The funny thing is that people see this shit and still defend the behavior that has plainclothes civilian cop harassing a Citizen on his own property for “suspicion of pre-Operational planning.” That simple phrase - as it relates to the government’s activities to curtail the inalienable Rights of the People to speech, to assembly, to petitions for redress of grievances, to arms, to their persons, houses, papers, and effects - and what I suspect for some will, over the course of today, include habeas corpus, the Right to a speedy trial of their peers, and the Right to not faces excessive fines or bail, and cruel,or unusual punishment - shows that these two “good guys” view the People at large as the enemy.
But no one wants to consider the ramifications of the police acting in such a way because they got a good cop buddy who promises not to enforce any of these crazy laws.
Nine out of ten will shop you in a train car and then high five his buddy for their low speed, high drag takedown of a “domestic terrorist” while they chase the high of Hero Worship that’s so closely tied to their fragile egos.
Only in the supposed Land of the Free would the People adore the very institutions which the Founding Generation fought 8 years of war and spend countless weeks constructing a framework of government desperately trying to prevent.