The Police State vs Peak Oil

Wikipedia: The term police state describes a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of the population. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control, and there is usually little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive.

The inhabitants of a police state experience restrictions on their mobility, and on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state.

Battening Down the Hatches: Secret State Monitors Protest, Represses Dissent; Compliance by Design: The Continuing Allure of "Non-Lethal" Weapons; FBI Data-Mining Programs Resurrect "Total Information Awareness" ; U.S. Intelligence Budget: $75 Billion, 200,000 Operatives. Fusion Centers Will Have Access to Classified Military Intelligence; UN, Interpol design 'global policing doctrine'; Interpol issues its own passport;