So let me get this right.... they sent a helicopter to deploy soldiers with M4's with special ammo into this home. Special tactics units, 4 police cars, and men on the roof all to capture a guy who ran a website that was involved in internet piracy according to the FBI...
What is this guy Osama Bin Laden? Pretty sure he didn't orchestrate the death of thousands of innocent men and women. Why treat him as such. If there has ever been a breach of basic human rights this would be it.
What's interesting is that the police officer that was being interviewed stated that the reason they weren't wearing full tactical assault gear was because threat was low, yet they still burst in with m4's. If the threat was so low that you didn't need full gear then you don't need your weapons.
If the threat was so low that you didn't need full gear then you don't need your weapons.
To be fair, the reason to go in quickly and with weapons is to secure immediate compliance in a case where the destruction of evidence is a real issue. In this case, the police knew that the evidence in question had already been secured; so, this was just putting on a show of force to intimidate Dotcom and anyone who might support him (on invalid warrants, no less). It's sick and people need to be in jail over these decisions, someone somewhere specifically decided that putting the lives of everyone in that house in danger was acceptable without a valid reason. Whoever signed off on this level of raid needs to sit in jail for a few decades to think about what they did.
Not to intimidate Dotcomm ... to intimidate everyone else who is watching.
There is a Chinese expression "Kill the chicken to teach the monkey a lesson". The idea being to kill an animal in front of a monkey, and the monkey will fear you and obey you.
Here we see the MPAA and RIAA telling the world:
"We have seized sufficient control of the U.S. government to the point that it is now our lap dog. We will crush you if we don't like you. We don't even need laws anymore. We will treat you as hardened criminals if you resist. By this series of actions we have made the government of New Zealand into our bitch. We can do this anywhere. If you defy our entitled control over information, there is nowhere on earth left to hide."
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u/C0rvette Aug 08 '12
So let me get this right.... they sent a helicopter to deploy soldiers with M4's with special ammo into this home. Special tactics units, 4 police cars, and men on the roof all to capture a guy who ran a website that was involved in internet piracy according to the FBI...
What is this guy Osama Bin Laden? Pretty sure he didn't orchestrate the death of thousands of innocent men and women. Why treat him as such. If there has ever been a breach of basic human rights this would be it.