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I have written before about the battle of Matewan, [stderr] which was a small engagement in what later was known as “The Coal War.”
This is the kind of shit that sits on the bench in Pennsylvania: [root]
There has been considerable discussion about what to do if Trump loses in November, yet refuses to leave office.
That’s probably too general. I mean, it’s true – but let’s focus more narrowly: Huawei.
Here’s a general rule: when the US government claims to be concerned that some other government will do X it is because the US has been doing X for some time, and considers X to be its sole prerogative. There’s seldom any attempt to justify its prerogrative as appropriate, merely a bunch of stuff about how bad it is for anyone else to do what we do.
Riots (excuse me, “protests”) are the history of labor in the US. Probably pretty much of the rest of the world, too. In the US, we’re not taught about them in school – instead we are taught that the police are basically great people, who are here to protect us, and the national guard’s job is to pull cats down from trees when there’s a flood.
None of that is true.
The US government, and others, have plotted to bypass protections regarding search and surveillance, by finely parsing the words of the 4th amendment and weaseling around them – but, mostly, by just ignoring it. Privacy is for the rich and powerful, not for hoi polloi.
I’ve been puzzled by the fact that nobody seems to be talking about where these “federal troops” have come from.
You don’t need privacy or secrecy, if you’ve got nothing to hide, right? I believe that’s how the line goes.
We are presented with a conundrum: