Stephan:   Here is the latest on the American Police State trend, and it should be pointed out that we know all this because of Edward Snowden. The government would never have told us. What fascinates me is that this police state has developed with hardly a demur from the people under surveillance. It would seem that the critical mass of us are o.k. with this situation. History, I think, is going to note Obama's presidency for two things, one is obvious, the other seems mostly unremarked. It has nothing to do with Obamacare which, afterall is just a more benign form of the illness profit system, because it is still basing healthcare on profit not wellness. No, this is what I think history will remember: 1) He was the first African-American President and, 2) He was the President who created the American police state, depriving citizens of their rights to privacy and subjecting them to 24/7 surveillance. I find it very ironic that the best story I could find on this, is in a Russian news service.