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"If the state could use [criminal] laws not for their intended purposes but to silence those who voice unpopular ideas, little would be left of our First Amendment liberties, and little would separate us from the tyrannies of the past or the malignant fiefdoms of our own age. The freedom to speak without risking arrest is 'one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation.'"Tyrants don't like people who speak truth to power.
- Justice Neil Gorsuch, dissenting, Nieves v. Bartlett (2019)
The video itself is a six-minute strawman, presenting interviews with rocket scientists - as if they genuinely think that's what people mean when they refer to the deep state - then piling on insanely manipulative attempts to "humanise" the concept of the Deep State by talking about these guys' hobbies and interests.It Turns Out the 'Deep State' Is Actually Kind of Awesome
Comment: One wonders whether this potentially disastrous policy - which many debt-ridden European countries are facing - has anything to do with Poland's recently elected, questionable, government?
Note that this is also being considered at a time when poverty, crime, and societal unrest, is increasing: