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Comment by deaux

11 hours ago

They're on board with doing away the rule of law, yes.

When in power, did they do something against the NSA blatantly breaking the law, illegally surveilling hundreds of millions of citizens? No.

Did the 99.9% of them not named Lina Khan do something to uphold the existing antitrust laws? No.

Did they time and time again change the rule of law to suit corporate donors, lobbyists, megacorps? Yes.

Did they jail people who were actually trying to help uphold the rule of law by reporting on illegal torture facilities? Yes. [0]

> Then a Labour MP has a complex mortgage arrangement and misses paying a few thousand pounds of tax. And people come in with 'they're all the same'.

Arresting thousands of grandmothers for holding up some cardboard, and defending it, is enough to show that they're representing the same interests. How much privatization did they actually undo over the last 30 years? Right, none, they either directly aided it or looked the other way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou#2012_indictment_...