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We are 'heroes,' says police chief whose force frisked a photographer

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Re: Power tends to Corrupt...

"Think about how hard they have to work just to terrorize us more than our own governments these days."

The whole point of the tactic of terrorism is to provoke the government into restricting the freedom of the society they are targeting. We only pay lip service to that putative war time slogan "Keep Calm - and Carry On".

The UK WWII identity card laws were only finally repealed in the 1950s after a scandal. IIRC A middle-class motorist was arrested for not showing his ID card to a policeman on demand.

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