The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working People

Re:The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working... by georgeecollins on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @02:19PM (#21651016)

ISIS was incredibly successful at beating an organized (although not great quality) military with small arms and improvised weapons. A lot of the military equipment they got was stolen. They really may have been able to take over Iraq if a number of foreign powers did not intervene against them.

I am certainly not an advocate of terrorism. But I think recent events show that it doesn't take a lot of arms for a motivated group to overcome a well armed unmotivated group. It makes me wonder what Hong Kong would be like now if 1 in 10 people owned a rifle or hand gun. Probably in the long run the situation would be much worse, but also maybe less hopeless.

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Re:The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working... by watwut on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:22PM (#21651693)

They have done that with army and army like structures, not just with terrorist tactic. ISIS in USA is limited to terrorist tactic and did not achieved all that much.

The argument I reacted to was about terrorist tactic being used to create deterrent against tyranny. Like, it talked about killing children on their way to school.

Because answer to terrorism would be more freedom or something.

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