Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone

Re:Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let po... by ch4s3 on Monday August 01, 2022 @09:09AM (#32305412)

Odd that many of our recent presidents were not in the military, and that top generals are regularly fired by civilian government. The whole vote on everything all the time, even dog catch, thing seems like a real waste of time for a Junta.

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Re:Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let po... by boffinAudio on Monday August 01, 2022 @10:37AM (#32306567)

The Junta has a trillion dollars a year to do whatever evils it wishes to the world. I don't think any of the generals are going to be butt-hurt about being fired, especially when the revolving door between the CFR and the JCoS is so well-greased with the blood of innocent people across the globe. The goal isn't local power, that is a done deal - the purpose of the junta is the projection of global power.

The proof is in the pudding: Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, Somalia, Ukraine, etc.

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Re:Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let po... by ch4s3 on Monday August 01, 2022 @11:53AM (#32307859)

A Junta is an oligarchy lead by a military council. The US literally has civilian rule, you're misapplying the term. Myanmar has a junta, the US does not.

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Re:Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let po... by boffinAudio on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @03:27AM (#32316017)

>A Junta is an oligarchy lead by a military council.

The USA has exactly this, in the form of the revolving door that connects the Joint Chiefs of Staff with the CFR.

https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/

Its figureheads give the impression of democracy, but nobody voted to murder 5% of Iraqs population - the generals went ahead and did it anyway.

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