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However, there is something new about its development in invisible
form. Police states come into existence in response to the need
for controls over the people and a military industrial complex
costing - even before the spread of the Viet Nam war - more than
twenty billion dollars a year needs extensive controls in order
to stay in being. In a country with an authoritarian tradition
such as Germany had, the trappings of the police state may be
flouted as flamboyant evidence of power. In America, however,
with its tradition of concern for individual rights, jackboots
concentration camps and assassinations by the government would
arouse suspicion that all was not well - at least, this would have
been the case a few years back. As long as verbal homage is paid
to the revered traditions, however, and as long as material bless-
ings are present to replace the people's loss of control over the
government, totalitarian power can be exercised almost as effec-
tively through indirection.
The problem is that now there are two Americas. There is the one
in which most Americans think they are living - the one which tells
the rest of the world to give us your poor, your downtrodden, for
here is their refuge from tyranny. One nation, indivisible, under
God, with liberty and justice for all. A government of the people,
by the people and for the people. Perhaps it was not quite as
idyllic as we like to think, but there really was such a country
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