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Re:US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance... by rayiner on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:41PM (#23357360)
> The ongoing militarization of state level police forces without the democratic consent of the governed for a start?

Are you living in the same country as me? The “governed” love this stuff, and keep voting for the people that do it. Civil liberties has always been something that has to be achieved through anti-democratic means.

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Re:US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance... by Barrin92 on Friday May 29, 2020 @09:03PM (#23357476)
Yeah don't get me wrong I'm well aware that there's a lot of public support for it. I meant the governed in the narrow sense here, the communities who are actually affected (and largely segregated).

Same goes for the policing. The amount of separation between the police and the policed, demographically, politically and so on is hard to defend.

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