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What everyone seems to ignore, because the discourse is all so cynically partisan, is that lockdown laws are enforced by the exact same police and courts that d
by makomk 5y ago
What everyone seems to ignore, because the discourse is all so cynically partisan, is that lockdown laws are enforced by the exact same police and courts that do things like jailing black kids who never committed a crime. (Countries like Australia are definitely no better.) There was even a high-profile case in the UK where a police officer used the restrictions as pretext to kidnap, rape and murder a random woman who'd done nothing wrong and none of our the folks who'd been loudly campaigning to abolish the police questioned giving them those powers. Instead the press attacked our justice secretary for not criminalizing "misogyny"...
- pasabagi 5y agoDo you think if he hadn't had those restrictions available he wouldn't have kidnapped Sarah Everard? Surely he'd have just used something else?