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Selective enforcement of laws to political ends is a hallmark of a police state. Also the US has the highest prison population per capita. If it quacks like a

Selective enforcement of laws to political ends is a hallmark of a police state. Also the US has the highest prison population per capita. If it quacks like a duck...

0x5f3759df-i 5y ago
And was there some great selective enforcement of the mask mandate to target a political group and lock them up? No. It wasn't enforced by the state at all.
- Sleepytime 5y ago
  And yet they have no hesitation to use the entire national security apparatus to chase a foreign national around the world for publishing some scientific papers.
  - 0x5f3759df-i 5y ago
    An American law enforcement agency requesting data from an American company is a far cry from "chasing a foreign national around the world". I think it's a waste of time as much as anyone else but Sci-hub is clearly against US law. Just because you disagree with the value of a law enforcement action doesn't mean you are living in a "police state"
    - CRConrad 5y ago
      > Sci-hub is clearly against US law. Sci-hub has nothing to do with US law. > Just because you disagree with the value of a law enforcement action doesn't mean you are living in a "police state" Uncritically buying one's national government's claim to global jurisdiction, justifying "law enforcement actions" against foreign citizens in foreign lands in the frigging first place, on the other hand... That seems to indicate some kind of successful indoctrination into a pro-police-state mindset.
GeoAtreides 5y ago
> the highest prison population per capita That's true, but the more horrifying fact is that it has the highest prison population in absolute numbers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2page1.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

Selective enforcement of laws to political ends is a hallmark of a police state. Also the US has the highest prison population per capita. If it quacks like a duck...

0x5f3759df-i 5y ago

And was there some great selective enforcement of the mask mandate to target a political group and lock them up? No. It wasn't enforced by the state at all.

Sleepytime 5y ago
And yet they have no hesitation to use the entire national security apparatus to chase a foreign national around the world for publishing some scientific papers.
- 0x5f3759df-i 5y ago
  An American law enforcement agency requesting data from an American company is a far cry from "chasing a foreign national around the world". I think it's a waste of time as much as anyone else but Sci-hub is clearly against US law. Just because you disagree with the value of a law enforcement action doesn't mean you are living in a "police state"
  - CRConrad 5y ago
    > Sci-hub is clearly against US law. Sci-hub has nothing to do with US law. > Just because you disagree with the value of a law enforcement action doesn't mean you are living in a "police state" Uncritically buying one's national government's claim to global jurisdiction, justifying "law enforcement actions" against foreign citizens in foreign lands in the frigging first place, on the other hand... That seems to indicate some kind of successful indoctrination into a pro-police-state mindset.

GeoAtreides 5y ago

> the highest prison population per capita That's true, but the more horrifying fact is that it has the highest prison population in absolute numbers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2page1.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...