...How to Be a Police State:

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/2/amy_goodman_two_democracy_now_producers

280 protesters at the Republican convention in St. Paul were arrested Labor Day (Monday 9/1), including Amy Goodman and producers of her TV/Radio program, "Democracy Now".

Shades of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where hundreds of protesters were arrested for peacefully protesting against the outgoing Johnson administration.

"Land of the Free" -- as long as the Republicans are in power, that line in the "Star Spangled Banner" makes no sense.