Who's Really 'Safe' When the Government Spies on the People?!

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Report: Feds getting phone records of all Verizon customers CBS News  - ‎ Updated 6:30 a.m. ET. WASHINGTON The National Security Agency currently is collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, Britain's Guardian newspaper said Wednesday. Report: NSA collecting phone records of Verizon customersNBCNews.com (blog) White House defends collecting phone recordsBoston.com Featured:The Guardian : Verizon has been giving all of the company's US phone records ...Deseret News - by Jamshid Ghazi Askar Highly Cited:NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers dailyThe Guardian In Depth:Report: Secret court order forces Verizon to turn over telephone records of millionsCNN International

 QUESTION: 
 What Do You Think the Definition of 'Police State' Is? 
Isn't this the exact kind of government we have always detested, as a people?
Is it hard to recognize authoritarianism from the inside? 
How do you define "fascism"?