Quote Originally Posted by JAG
Actually I think it is quite the opposite, rather than coming about because of a socialist state this has come about because of a free market state and an extreme free market state, at that.

Socialism is anything but a police state.
How is this a free market cause? Free markets are based on economic freedom, which usually goes in hand with more, not less freedoms.

And perhaps Utopian socialism is not a police state, but it seems that that's not the case in practice.

Glad to have ya back, JAG.

CR