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hereitcomesagain commented on the blog post FBI Aspires to Be the Stasi
It is exactly true that we now have civil rights explicitly granted or denied on the whims of the Stasi. And just like with the E German Stasi, it is more often the career ambitions or coverups of incompetence and venality that drive what it does. They probably have 100 employees and 10 million dollars per year for every real terrorist, at this point. What are they going to do. They have to invent stuff or they have nothing to do.
As long as our elected leaders enjoy this “ethics are for wimps” and “rule of law is for losers” and “rights are yours if we say so” institutionalized corruption, what are we going to do?
