Justice Robert H. Jackson Quote

"I cannot say that our country
could have no secret police
without becoming totalitarian,
but I can say with great conviction
that it cannot become totalitarian
without a centralized national police."

by:	Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U. S. Supreme Court Justice
Source:	The Supreme Court in the American System of Government, 1955
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Categories:	Authority, Government, Justice, Police, Secrecy, Totalitarian
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These police forces exist in the form of the CIA, FBI, NSA, IRS, Secret Service, state and local police, and other unconstitutional agencies. If we don't take a stand now, we are doomed.  -- Joe, Rochester, MI
He cannot say it because it would be hazardous to his health. I personally know political prisoners in the U.S. that were put through kangaroo exercises without as much as a grand jury hearing. The appeals were ruled frivolous, never able to be brought up again. This one personal experience is enough to prove a totalitarian police state, even if it didn't happen all the time.  -- Mike, Norwalk
-- Anonymous, Reston, VA US
As a P.S. One friend that is in prison is a Christian Pacifist believing in non-violent reform. His only crime is a family feud between his father and a government official that lived in the neighborhood.  -- Mike, Norwalk

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