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Does that suggestion surprise you? You are talking about an executive branch that is putting tanks, helicopters, and other surplus military equipment in the ha
by betterunix 13y ago
Does that suggestion surprise you? You are talking about an executive branch that is putting tanks, helicopters, and other surplus military equipment in the hands of local law enforcement. For decades, the executive branch has encouraged the use of plea bargains to avoid having cases go to trial. The soldiers who enforce our laws have been deployed against researchers who published the wrong books. Spies have been sent into peaceful anti-war groups. How would you describe the government that undertakes such actions, and then tries to amass even more power?
- sillysaurus 13y agoThe soldiers who enforce our laws have been deployed against researchers who published the wrong books. What? Spies have been sent into peaceful anti-war groups. That's been going on ever since the time of Martin Luther King Jr, and maybe before then.
- nitrogen 13y agoWhat? Probably in reference to the labs of an author of a well-known pair of oddly titled chemistry books being raided.
- bmelton 13y agoEven with these recent scandals, I find it somewhat difficult to categorize Obama's policies as right wing, but I was just seeking clarification.
- cmdkeen 13y agoClassifying such things as right wing is part of the problem. "Left wing" governments are just as capable of all sorts of statist, authoritarian activity. But saying it is right wing annoys right wing people who are liberal, saying it is left wing annoys left wing folk. Politics is more than a left right axis.