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by WarOnPrivacy
903 days ago
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> The government, and any authority, should be mistrusted. Period. I mostly agree with that but we're talking about a response (mine) to a post, by someone who's communicating from the interior of an LEA. His narrative could be propaganda or false or curated by agenda or unhelpfully incomplete or meaningfully representative. We don't know which of those it is. We do know that communication outside of PR channels is useful, even if we have to heavily qualify it. And valuable info sometimes comes out of informal channels. We're not gaining anything by crapping on it here. Past that, we risk nothing by assuming good faith of the OP's post - even if our good faith turns out to be misapplied. No judicial precedence is in play. No hearts are swayed to dark sides. No mass readership is being fed a pregurgitated conclusion. No agenda needles get budged. In this place and at this time: We are safe letting one LEO-adjacent individual feel - well maybe not welcome but at least a lower level of mob noise. We don't have to put their haunches up by pushing back with everything we have. |
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Totally agree. This thread did go off the rails quite a bit. My main point wasn't actually even whether any one LEO can or should be trusted, I assume a vast majority of them are in the job with good intentions. My aim was more so at the power structure of any LEA or government in general, they should never be trusted IMO even when we're willing to take the risks of centralizing power for some greater good.