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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Fri Jan 30, 2015, 06:58 PM Jan 2015

Are Police Forces Becoming "Our Stasi"? There Are A Lot Of Disturbing Trends.

There are just too many inexplicable nasty events with our police forces. Macings, beatings, shootings fatal and otherwise and other mayhem with questionable provocation.

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Are Police Forces Becoming "Our Stasi"? There Are A Lot Of Disturbing Trends. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Jan 2015 OP

more something like Irans Basij juxtaposed Jan 2015 #1

Yes libodem Jan 2015 #2

No Man from Pickens Jan 2015 #3

juxtaposed

(2,778 posts)

1. more something like Irans Basij

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Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:10 PM

Jan 2015

libodem

(19,288 posts)

2. Yes

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Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:44 PM

Jan 2015

They work for the 1%.

Man from Pickens

(1,713 posts)

3. No

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:50 PM

Jan 2015

The Stasi never approached the level of surveillance we already have - they never even dreamed of it.

What we got now is something close to what you would get if the kids from Lord of the Flies were the ones running the show in 1984.

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