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Re:Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard driv... by duncan_bayne on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @03:32PM (#11716600)
> I think when you compare the US government to the likes of Russia and China, you'll see that the US is really not "out to get you".

Have you any evidence that the US Government has changed their modus operandi?

Programs like COINTELPRO weren't public knowledge until some time afterwards, ditto "rendition" of terrorism suspects for overseas torture. Snowden has demonstrated that your Government still engages in widespread illegal activity.

I'd say the only reason such abuse seem "historical" is that we're unaware of the abuses going on right now.

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Re:Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard driv... by cpncrunch on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @07:23PM (#11718447)
>I'd say the only reason such abuse seem "historical" is that we're unaware of the abuses going on right now.

That's my point. The US government may or may not be mildly abusing it's citizens by spying on them illegally, it's hard to know. Compare to Russia or China where it most certainly is vehemently abusing people it disagrees with.

Also, I think the rendition was only for non-citizens. The US doesn't really give much of a shit about you if you're not a US citizen.

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Re:Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard driv... by duncan_bayne on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @08:52AM (#11721507)
Nope, it was for US citizens as well.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11...

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