How can one tell that a country is going stark raving insane?

Easy...when its judges send people to prison for not mowing their lawns, that's when.
The author below has a long list of other incidences of pure unadulterated madness gone wild in the USA. You gotta see for yourself.

Michael Krieger writing at LibertyBlitzkrieg:
Tennessee Woman Sentenced to Jail for Not Mowing Her Lawn  
The trend of average U.S. citizens being incarcerated by overzealous judges and prosecutors within the police state formerly known as America continues with reckless abandon. In fact, these sorts of cases are becoming so commonplace I simply cannot keep up with all of them. The following story is a perfect followup to my piece earlier today, which shows how American public school students are being arrested or harassed by police for the most minor of infractions, such as wearing too much perfume, sharing a classmates’ chicken nuggets, throwing an eraser or chewing gum.

If you are an adult American slave, you can add not mowing your lawn to the list of prison-worthy crimes in the police state.................