• RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    403·
    22 days ago

    Agreed except for the secret police part.

    I feel like secret police are undercover cops who specifically enforce the laws or policy of secret courts.

    A cop posing as a kid online to bait a sexual predator isn’t “secret police” like the Stasi to me.

    • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
      171·
      22 days ago

      The Chicago blacksites seem like they would fit that description, they gave zero fucks about due process or civil rights, following their own law

    • Mesophar@lemm.ee
      102·
      22 days ago

      Agreed. Undercover DEA agent busting up a drug ring (regardless of debate about what drugs should be legalized) is a bit different from a task force suppressing political opposition through imprisonment and "accidents ". Though I’m wondering if the gap with decrease over the next four years…

      • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        9·
        22 days ago

        Count on it. I recall seeing videos of protestors around Trump’s last year in office getting yanked into unmarked vans. I think it was around the same time he was using customs and border protection to do peacekeeping operations.

      • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        33·
        22 days ago

        Therein lies the issue with Crying Wolf.

        When the real US Secret Police is established next year, the alarm will already have been sounded and will therefore be less effective.

          • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            33·
            22 days ago

            There’s a big difference between the Stasi and the FBI. Granted, the FBI has been known to occasionally do Stasi-esque illegal shit (most notably assassinating MLK), but that’s not their mission statement and what they do the vast majority of the time.

            Again, you will probably be right in a little while when Project 2025 kicks in, but at present you’re pulling the fire alarm because someone is unwrapping a toaster strudel.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      82·
      22 days ago

      To me secret police are plain clothes officers who drive ordinary looking cars until the hidden lights come on. They’re literally keeping it a secret from the public that they’re enforcing the law.

      • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        6·
        22 days ago

        That’s not a definition of “secret police” I’ve ever heard of, but you’re obviously more than welcome to think of it that way. Just know that’s not what the rest of us are referring to.