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It is a pretty good technique for expanding police powers. You allow them to do more stuff, but only when the level is high enough. Nobody will object because o
by ATsch 6y ago
It is a pretty good technique for expanding police powers. You allow them to do more stuff, but only when the level is high enough. Nobody will object because objecting to emergency measures looks bad. Then, whenever something bad happens you just increase the threat level. When you reach the top, "reform" the system to add higher levels.
- hankchinaski 6y ago>”reform” the system to add highet levels when did this happen exactly?
- ATsch 6y agoI was thinking about the French "Vigipirate" system, which I think has "lowered" the threat level by defining higher levels at least two times now. For example I remember a few years ago, the second highest color level, red, was declared to be the now lowest level, "Vigilance". It has never been that low again since.