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the problem with public trials and evidence probes are that figuring out networks of secretive people takes time and discretion. Even in domestic drug network infiltrations, the investigations may take years of covert operations and observations. That's just the shitty thing about all this. But then you have to give up vulnerabilities to get them. Vulnerabilities they exploit to operate. And when we transgress our open society, we illustrate the sham of a freedom loving society we are. That's what much of the world sees when we violate our own tenets. Much of our population manages to see our own actions in ways that don't transgress our values, but these are the choices we have to make in my opinion.
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"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." -- Abbie Hoffman
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