He says the government has turned this country into a police state and this is illegal.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

As you may have heard, Senator Rand Paul had an incident today at the Nashville airport with the TSA. His father, Ron Paul, has issued a statement saying, "The police state in this country is growing out of control, and one of the embodiments of this is the TSA." What does the White House make of that?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

For example, Ilya Ponomarev, a member of the Russian Duma, argues that social media make it easier for protesters in Russia to organise. (Russians spend more time on the internet than western Europeans, not least because they have no faith in state television.) This is true, but the secret police in many countries are equally excited about technology.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

There have been a lot of charges thrown around here - the idea that, you know, this is Stalinism, this is a police state.

BBC: In quotes: Damian Green arrest