When we hear these stories, we never hear about the end result. We only hear about the act. It's like hearing a gun was fired. It was fired, but what did it hit?
The data that is in these databases have a high probability to be abused. Blackmail and intimidation are easy to hide. What number of the people that had their location data exposed through this database were shot soon after? What number of people had their identity stolen? What number of people lost their jobs? What number of people had their families or friendships destroyed by secrets being spilled?
The dots are never connected beyond the admission of violations.
Noteworthy that $2.6bln was allocated to US attorneys this year; not sure how much more was allocated to specifically support January 6th prosecutions, but the prosecution of every single one of them will hopefully serve as a deterrent.
> What about the prosecution of the law enforcement who literally unlocked doors, shepherded people inside, and then led them into chambers?
Several law enforcement and active military participants and collaborators—acting before, during, and after the highly visible events of Jan 6—have already been arrested and charged, most recently the MPD intelligence chief, but your description is a false characterization of what actually occurred.
> If you think Jan 6 was anything more than a meandering of useful idiots by a conspiring state, you are the other useful idiot.
If you genuinely believe this, you are just an idiot (maybe a useful one for the people who organized, executed, and then attempted to minimize the attack, but definitely an idiot.) Yes, most of the participants may have been radicalized sheep inspired and directed by a narrower group, but they clearly weren’t “meandering”.
>Several law enforcement and active military participants
Stop conflating protestors who happened to have unrelated government jobs with the suspicious and supportive actions of the capitol police who were supposed to be keeping congress safe and instead escorted crazy looking protestors around the capitol for photoshoots
Not to mention all the bullshit social media platforms that promoted the stupid conspiracies that led to the insurrection and even profited off all the "engagement" around it.
Yup. If all these useful idiot protestors are guilty of treason how the hell has their leader who told them to do it not been charged? The federal justice system is fake and political.
You can’t imprison people for constitutionally protected speech. The citizenry has to reject these people and reject the anti-intellectualism ethos they and their supporters inhabit.
As you point out, it's not most efficient path to resolving differences in America, but I can't say that forcefully pushing through police lines, breaking windows, and illegally entering the Capitol should be allowed to happen without penalty.
People make their choices, and they pay the consequences -- they're not puppets completely devoid of individual agency.
But yes, it's endemic in current American culture that incitement goes unpunished while action takes the charge. In politics, in business, and in religion.
If we want to solve underlying problems, there need to be more disincentives to whipping your supporters/employees/believers into a frenzy.
Just imagine the power someone would have if they were to tamper with stolen data _before_ leaking it. Nobody EVER questions the accuracy of leaked data.
GP might be alluding to the recent murder of a Mexican journalist, Fredid Román Román, who was shot shortly after (allegedly) being targeted by a Swiss surveillance-for-hire operator with Israeli connections[1]. As in, this is very much a thing that can happen to victims of (targeted) surveillance, and it was in the news recently.
The redcoats couldn't see the travel of every single person. They couldn't stop every person carrying a letter that had met with a certain person. They couldn't arrest everyone that had read a certain article or newspaper.
The tyranny possible today is far worse than the tyranny of a few hundred years ago
Many women with life threatening conditions get stuck waiting for the inevitable because they have already created evidence by going to a doctor. If anything happens to the baby without evidence of natural causes, they can be prosecuted. This has put women in a tough place.
To be fair, this entirely depends on the breed in question. There are some breeds that are known to have weak bloodlines, and some breeds that are better.
It is also dependent on the breeder. Breeders that "cheap" out will be more likely to have inbred dogs since it can cost money for a good stud.
I wouldn't be surprised. There are a large number of historical examples of human experimentation before 1975 when the Church committee did it's work.
I think these shady agencies figured out a new way to hide this kind of research after that date in ways that have made it much harder to show the world the truth.
Like every other tech company on the planet. Its a huge problem that society can't even begin to study because all of it is done in secret. It's also kept secret because the damage it would do to tech companies and the government would be huge
Kinda odd that this article is coming out with so many deaths of important crypto people. 3 Dead in November of last year, and a recent one a few days ago.
"A source who spoke to The Post on the condition of anonymity described Mushegian as a loner who lived with his dog, Sunny, following a breakup with the girlfriend he called a “spy” in his last tweet. But another source said there was “no way” she was a spy."
The sad truth is that it while it could be an exciting foreign-espionage plot line that made it into the public eye, the more likely story is he was suffering from paranoid delusions following a hard breakup and committed suicide. The latter is a sadly common occurrence, way more than the annual number of spook hits.
