People quickly forget the abuses of emergency powers for political purposes. In France alone, the top incidents come to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa

People quickly forget the abuses of emergency powers for political purposes. In France alone, the top incidents come to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961 Most recently http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/27/paris-climate-activists-put-under-house-arrest-using-emergency-laws http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/27/paris-cli... There's also broad, overreactions which sweep up too many innocent people onto various watch lists... topping more than 2 million unique individuals in U.S. federal databases alone. There are multiple, competing, political interests and personal agendas spanning the gamut of LEOs and officials to do what they do, in addition to ignorant discrimination and ostensible public protection reasons. Sometimes they just "don't like [someone]" and want to cause that someone misery based on how they look, talk, etc.