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Should there be secret police in the first place?
by likeclockwork 1y ago
Should there be secret police in the first place?
- PicassoCTs 1y ago[flagged]
- kelseyfrog 1y agoIt sounds like you're saying, "Yes." Did I get that correct?
- PicassoCTs 1y ago[flagged]
- krapp 1y ago>>Im against ICE going for hardworking mexican immigrants - they have done nothing wrong but working hard! Islam though- has shown itself to be incompatible with western values and democracy wherever it incarnates- everything else can stay- but that religion and its anti-progressive, culture relativists supporters have to go. "Anti-democratic immigrants" who are, if I interpret your (now flagged, preserved here) comment correctly, all Muslims? yes? In other words, you believe that the practice of Islam in any Western country should be a crime and the police should be empowered to arrest and deport any Muslim they encounter? And that this is in line with Western democratic ideals and values?
- jacquesm 1y agoIt is insane that a country founded by people persecuted for their religion and which has enshrined this in the 'Free Exercise' clause of the first amendment tosses that overboard the second they don't like a particular religion.
- PicassoCTs 1y ago[flagged]
- soganess 1y agoDefine anti-democratic. I would describe a 'police force' that can forcibly and summarily deport people to gray market gulags run by a self-proclaimed "what-if-4chan-had-a-meat-world-avator" dictator as pretty darn anti-democratic. Especially when most Americans find that the current immigration policy has gone too far[1,2]. But I mistakenly think democratic means responding to the will of the people. [1]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/many-americans-say-trump-has-gone-too-far-on-immigration-but-remains-his-strongest-issue-ap-norc-poll-finds https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/many-americans-say-tru... [2]: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5425558-trump-administration-immigration-agenda-survey/ https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5425558-trump-ad... (I included The Hill article not b/c I think it is a real news source, but to get ahead of the whole "pbs is lib fake news" angle)
- _mlbt 1y ago[flagged]
- stonogo 1y agoThey've made that claim, but nobody's provided any evidence.
- nofriend 1y agoWhat purpose is unmasking them supposed to serve if not that?
- jacquesm 1y agoTo get their identity down so they can be prosecuted if and when the time comes.
- goda90 1y agoAccountability. Law enforcement officers should fear legal consequences for any illegal and excessive actions done while on duty. If the public can't identify them, and their co-workers don't feel an incentive to turn them in, then how will they face consequences? If they don't face consequences, what will incentivize them to follow the law and act with restraint?
- nofriend 1y agoA simple badge number would suffice for that
- goda90 1y agoWhich they are frequently not giving either.
- HDThoreaun 1y agoOk then they should have to prominently display their badge number