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All of these are abuses of power, and should be opposed. That said, I'm confident that there is no nation state on Earth that hasn't done these things. Please
by JabavuAdams 13y ago
All of these are abuses of power, and should be opposed.
That said, I'm confident that there is no nation state on Earth that hasn't done these things. Please correct me if you can think of examples.
The difference now is that they are affecting mainstream, middle-class, "normal" Americans.
While it's good that people are angry about these abuses, it also seems incredibly naive. This is what states do. This is what they've always done. This is not particularly more authoritarian than they've been in the past.
There was no glorious past. There were no good old days.
- a_bonobo 13y ago>That said, I'm confident that there is no nation state on Earth that hasn't done these things. Please, tell me one "first-world" country that has kill lists??
- madaxe 13y agoThe USA?
- rahoulb 13y agohttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/14/obama-secret-kill-list-disposition-matrix http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/14/obama-secret-ki...
- brymaster 13y agoWow, you need to pay attention more.
- a_bonobo 13y agoI can't edit my (old) post, I meant non-US-countries as the OP was implying. Does the current German Republic carry kill-lists? Nope.