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If there is one thing that the events of the last few years has proven, it is that our government is hopelessly either incompetent or corrupt when it comes to protecting our citizens from being oppressed by the government, or republican nuts, or tech bro stupidity. What can we do to protect ourselves against the kind of overreach we have seen time and time again? Not much actually, the government of the US was deliberately set up to be immune to the beliefs of the citizens. But still it does not hurt to ask, well except that if you ask you will be put on various lists and have your life destroyed.
But why not? Unless you are wealthy, your life has been destroyed anyway.
Here is a short list of things we could demand and of course not receive.
1. In every movie, we always see that the US govt has complete access to all our private records, transactions, credit cards, driver licenses, etc. We can see that they do not have such access and any violation of this law requires that the law enforcement officials be indicted and tried for a crime that requires jail time.
2. Time and time again, some internal security force, whether DHS or FBI or other, deliberately underestimates the threat of white, racist organizations but inflates the threat of innocent non-organizations such as Antifa. When this becomes public knowledge, as it has in the case of the Portland demonstrations of a few years ago, the agents and management involved must be indicted and tried, and if found guilty, have minimum jail time.
3. The US can prohibit facial recognition systems used in this country and against American citizens. Those organizations that violate that rule and their management and agents must be indicted, and if found guilty, be sentenced to some minimum jail time.
4. The Republicans have perverted the law by filing baseless lawsuits over and over again. Fix this.
5. Any law enforcement official of the federal, state or local government who violates these laws must be prohibited from serving in any similar capacity in the government or in private industry.
6. Any tech company that violates the rights of its users or its employees should be nationalized without compensation and those who committed the crimes, if found guilty, serve jail time.
7. The DOJ must be required to indict members of government who are obviously criminals such as Trump and his minions. Failure to do so should result in dismissal and jail time.
This is minimum. More will be added later. Not all that interested in why you think morons like Trump should be exempt.
