Comment by FuriouslyAdrift
1 day ago
It's a nasty little tool that became huge during the 1980's cut-all-budgets-but-war-on-drugs era.
The public LOVED it because it was used to nail all those drug kingpins... (remember all the ferraris and speedboats the undercover cops had on Miami Vice. It wasn't fiction)
Exactly. Now that the War on Drugs is thankfully over, this tool is being used on everyday Americans who are not criminals. It should be outlawed.
This is the problem with nodding yes to laws that will “only affect the bad people!”. If the law is ineffective, or if the law is effective and they run out of bad people to enforce it on - guess who they are coming after?!
> guess who they are coming after?!
The enablers either individually or demographically are low on the list. That's the problem, people feel justified being enablers because they rightly surmise the risk to them personally is low.
People love it when laws don’t matter unless they are affected.
It's easy to trust, when you've never been a victim. - Face to Face, Disconnected