Am I the only one who finds themselves wondering how all these cops just "happen" to have drugs handy, for planting? I find it difficult to believe that every single one of these "manufactured evidence" scenarios, involves drugs that they found, and just had to re-enact for their body cams. Perhaps the problem isn't just the number of bad apples, but the issues with the evidence locker that seems to be oozing baggies of evidence for these cops to plant in the first place.
Perhaps it's just me, but saying ".. as long as it's done for [insert requirement/prerequisite/justification here]" defeats the whole purpose of freedom of speech.
Why does there have to be a reason, to exercise our freedom of speech? Those who are collecting our metadata (the alphabet soup crowd), don't have ANY reason to be doing it, other than their desire to do so. What gives them the right to collect and use our MD "because we wanna..", and yet, restricts us, or anyone else, from doing the same without justification?
Remember, they keep telling us that this collection of all things digital, is completely harmless, and that, despite there being no demonstrable need, they're just doing it for our own good. Shouldn't that go both ways?
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Is it just me, or..?
Perhaps the problem isn't just the number of bad apples, but the issues with the evidence locker that seems to be oozing baggies of evidence for these cops to plant in the first place.
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Why does there have to be a reason, to exercise our freedom of speech? Those who are collecting our metadata (the alphabet soup crowd), don't have ANY reason to be doing it, other than their desire to do so. What gives them the right to collect and use our MD "because we wanna..", and yet, restricts us, or anyone else, from doing the same without justification?
Remember, they keep telling us that this collection of all things digital, is completely harmless, and that, despite there being no demonstrable need, they're just doing it for our own good. Shouldn't that go both ways?
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