If China, Russia or any other country target journalists its oppression and totalitarianism. If the US does it its not? This is alarming double standards by jin

If China, Russia or any other country target journalists its oppression and totalitarianism. If the US does it its not? This is alarming double standards by jingoists who do not believe in any values. FISA courts, secret processes, secret orders are completely arbitrary and undemocratic. You can't hollow out the very things that define democracy and continue to call it that. How does a secret court fit in a democracy? How does targeting journalists with secret courts and orders fit a democracy? Then what is the difference between totalitarianism and democracy? Threads on China, Russia and others are full of commentators lecturing others about democracy and human rights. How can you hold others accountable for the very things you are guilty of yourself, how can this kind of hypocrisy pass in informed discussion? It's this alarming dissonance, hypocrisy and complete failure to hold anyone accountable since Snowden's revelations that is providing cover for these kinds of shocking overreach. And in the absence of mainstream protest and activism it will keep getting worse.