police state alert: water your lawn or else!

CNN is reporting that a 70 year old woman was cuffed and pushed to the ground injuring her nose because she "failed to give police officers her name." She was arrested for having a brown lawn, a misdemeaner in her home town. This is just one more publicized example of how extremely oppressive our country has become. But let's not forget about the thousands of cases that do not make it to cnn.com. More on the police state>