It's not about freedom, it's about control. They struggle to control our own internet, and they'd like to control the internet of other countries too, but they can't if those countries control them first. "Freedom", in this case, is just a tool they use to undermine the control of others. No more, no less.
Today, we use our tool to undermine a dictator we don't like. Tomorrow, we install our own dictator, and then the tool becomes obsolete.
I really really hope some people from ICE go to jail.
In the US, a SWAT team can get a rubber-stamped warrant detailing a seemingly innocuous crime but inexplicably allowing for a no-knock raid anyway, kick down the wrong door, unload their automatic weapons into innocent men, women, and children, destroy video evidence of the shooting afterwards by detaining witnesses and crushing their phones and if they are very, very unlucky, they might get a paid vacation out of it (I believe they call them "internal investigations") while the police chief tries to round up the medals to pin on them.
You can't even prosecute a DA here for arresting and charging people with crimes that don't exist, and you think they are going to arrest some bureaucrat because he might have infringed on someone's first amendment rights? Buwahahaha! You must be new here.
I think this is the unfortunate truth of the matter.
1. The government does what it wants.
2. The courts almost never call them on it.
3. What are you going to do about it, serf?
Talk all you want; they don't have to listen. Sue them and the courts will balk. Come election day, you'll have a "choice" between their Republican stooge or their Democrat stooge, and through clever redistricting, even that non-choice has mostly been removed from you. Violence just gets you a spot on the news as a "terrorist". What's left?
How about a law abiding citizen that doesn't want the hassle of being stopped and searched without any probable cause, in violation of the 4th amendment?
Best Buy apparently believes it owns the colors black, orange, and blue in the context of the electronics retail industry. Seems a bit greedy for one company, doesn't it?
And can you imagine if someone happened to be recording you while you whistled next to the cop? The unauthorized public performance of a copyrighted work and felony wiretapping of a government employee?
Being acquainted with some police officers, I have personally heard at least one say that they ticket anyone who is not at least halfway across the intersection by the time the light turns red.
I realize we aren't a police state but a corporate state
The two aren't mutually exclusive.
And the cause is obvious: when the government is allowed the power to pick winners and losers in business, don't be surprised when businesses buy politicians and political favors. If people really want to get out from under the thumb of corporations, they should look at giving the government less power, not more.
I didn't say that I didn't know what the law said. I asked you to prove that you cannot get a ticket.
Yesterday I would have said that you "cannot" be dragged out of your house in your underwear at 6 AM and at gunpoint and be made to wait in a police car with your three children for 6 hours while police look for your ex-wife who they think may have committed financial aid fraud, but I think we all know better now, don't we?
The facts are:
(A) The city makes a lot of revenue through these cameras. They have an incentive to create a lot of violations.
(B) The company that sells the cities these cameras gets of a cut of the profits. They have an incentive to create a lot of violations.
(C) The police can say or do anything they damn well please, and what are you going to do about it?
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Re: Freedom for all but ourselves...
Today, we use our tool to undermine a dictator we don't like. Tomorrow, we install our own dictator, and then the tool becomes obsolete.
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In the US, a SWAT team can get a rubber-stamped warrant detailing a seemingly innocuous crime but inexplicably allowing for a no-knock raid anyway, kick down the wrong door, unload their automatic weapons into innocent men, women, and children, destroy video evidence of the shooting afterwards by detaining witnesses and crushing their phones and if they are very, very unlucky, they might get a paid vacation out of it (I believe they call them "internal investigations") while the police chief tries to round up the medals to pin on them.
You can't even prosecute a DA here for arresting and charging people with crimes that don't exist, and you think they are going to arrest some bureaucrat because he might have infringed on someone's first amendment rights? Buwahahaha! You must be new here.
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Re: Re: Re: Waste of time..
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Would You Trust a US Government version of TOR?
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Re: Waste of time..
1. The government does what it wants.
2. The courts almost never call them on it.
3. What are you going to do about it, serf?
Talk all you want; they don't have to listen. Sue them and the courts will balk. Come election day, you'll have a "choice" between their Republican stooge or their Democrat stooge, and through clever redistricting, even that non-choice has mostly been removed from you. Violence just gets you a spot on the news as a "terrorist". What's left?
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And then they complain that no one takes them seriously . . .
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Does that mean he's aiding and abetting the aiding and abetting of drunk driving, possibly?
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Under that theory, everything the government doesn't like is "aiding and abetting".
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They haven't laid claim to yellow . . . yet.
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Color Greed
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You'd be lucky not to get a lethal injection!
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Good Lord
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I'll Say It
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Re: Police or Corporate State?
The two aren't mutually exclusive.
And the cause is obvious: when the government is allowed the power to pick winners and losers in business, don't be surprised when businesses buy politicians and political favors. If people really want to get out from under the thumb of corporations, they should look at giving the government less power, not more.
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Re: Re: Re: Yellow light = slamming on brakes = accidents
I didn't say that I didn't know what the law said. I asked you to prove that you cannot get a ticket.
Yesterday I would have said that you "cannot" be dragged out of your house in your underwear at 6 AM and at gunpoint and be made to wait in a police car with your three children for 6 hours while police look for your ex-wife who they think may have committed financial aid fraud, but I think we all know better now, don't we?
The facts are:
(A) The city makes a lot of revenue through these cameras. They have an incentive to create a lot of violations.
(B) The company that sells the cities these cameras gets of a cut of the profits. They have an incentive to create a lot of violations.
(C) The police can say or do anything they damn well please, and what are you going to do about it?
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Re: Yellow light = slamming on brakes = accidents
Prove that statement.
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You could probably get rid of them and suffer little to no ill effects.
Seat belt usage?
Definitely get rid of those laws. Helmet laws too.
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Re: About Time!
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