What the President Could Do If He Declares a State of Emergency
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I’m not too familiar with UK history, but I don’t think their government uses surveillance to target, threaten, or commit illegal actions against political activists in recent history. Alphabet soup agencies in the USA on the other hand were extremely heavy handed during our civil rights movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_undercover_policing_relationships_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Patrol_Group#Controversy
The police in the UK have a longstanding history, under government orders, of infiltrating and undermining protest groups, often with violence. There were also plans (referenced in Threads and other nuclear material based on real fact) to round up known left-wing and anti-nuclear figureheads during the 1980s in case of an escalation in tensions. Greenham Common was one of the many areas they intended to simply sweep through like a net and arrest everyone involved and ship them off so they wouldn't be a threat to "reconstruction" (IE the enforcement of near-feudal martial law bordering on fascism) after the exchange when the dust was settling.
Please don't kid yourself -- or any one else -- the police in the UK can be just as brutalist as they are in the US. While we don't have as big a cultural problem with the police as the US tends to have, there are plenty of cases of the police force here being misused to make a case for the government utilizing them as a sledgehammer in their goals.
this, It's happened a few times in the USSR when submarine or missile defence operators received signs that they were under attack and they decided 'fuck this, I don't believe it, im not launching this shit'
I'm sure the same thing would happen in the US
you're not a very good judge of character, in that case
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