Testing a Hexbear-like thread for sharing and commenting on news. Might become a weekly thing if people like it 👀
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You can say whatever you want and you’re free to criticize the government in wholesome western liberal democracies. /s
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/05/30/journalist-kit-klarenberg-british-police-interrogated-grayzone/
of course the police should carry semi-automatic rifles, that is definitely appropriate for self-proclaimed “law enforcement”, and it’s a particularly good fit for a crowded airport
It always weirded me out in foreign airports. Police with guns, just casually standing in the open. India, Cyprus, Europe. Pretty sure we don’t have those in le ebil totalitarian Russia
Yes yes, how else should they protect and serve the people other than shooting them
I am still shocked at how many cops there are out and about in Germany with fully automatic weapons in their hands ready to go. You’d expect it from Amerikkkans but not at a German train station or Christmas Market. Another one that has stuck with me was an entire group of soldiers with assault rifles and armored vehicles hanging out at the bus depot in Venice Italy.
the terror attacks in the last decades (such as the one in nice, or the bataclan, or many others) have been our 9/11 in that regard. The fearmongering that came after those was meant to justify heavily armed police (and in some cases even soldiers, i saw them in Milan) in public spaces just like the fearmongering after 9/11 was meant to justify the patriot act.
From in the last 10 years police and military presence has increased MASSIVELY across europe, and nobody noticed because at the time the media made it seem reasonable. And now the emergency is no more, but we sure as hell ain’t going back to how it was before just like the US never dropped the patriot act.