Brian...I mostly agree with you, except... This is not a liberal vs. conservative or Democrat vs. Republican problem, and I think that pulling that card cheapens and distracts from what is happening with cases like with Kim Dotcom. Both Democratic and Republican parties endorse civil asset forfeiture at various levels, even though there has been a lot of doublespeak after Jeff Sessions recently tried to seriously bolster/revive it and there was that whole mostly bipartisan effort of pushback. The parties are not much different when you look at the elites at the top-- after all, they all sleep and play golf together. That may sound crass, but it is, generally speaking, true. There are neocons and neolibs in high places of both sides of the parties who contribute to candidates of BOTH parties, and whose goal is, ultimately, continued financial domination. It doesn't matter whether you're looking at Soros or the Koch brothers, for example. They're all the same, same basic goals, simply different strategies to an extent and different ways of going about achieving their goals... i.e, the entire point is to get us all bickering and fighting each other, so that they can basically scam their constituents right in front of our faces, knowing that each side has brainwashed enough of their followers that they ignore the obvious problems even if they otherwise mostly agree with their party's political leanings. We are much easier to control this way. I grew up in a conservative family, swing pretty liberal for a while, and after a lot of critical examination have landed just about in the Middle with the realization that both parties are full of crap and place bad judges, and make bad policies that have the end result, however well hidden sometimes, fattening up their own pockets while pretending that they care about their constituents. Both parties do it. And I think that until we all come to that realization, and kick the actual fascists out of both parties, we're not going to get anywhere. My 2 cents.
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Brian...I mostly agree with you, except... This is not a liberal vs. conservative or Democrat vs. Republican problem, and I think that pulling that card cheapens and distracts from what is happening with cases like with Kim Dotcom. Both Democratic and Republican parties endorse civil asset forfeiture at various levels, even though there has been a lot of doublespeak after Jeff Sessions recently tried to seriously bolster/revive it and there was that whole mostly bipartisan effort of pushback. The parties are not much different when you look at the elites at the top-- after all, they all sleep and play golf together. That may sound crass, but it is, generally speaking, true. There are neocons and neolibs in high places of both sides of the parties who contribute to candidates of BOTH parties, and whose goal is, ultimately, continued financial domination. It doesn't matter whether you're looking at Soros or the Koch brothers, for example. They're all the same, same basic goals, simply different strategies to an extent and different ways of going about achieving their goals... i.e, the entire point is to get us all bickering and fighting each other, so that they can basically scam their constituents right in front of our faces, knowing that each side has brainwashed enough of their followers that they ignore the obvious problems even if they otherwise mostly agree with their party's political leanings. We are much easier to control this way. I grew up in a conservative family, swing pretty liberal for a while, and after a lot of critical examination have landed just about in the Middle with the realization that both parties are full of crap and place bad judges, and make bad policies that have the end result, however well hidden sometimes, fattening up their own pockets while pretending that they care about their constituents. Both parties do it. And I think that until we all come to that realization, and kick the actual fascists out of both parties, we're not going to get anywhere. My 2 cents.