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originally posted by: HoldMyBeer
a reply to: Mandroid7
Well Man dude, he's said it before so, it's not a misspeak.
thehill.com...
A man who claimed to be friends with this neighbor said she did not report the packages and the behavior to authorities because she “didn’t want to do any kind of racial profiling.”
In Trump’s America, however, that woman would face serious consequences. “We need to make sure every single person involved in this plan, including anyone who knew something, but didn’t tell us, is brought to justice,” Trump said in New Hampshire. “These people need to have consequences, big consequences.”
originally posted by: AboveBoard
See Something Say Something is not fun to think about and it's annoying at the airport too, however, the scary part is to say people should be punished if it turns out they didn't report something.
That's where the line gets crossed.
originally posted by: MrThortan
It is this kind of thinking that turns a nation against itself, neighbor suspicious of neighbor out of fear of being prosecuted by the authorities. Every home shopper will be on a list after their weekly Amazon shipment comes in. It seems the motto of the modern times is fear. Be afraid of your neighbor, be afraid to go outside, be afraid of speaking your mind and having your own thoughts. By all means, if you see something shady and suspicious, report it, but if this is a mandate that all American's must do out of fear for their freedom, false reports by the hundreds of thousands will be called in. It would be a great success for the surveillance state, to turn American against American and have them doing their job by surveying each other. This is some serious 1984 business.
originally posted by: AboveBoard
a reply to: burntheships
Sorry, I misunderstood your POV.
originally posted by: AboveBoard
a reply to: HoldMyBeer
Exactly!!
People here like to talk about slippery slopes on all sorts of topics but somehow there's a bunch of folks wearing rose colored glasses with "Make AmericaGreat Again" plastered across them so they just don't see where this could lead.
What if someone thinks their neighbor's gun collection is suspicious? And he posts on this weird conspiracy site... Yeah, better call it in!!!