> And very little ability for anyone or any group of people from any walk of life to resist getting screwed by the government if the government chooses to screw them.

Sorry to break it to you but if the Feds in the US have it out for you, it won't matter how squeaky clean your record is. They'll fuck you up and ruin your life without batting an eye.

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mastermage 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Which is a great argument for Less Surveilance and Overreach.

	▲	MSFT_Edging 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Big time. The harder the feds have to work to ruin someone's life the better. The more power granted, the heavier the collar and chain should be.

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cucumber3732842 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There is a huge difference between the feds having it out for a specific person and the feds having it out for a whole class of people.

Society is not rich enough for the government to skim enough off of us to provide itself with the kind of resources it would need to go after every petty deviant or inconvenient activist the way they'd go after a mob boss.

	▲	MSFT_Edging 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They don't need to go after everyone. They just need to make an example of a few, ie 40 years in prison for "moving evidence". They set the example that even if you're not related to the person shooting the gun, or even at the location, you moving vaguely political speech is a federal crime.
	▲	archonis 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		>> and the feds having it out for a whole class of people Are you suggesting this is not happening with the goverment suddenly criminilizing the status of legal immigrants? (this is in addition to enforcing laws against illegal aliens)
	▲	notpachet 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> the way they'd go after a very inconvenient activist FTFY