The Criminalization of Everyday Life
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The Criminalization of Everyday Life
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#2Surprised this didn't get any comments. It's a good reason to leave (or not move to) the US, or increasingly, the UK.
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#3This is a common way that a totalitarian state can be implemented on top of an apparent democratic republic: pass so many laws (and contradictory / complex laws) that anyone can be found guilty of something, then enforce the law selectively.
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#4> Sheriff Bud York suggested, according to the Post-Star, the local newspaper, that “in an era of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and mass killings in schools, police agencies need to be ready for whatever comes their way...
And in reality, they're just preparing for social unrest that seem more likely by the day.
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#5When I read something like this, I always think back to when I would see some tinfoil-hat type ranting on Usenet 20 years ago about the growing surveillance/police state in America. It was generally eye-rolling or unintentionally hilarious stuff.
What's depressing is that it's starting to look like they were right.
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#6Surprised this didn't get any comments. It's a good reason to leave (or not move to) the US, or increasingly, the UK.
Do you think it is better anywhere?
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#8"If you didn't do anything wrong, you have nothing to fear (at least from the cops)" is looking stupider every day.
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#9This is probably more of "If we scare people by throwing around the terrorist word then we get to spend money, have cool new toys, and look badass".
It's pathetic, but it seems to work.
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#10Surprised this didn't get any comments. It's a good reason to leave (or not move to) the US, or increasingly, the UK.
Once you leave (and give up citizenship) you loose a lot of options to influence it. And you leave behind those who are either too naive, too poor, too sick, or otherwise unable to follow; together with the elements who made you leave, and who now have free access to a completely empty stage..