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This is a very good example of psychopaths taking advantage of government's irrational response to hurt others. Irrationality here is the War on Drugs. I think
by rdtsc 10y ago
This is a very good example of psychopaths taking advantage of government's irrational response to hurt others.
Irrationality here is the War on Drugs. I think that should be talked about in more details in this case. Granted, if it was shorty after a terrorist attack they said she was making bombs in her basement, maybe sprinkle some fertilizer residue on her car.
This always happens, it is a common pattern. I remember being told how during Stalin's time it wasn't uncommon for neighbors to rat on each other and say "so and so is against Stalin and making jokes", and magically the whole family disappears after an early morning visit from NKVD. Well they shouldn't have been letting the cows graze that close to the fence, that'll teach them.
If War On Drugs wasn't there and cops and society wasn't twitchy and irrational about it, the criminals would have a harder time. This just made it all too easy (and the real reason this is news is because she got way and by strange coincidence the detective wanted to look deeper into the story).
- dredmorbius 10y agoI've been thinking for a while now that police overresponse and internal surveillance and control are similar to immune disorders: a hyperactive defense mechanism turns against that which it ought be protecting in the first instance. I'm suspecting this is a general systems problem.