Quote from sameeh55:
Reading what you call "Contribution" on Elite, I'll leave that to you oh "Enlightened One."
btw dipshit, i did not mean to say that dubai is necessarily a police state, i edited my post but you were to fast to respond to it. What i meant to say was that it depends on how you judge a police state, if you judge it by having much harsher penalties on crimes, and having much tougher laws in comparison to other westernised countries, then yes it is a police state. But where is the bar set for what is and isnt a police state? Its not like there is some perfect level at which if you do more or less you are a police state, it is all in the eyes of the beholder.
Its all relative, if you compare Dubai to Canada, dubai looks alot like a police state, if you compare Dubai to another middle eastern shit hole run by fanatics then no it isnt really a police state. Im sure some woman coming from Afghanistan who gets stoned to death if she cheats on her husband, and has to walk around in a burka all day would think that dubai was the perfect bastion of freedom if she moved there. But if i moved there from a country like Canada with very light sentencing, and less strict laws, and less Police controlling my life i would think i was being oppressed.
