more surveillance allows them to let more threats through. Which in turn paves the way for more dictatorial laws. The end goal is not safety but a dictatorship where the few reap the benefits and wealth of the many.
There is much precedence in what is currently happening in the world if one only knows the history behind how most dictators rose to power.
step 1: create a threat
Step 2: use said threat to convince your citizens they need to transfer their rights and power to said individual to combat the threat.
Repeat step two until those that dissent are vastly outnumbered by those that will become slaves for the promise of safety and security.
Step 3: outlaw any groups that you deem undesirable, make sure to couch it in terms that it's for the betterment of society if these groups are no longer allowed.
Step 4: imprison and arrest anyone that still speaks against you.
Step 5: congratulations you turned another wealthy former democratic country into a 3rd world nation with a petty dictator at it's head that holds 99% of the nation's wealth and resources to play King with.
The question is will the police turn locked vehicles into unlocked ones to justify rifling through them. How many of those valuables will vanish along the way to the station to be recorded and put in a safe place for the owner?
Is cash going to be considered an easily misplaced item that will more often than not end up conviently forgotten in the officers pockets?
I have never seen anything wrong with the name Redskins. Until this current age of political correctness fascism no one had a problem with the team name.
Why is it seen as a derogative use of the name instead of celebrating the use of the name?
Are we going to decide all the other team names have to be changed because some random person decides to start being offended?
Let's be honest here. The last several presidential administrations have proven they have utter contempt for the rights and privledges granted to citizens by the constitution. They are probably eager at the bit for any chance that will officially make the constitution so much toilet paper like they already treat it unoficially
Maybe they meant police killed and assaulted by people will now include giving cops dirty looks. They assaulted me with their eyes so I bashed their head in with my nightstick.
Who do you believe, your lying eyes and ears or your trusty government. "We are from the government we are here to help (mostly ourselves at your expense)"
Like operation "choke point" where the DoJ illegaly targeted porn actors by forcing businesses and banks to shut down any accounts with said porn industry in an attempt to make them go bankrupt.
Nothing like have a police force decide who is moral and who is not then abusing their power to enforce their views on them.
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the problem though comes from if you restrict guns from your citizens you need to restrict them from the cops, and just about everyone else. Allowing for exceptions makes such a gun ban pointless.
As it is there are far fewer gun toting murderers than there are gun owners.
Even if you banned guns from 99% of the population there would still be that disconnect.
Personally I think we should focus on the mental health problem more than what weapon they happen to use for their murder sprees.
Otherwise we might as well ban every other object that people use to murder. That would be stuff like cars, cutlery, heavy objects, etc.
That is the fun thing about revolutions the corrupt rules tend to go out the window. About the only good thing though, as there is enough to make people refuse to do them unless as a last resort.
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There is much precedence in what is currently happening in the world if one only knows the history behind how most dictators rose to power.
step 1: create a threat
Step 2: use said threat to convince your citizens they need to transfer their rights and power to said individual to combat the threat.
Repeat step two until those that dissent are vastly outnumbered by those that will become slaves for the promise of safety and security.
Step 3: outlaw any groups that you deem undesirable, make sure to couch it in terms that it's for the betterment of society if these groups are no longer allowed.
Step 4: imprison and arrest anyone that still speaks against you.
Step 5: congratulations you turned another wealthy former democratic country into a 3rd world nation with a petty dictator at it's head that holds 99% of the nation's wealth and resources to play King with.
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if killing a criminal cop saved multiple lives I would think going to jail for the rest of your life would be a fair compromise
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Is cash going to be considered an easily misplaced item that will more often than not end up conviently forgotten in the officers pockets?
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Why is it seen as a derogative use of the name instead of celebrating the use of the name?
Are we going to decide all the other team names have to be changed because some random person decides to start being offended?
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Re: Purge the heretic, the mutant, the unclean.
Nothing like have a police force decide who is moral and who is not then abusing their power to enforce their views on them.
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As it is there are far fewer gun toting murderers than there are gun owners.
Even if you banned guns from 99% of the population there would still be that disconnect.
Personally I think we should focus on the mental health problem more than what weapon they happen to use for their murder sprees.
Otherwise we might as well ban every other object that people use to murder. That would be stuff like cars, cutlery, heavy objects, etc.
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It's terrorism to operate a site like this.
of course the obligatory note that it is sarcasm. Though I know people that actually think like this and I am ashamed to have them as friends
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