Is the U.S. actually a ‘police state’?
by IWB
Eric Zuesse
Is the phrase “police state” anything more than propaganda that a
government uses against a foreign government that it wants to overthrow —
such as the U.S. did against Iraq before invading it in 2003, and
against Libya and Syria since 2011, and against Venezuela since 2012,
and against Ukraine since 2013, and in all instances destroyed those
countries, allegedly to ‘bring democracy and human rights and the rule
of law, and fight against corruption’ there (as if that were honestly
the intention)?
The phrase “police state” is used propagandistically to denigrate a
foreign nation that one’s own government and its news-media don’t like
and might even be hoping to conquer by means of subversion, or
sanctions, or coup, or perhaps invasion by either the aggressor’s own
troops or else hiring mercenaries — such as, for example, the U.S. did
against Syria, hiring Al Qaeda and Kurdish separatists as ‘rebels’ there, to bring regime-change to Syria — all the while labelling as “a police state” the government that the aggressor is trying to overthrow.
The aggressor-country alleges itself to be attacking the target-country
because that target-country is ‘a police state’ and ‘violates human
rights’ — and the aggressor and its allies have continued this ‘civil
war’ against Syria ever since 2012, destroying Syria and refusing to pay
even a cent for restitution and reconstruction in Syria. They wreck the
‘police state’, and then abandon it. This is merely one example of a
‘police state’, as that phrase is commonly employed. This phrase is just
a tool to ‘justify’ an invasion. It’s a ‘justification’ for
international war-crimes.
So, there is a lot of hypocrisy in many common usages, of the
phrase “police state,”by the U.S. and its allies; and one must always be
aware of the propagandistic usage of such phrases or words as “police
state,” and “regime,” because the speaker or writer might actually
represent that, more than does the government which that person is
propagandistically attacking.
However, objective usage of the phrase “police state” is also
possible (though far less common). That usage would be based upon
rankings, according to reasonably reliable numerical measures, as being
the basis for an objective comparison of countries; and, so, this will
actually be done here — not the normal, propagandistic, usage of the phrase “police state.” This is about only actual police states.
The measures that will be applied here will be two: (1) the
percentage of the population who are in prisons; and (2) the percentage
of the population who have been shot dead by police during the latest
tabulated year.
The ranking of the world’s most powerful nation, USA, will be shown in boldface in
the listings below, because the usage of the phrase “police state” is
extraordinarily common in this country to refer to lands that its
billionaires want to conquer and haven’t yet added to their list
of ‘allies’ or vassal nations (such as Iran, China, Russia, Syria, and
Venezuela), but our usage for the phrase “police state” is different
from that propagandistic one; and, so, here it is:
(1)
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/is-the-u-s-actually-a-police-state/
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