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Police vehicles

Q: How do you create a police state in the mythical country of Zugoland?

A: If you're a Zugoland politician, ensure that police officers drive the fastest, toughest, strongest and biggest vehicles — preferably military vehicles.

Why? Because police officers want larger and more intimidating vehicles that they can use to routinely pull over, ram into, shoot at, or otherwise attack the vehicles of law-abiding private citizens that are usually smaller, slower and significantly more vulnerable.

Police wiretapping

Q: How do you create a police state in the mythical country of Zugoland?

A: If you're a Zugoland politician, wiretap and monitor without any search warrant all the phone calls, emails, Internet activities, text and other communication of law abiding private citizens.

This way the average Zugoland citizen never knows who is listening and where and why, and if there is anyone they can really trust.

Q: How do you create a police state?

A: You need to create an atmosphere of fear, and then — just like in ex-Soviet Block countries — the people of Zugoland will live in fear; start censoring themselves; and don't dare to speak their minds without intense fears of consequences.

Selective enforcement

Q: How do you create a police state in the mythical country of Zugoland?

A: If you're a Zugoland politician, enforce the laws selectively. Ensure the rich are never prosecuted.

Or, if they are, then allow them to settle out of court with fines that are ridiculously small, compared to their incomes.

Create an atmosphere where the law-abiding private citizens are considered guilty until proven innocent;

And, in sharp contrast, ensure that (the guilty) police officers are always considered innocent and never guilty. ...More >>

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