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I suspect "I don't make the rules, I just enforce them" is the general way to get good people to go along with the government's schemes. One of my passengers g
by taxicabjesus 9y ago
I suspect "I don't make the rules, I just enforce them" is the general way to get good people to go along with the government's schemes.
One of my passengers got 'ordinarily-renditioned' [0] to the county jail. They let her go after a few hours, when the city cops found someone else who actually matched the description of the petty beer thief they were looking for.
[0] http://www.taxiwars.org/2017/10/ordinary-rendition-public-servants.html http://www.taxiwars.org/2017/10/ordinary-rendition-public-se...
Last month I learned (via facebook) that another of my passengers got arrested (outstanding warrant - he'd missed a court date 2.5 years ago), and is suffering in jail. He's a diabetic, and has to submit to the time-release insulin injection they think he needs or they send him to solitary... I think time-release insulin is probably quite harmful when combined with the jail's starvation diet.
It seems to only take a handful of people to start a government-racket. Thereafter they seem to basically keep themselves going, and it takes acts of heroism to shut them down.
- JetSpiegel 9y ago> I suspect "I don't make the rules, I just enforce them" is the general way to get good people to go along with the government's schemes. This did not go well in Nurenberg.
- e12e 9y agoBecause Germany was defeated (largely by Russia, who was promptly fitted as "new" enemy). No one has been convicted for fire bombing dresden, or Hiroshima and Nagasaki - or the fire bombing campaigns in Japan. No one has been convicted over nan king. No one (afaik) have been convicted of us support for the coup in Chile. There's atrocities to go around, only the weak at the international levek gets prosecuted. And while it didn't "go well" in neurnberg - it certainly helped nazi Germany meet many milestones.
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