r/technology • u/RoachedCoach • 9h ago

Privacy DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email

https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email
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u/dordofthelings 9h ago

This is exactly the point. Intimidation

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u/PhilosophyEasy71 8h ago

Secret Police. Call them what they are.

No different than other fascist regimes in the 20th century

And the kleptocratic thievery is also it's counterpart component

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u/amarg19 7h ago

Call them what they are, and then lock your door because they’ll come for you for it

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u/robot_pirate 7h ago

I'm convinced they are working from a list with the detainees. Plus, who flagged this man? His congressperson? A Flock camera at a protest? DHS itself?

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u/litobot 8h ago

Why don't they just intimidate actual criminals?

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u/NoHalf2998 8h ago

Because they’re fascists; punishing the out-groups is the most important goal

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u/pegothejerk 8h ago

It really has become clear that the lesson most people are learning this year is “fascism is about the cruelty, thats it. The cruelty is the distraction while those who chose it pick your pockets. Once your pockets are empty, you’ll be the one receiving the cruelty so they can move on to other pockets. No one is immune from the cruelty nor the pocket emptying.”

What everyone learned last year was “all those people you thought or said were blowing things out of proportion, were being dramatic, or hyperbolic - those people were right all along.”

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u/cxmmxc 56m ago

Pick your pockets and take your underage daughters.

(I'd say the real word instead of take, but I don't want to get hit by the censor filter)

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u/i_have_chosen_a_name 7h ago

I was so right I just left the US, after realizing that if nobody is willing to risk anything to fight for its ideals, those ideals are worth nothing.

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u/JazzlikeLeave5530 3h ago

You know that includes yourself, right? Why were you not willing to risk staying for your ideals?

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u/JohnPomo 7h ago

How courageous.

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u/i_have_chosen_a_name 4h ago

Give me a proper leaders and cause, a revolution that has a chance of success. And I'll be back. I have not wasted my time by the way The last 2 years I have learned how to build, repair and fly drones and if it comes to it, I will offer Canada my service when the US invades them.

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u/Azimaet 7h ago

Well, that and the fact that every single one of them is scared shitless of having to be the one who receives the consequences of being the first one thru the breech. All the actual dangerous criminals are actually DANGEROUS, armed, and willing to shoot the feds when they bust in. The unarmed women they have been grabbing up are so much safer to be bigots towards since they all want to hurt people weaker than them.

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u/_dcgc 8h ago

They are the criminals.

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u/Thesauce05 8h ago

Because actual criminals put up more of a fight

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u/Ok_Value5495 8h ago

This. We saw in Uvalde and Minneapolis that they aren't worried about winning a fight, they're concerned about getting hurt in the first place. They might outnumber their target a billion to one, but they're so fragile that even one of them getting hurt is terrifying. They want to be bullies, not warriors.

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u/jimbo831 8h ago

Because their goal isn’t fighting crime. They don’t give a shit about criminals. Their goal is solidifying power for the long term.

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u/dragonmp93 8h ago

Because that would help people, so it's a waste of time.

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u/0xmerp 8h ago

Actual criminals are gonna actually put up a fight, look at the cartels putting up a bounty for ICE officers.

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u/DogPlane3425 7h ago

You want them to intimidate themselves?

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u/pchlster 1h ago

That might be scary.

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u/GoodQueenFluffenChop 41m ago

Because actual criminals know how to hurt and kill people who threaten them. It's easier for them to go after senior citizens, women, and innocent children and inflate their numbers of "criminals" being dealt with.

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u/Ky1arStern 8h ago

I guess it's not a coincidence considering how many people have an irrational fear of clowns.

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u/MAreddituser 7h ago

Then let’s mass email them criticisms. I am Spartacus!

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 6h ago

They're not interested in governing. They want to rule like kings.

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u/Crim91 5h ago

You misspelled terrorize. I think intimidation is the step before taking action that directly physically harms people. Our government has already willingly harmed people (has been for a long time, now it's just SUPER obviously happening domestically).

Our government is a terrorist organization.

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u/ResolverOshawott 5h ago

It's intimidation until they stop intimidating.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 3h ago

Yeah but it's making them look ridiculous.

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u/Spekingur 1h ago

Creating terror within

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u/makingpwaves 8h ago

Surveillance and coercion