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America has had its overreaches in recent history - the Florida covid whistle-blower and so forth. I have to think that officials are hesitant to engage in man
by robbedpeter 5y ago
America has had its overreaches in recent history - the Florida covid whistle-blower and so forth.
I have to think that officials are hesitant to engage in many of the petty tyranny we see in other western countries, however, at a rate proportional to the degree to which their constituents are armed. If a police raid has a non trivial chance of turning into a shootout, it's a tool frequently withheld, and probably never used over a tweet.
The wrongful death process in civil courts would also destroy the life of any official who provoked a deadly raid over social media.
- PixyMisa 5y agoThe Florida COVID "whistle-blower" has been arrested at every job she has ever held.
- robbedpeter 5y agohttps://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/is-florida-covid-data-activist-rebekah-jones-grifter-or-hero-villain-or-role-model-liar-or-whistleblower-maybe-all-of-the-above/Content?oid=29505424 https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/is-florida-covid-data-... No she hasn't. She was a stupid kid and did stupid kid things, millennial style. She went through the legal system for crossing the line, but by the time she held the job for Florida state government - a decade later - she seems to have married, had children, found a respectable job, and was otherwise a normal human being. And she is probably mortified over the student/professor bad soap, stalker drama she inflicted on the world. At worst she was a psycho college girlfriend cliché. At best she's a redemption story, and good for her if that's the case. She never finished her degree, but still found a job as a data scientist, then blew it up because Florida officials wanted to lie. Have empathy and practice forgiveness, especially on people who did nothing to you. It costs you nothing to withhold what amounts to snide gossip.
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