Comment by bakies

6 hours ago

Any examples? I certainly don't like that they're involved in any capacity. I'd rather the FBI just do some good ol' fashion police work to apprehend those traitors of democracy.

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techteach00  5 hours ago

See you proved my point. You know the tools the FBI uses. I'm sure their in bed with Palantir too.

Police state against my enemies but not me and the good guys. It's all so tiresome.

  • bakies  4 hours ago

    My enemies? I don't have enemies. Normal people don't have enemies. Those people are criminal insurrectionists.

  • jazzyjackson  5 hours ago

    Just curious, where would you say the line is between “police state” and “a state with police”

    • AnimalMuppet  5 hours ago

      Wikipedia says that in a police state, the government exerts an extreme amount of control over society and individuals. That leaves "extreme" undefined, though, so it's subjective. (Also, you know, Wikipedia.)

      I'm not the one you asked, but: Me, personally, I'd draw the line at the independence of the courts. If the courts are independent, if they can rule against the police for failure to prove their case or for procedural violations or whatever, then it's not a police state. If the police win the borderline cases (or worse, the clearly bogus cases) just because they're the police, then it's a police state.

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