or town, all are accumulating heavy weapons, surveillance equipment, all a duplication of the Israeli model. The worst part is Americans have forgotten how to deal with tyranny.  Americans met the British the way the Viet Cong and Taliban have met our own troops. Seattle gets to play police state This was before 15 million Americans languished in prisons.  This was before a million police, indoctrinated, no, really "brainwashed," fed on steroids, and human growth hormones. Add to that sniper rifles, armoured cars and specialist gear of America's elite special operations forces now "standard issue" for traffic police and meter maids, America has created a culture of power and oppression. Behind the police is government, layer upon layer, each more corrupt than the last.  Behind the police are endless prisons and jails, many privately run, all as filthy and violent as any on earth, innocent and guilty alike share one thing in common, lack of money to buy their way to freedom. Only the poor go to jail in America. Sheriffs and police chiefs, judges and magistrates are empowered to fill the "for pay" prisons owned by corporations that finance their campaigns. In America, sheriffs and judges are elected, nominated by the powerful, financed by those they are sworn to protect, the privileged classes, those of organized crime, the drug cartels, and, most of all, their political overlords who then serve a greater class of criminals, onward and upward until the elite bankers and moguls of world crime sit at