Eight uniformed policemen storm into the bar, shoving their way past the startled owner. A dozen of the bar's patrons, chosen at random, are pulled off their barstools and marched outside where they are forced to take Breathalyser tests and recite the alphabet. Those that appear drunk or perhaps just illiterate, are cuffed and hauled off to jail for public intoxication.
"Wow,” you’re probably thinking. “Good thing we live in America. Where’d that happen anyway? Iraq? China? Fucking Nazi Germany? Or is that nasty little episode from one of George Orwell’s anti-Utopian yarns?”
I got news for you, pal. That ugly scenario didn’t take place in some foreign tyranny, and it wasn’t dreamt up by some manic-depressive science-fiction novelist. It happened right here. Right now. In America.
In Fairfax, VA to be precise...
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