• hector@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    The public at large is getting exposed to what many of us already knew, law enforcement is fundamentally dishonest, and courts are rigged in their favor.

    People don’t realize the extent, it’s not here and there, it’s the norm, and anyone bucking the norm is drummed out of the system, or conveniently commits suicide, whether it’s two to the back of the head suicide or what.

    It’s not just ice, although they’ve been given extraordinarily overt support by the feds, to make precedents they can use later in unrest over them stealing elections and otherwise putting down protests, that is what this is all about to the feds.

    They want to set precedents on immigration because it’s the issue they have the most support on.

    But this blatant lying we’ve seen from the feds, this is standard procedure for all LE, it’s just more overt and blatant than usual. Hiding evidence, or mischaracterizing it is hardly new either.

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      When I was much younger, I had a couple of minor encounters with the police where they flat-out lied. I also had friends who had to leave town because of police death threats. Learning that in early life was a good education in just how fucked the system is.

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        People with no direct experience naturally give authorities the benefit of the doubt, all authorities, not just police. I find myself doing it the longer I go without direct experience, but I know better and have to correct myself. Not saying they are all bad or they will all lie to screw you, but for those they do want to screw lying is standard procedure, there’s a reason every defense lawyer says to say nothing in questioning.

        Anything you say, even if not incriminating, will be after they lie about it, say you confessed or whatever. You have to ask for a lawyer and decline to answer questions without one, but then if you answer any other question, be it your name, anything, say anything, they can say you then waived your asserted 5th amendment right you invoked. The system is rigged in their favor, because The Fear they stoked in the crime waves from the late 70s through the 1990s.