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Due process was looking pretty anemic if you were black or left-wing in the 50s and 60s.
by AlexCoventry 8y ago
Due process was looking pretty anemic if you were black or left-wing in the 50s and 60s.
- jakelazaroff 8y agoDue process looks pretty anemic if you're black today.
- cestith 8y agoI'd say it looks anemic even if you're a middle class, middle aged white male. It's weaker if you're young, or black, or brown, or female. It's damn near dead if you're a young black male or appear vaguely Arabic.
- int_19h 8y agoYou can even be rich and politically affluent. I mean, this was "due process", warrants and everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor%27s_residence_drug_raid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor...
- AlexCoventry 8y agoTrue, but if there's anything today on the scale and invasiveness of COINTELPRO, it's not public knowledge.
- wnoise 8y agoCOINTELPRO wasn't public knowledge at the time, and many massive surveillance systems operating recently and today are known, e.g. PRISM.
- freyir 8y agoGood thing we leave officers to rely on their intuitions, their biases, and secondhand accounts, instead of video evidence.