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It is not just about these cops, these doctors, or this judge. It is about institutional rot, a rot so wide and deep that to point it out will get you scorn and
by wissler 13y ago
It is not just about these cops, these doctors, or this judge. It is about institutional rot, a rot so wide and deep that to point it out will get you scorn and ridicule in most quarters.
- hga 13y agoI've often found a ... well, not denial, but a lot of people who just don't want to hear about it. They have no trouble believing it, but doing anything other than keeping their heads down and ignoring it is at this time impossible.
- wissler 13y agoIf most people don't have trouble believing it -- then that's not the real problem.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoWell, I know that the words "police state.." should be followed by something the police stated when discussing things like this, unless I want the discussion to end up with countless people pointing out that it is nothing like as bad as Russia was under Stalin, etc.
- caf 13y agoSurely "Well, it's not as bad as Stalin" is the very epitome of damning with faint praise?
- bulatb 13y ago"Don't be so dramatic," says the frog. "The other pots are all much hotter."
- maxerickson 13y agoI think the soft line for a police state is using the police to work towards social policy goals. So, for example, when you move from pulling people over for driving dangerously to having checkpoints.