I didn't believe you! But it's true!

Quite amazing, right? When I first saw the headline yesterday about it, I thought BS.

I wonder if, the more a country moves toward being perceived as "advanced", what is really happening is that it is moving toward barbarism.

In many ways, yes. "advanced" means wealthy and technological - it isn't tied to the wellbeing of the people. It is a return to the days of monarchy.

This is being done to blur those lines, and to inure the public to government murder.

100% - that way, everyone can be deemed a terrorist for any occasion.