An American Peace Activist says the United States is turning into a police state."Here in the United States it seems like we are being controlled more and more by the police state apparatus", Cindy Sheehan told Press TV's U.S. desk on Monday. "We have to go through full body X-ray machines to get on flights."
Sheehan said more than a dozen coppers broke into a house a few days ago and jugged a man and his three young children for six hours over some questions with his former wife's loan. She described the incident as oppressive.
"Of course we have seen such [incidents]. When we had a demo at the G-20, the last one was in Pittsburg, and there were more heavily armed coppers... I myself was there. I got tear gassed, I got shot at with rubber bullets, chased by the police just for exercising our freedom of speech!"
"The most damning thing that shows that the United States is in the process of [a] police state is the recent passage of the USA Patriot Act which basically makes the Constitution of the United States null and void," said Sheehan.