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The USA is not a police state. This is a catalog of tools with legitimate law enforcement and espionage uses, and I would hope that most intelligence services,
by grkvlt 11y ago
The USA is not a police state. This is a catalog of tools with legitimate law enforcement and espionage uses, and I would hope that most intelligence services, militaries and national law enforcement agencies would have access to these, and better, tools. We have known that such devices exist long before Snowden, this catalog is nothing new.
Of course, understanding the motivation for their use, and oversight of the users is important, and I am in favour of making sure these tools are not abused. However to say that their mere existence implies a police state is laughable.
- cryoshon 11y agoConsider the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_stop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_stop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States#War_on_drugs_.281980.E2.80.93present.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United... http://www.cato.org/raidmap http://www.cato.org/raidmap http://theweek.com/articles/531458/troubling-rise-swat-teams http://theweek.com/articles/531458/troubling-rise-swat-teams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_cop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_cop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_stop-and-frisk_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_stop-and-frisk_p... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rao33ZYlrq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rao33ZYlrq4 (just watch it and get infuriated) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...