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This is insane. Face tracking, body scanners, license plate tracking, TSA, cameras on every city street corner, militarization of the police, citizens united, a

This is insane. Face tracking, body scanners, license plate tracking, TSA, cameras on every city street corner, militarization of the police, citizens united, allowing police to force blood tests on DUI suspects, search warrants via text messages, police confiscation of property with no guilty verdict... In just my short 35 years in America the bill of rights are being steadily eroded. It feels like it would be super easy to get an truly authoritarian president in office who is able to lift term limits and assert control over the press and the America we know and love is no more. If you truly want to fund one organization the ACLU is the biggest one in my opinion. Without a free America everything else falls like dominoes

masonic 9y ago
"Face tracking, body scanners, license plate tracking, TSA, cameras on every city street corner, militarization of the police, citizens united, allowing police to force blood tests on DUI suspects, search warrants via text messages, police confiscation of property with no guilty verdict..." ... all of which were in widespread practice well before the current administration. The ACLU did, to their credit, blog about these issues throughout the Obama administration[0], although they got far less attention in the mainstream media or HN back then. [0] https://www.aclu.org/search/%22license%20plate%22?page=2&f%5B0%5D=type%3Ablog https://www.aclu.org/search/%22license%20plate%22?page=2&f%5...
- nickthemagicman 9y ago
  I'm saying in the last 35 years these have all become widespread. Not any particular administration... It's just a steady decline in civil rights. The ACLU blogs about a ton of amazing issues all the time. Their blog should deff be a periodic read. My current favorite is the scary election commission Trump tried to establish that kept all of its meetings secret..

masonic 9y ago

"Face tracking, body scanners, license plate tracking, TSA, cameras on every city street corner, militarization of the police, citizens united, allowing police to force blood tests on DUI suspects, search warrants via text messages, police confiscation of property with no guilty verdict..." ... all of which were in widespread practice well before the current administration. The ACLU did, to their credit, blog about these issues throughout the Obama administration[0], although they got far less attention in the mainstream media or HN back then. [0] https://www.aclu.org/search/%22license%20plate%22?page=2&f%5B0%5D=type%3Ablog https://www.aclu.org/search/%22license%20plate%22?page=2&f%5...

nickthemagicman 9y ago
I'm saying in the last 35 years these have all become widespread. Not any particular administration... It's just a steady decline in civil rights. The ACLU blogs about a ton of amazing issues all the time. Their blog should deff be a periodic read. My current favorite is the scary election commission Trump tried to establish that kept all of its meetings secret..