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People with nothing to hide need not be bothered about surveillance, Supreme Court says
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The extent that pigs will go to in order to put literally anyone away should cause everyone to want to revolt/hunt all the fucking pigs. Too many people are completely fine with giving up all privacy if it "stops even one guilty person." No one is ever innocent 100% of the time. They just haven't been caught for things (especially super low level shit) and only think about big level crimes as being what pigs/prosecutors/feds are going after. By their own logic, they better know every single law at every second of the day. They truly can't conceive of being forced to confess just so a case can be closed to keep arrest stats looking good.
The recent-ish story about that one guy that was broken down so badly that he confessed to murdering his own father after so many hours of interrogation and threats made by the pigs to kill his fucking dog. AND they kept going towards that confession even though his father was found to be completely alive by the same pigs. That shit scared the shit out of me, and that is just ONE example out of the ones you mention and so fucking many others.
The biggest crimes are rarely prosecuted. White collar crimes that crash entire companies and cost people millions, or even billions, of dollars, probably causing more than one suicide and ruined livelihoods are simply 'whoopsies' nowadays. Even in the old days when they were prosecuted the penalties were light. Nick Leeson in the 90s was a rogue trader who singlehandedly destroyed Barings Bank in the UK. Barings was the biggest merchant bank in the UK, and like many British institutions it was very old and very established... they brokered the deal between Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon over the Louisiana Purchase, that's how old and influential they were.
But Nick? He fucked up an entire bank of massive proportions in a few years. All while trading in the casino that is the Stock Market in Southeast Asia. His penalty? A few short years in a fancy prison, and he didn't even serve his full sentence. His post-prison life was prosperous. He has (or is) managing sports teams, written well-received books, and overall is doing quite well for himself. Compare this to some teenagers who did some stupid vandalism out of youthful stupidity and ended up with records that haunt them for decades.