[morganherlocker]

> I for one prefer the rise of the police state. Have you been to China lately? Amazingly safe.

So is the US. Meanwhile, China is already using their facial recognition technology to track ethnic and religious minorities and is currently "holding as many as a million of them in detention camps" [1]. We have already seen the US government move in a decidedly nationalistic direction over the past few years. Begging for a police state in the name of diminishing returns on security is playing with fire, and we do not need to look far back into the history of the US or Europe to see where that can lead.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveill...