potentially useful. Anyone who doesn't like the

system, even a little part of it, is a suspect, or a criminal

who hasn't been caught at anything yet.


7. Innocence is determined by lawyers who are experts on the subject.


8. All lawyers must pass a review of their sympathies. It's all

right to know and associate with suspects and criminals as long

as they aren't the one's trying to change the system.


9. Governmental entities that thwart the needs of the "Police

State" often find their funding cut.


10. Politicians or would-be politicians who want to change the

system often find their lives an open book, particularly the

parts that are pure speculation.


11. "Security" begins to mean methods that they employ to keep

their jobs, rather than methods used to protect the law-abiding

populace from miscreants.


12. Secrecy is used to hide themselves from public scrutiny

and any attempt to reduce that secrecy is a threat of criminal

proportions.


13. Incompetency breeds complacency and ineptitude breeds uselessness

until they spend their time chasing their own tails.


14. The greatest threat to anyone's safety grows from within.

Go look up the Praetorian Guard.


15. A "police state" prides itself on it's military-like efficiency

without attempting to deal with the fact that it creates

institutional cowards who avoid conflict.


16. Information becomes so voluminous and pervasive that they

don't know what to do with it except keep it under lock and key

until it goes away or becomes no longer useful.


17. Any failures become "learning experiences that we will be

prepared for next time".


18. Any blame is attached to the least obediant within their own ranks or to the "victims" of their ineptitude. Being in the wrong

place at the right time becomes a crime in itself.