There are a number of reasons why a person would ask the question of if America is becoming a police state.
With the suspension of Habeus Corpus, the passage and incremental implementations of Draconian laws such as the Patriot Act, and the harassment of airline passengers by the TSA.
With each incremental encroachment on the rights of Americans by the United States government that questions becomes scarier and more valid by the day. In fact, it justifies a far more powerful question.
Why?