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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Aug 2017

    Recipe for police state: 1. Define new, extra-bad crime (terrorism, hate crime). 2. Expand its definition to include whatever you want.

    8:52 AM - 15 Aug 2017
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      2. Jonathan Hendler‏ @hendler 15 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Agree, but not new in US. Slippery slope started earnestly in 2001.

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      3.  🍳 🦋 💋 ABOLISH  💀 ICE  💀 NOW‏ @eggsbuttersugar 15 Aug 2017
        Replying to @hendler @paulg

        I'm curious as to why @paulg chose to include "hate crime" alongside "terrorism"

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      4. Jonathan Hendler‏ @hendler 15 Aug 2017
        Replying to @eggsbuttersugar @paulg

        1/2 Both "hate crime" and "terrorism", if not well defined and implemented, are easy to abuse. @ACLU works on this a lot.

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      5.  🍳 🦋 💋 ABOLISH  💀 ICE  💀 NOW‏ @eggsbuttersugar 20 Aug 2017
        Replying to @hendler @paulg @ACLU

        But in the world we actually live in "hate crime" is fairly well defined and important.

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      1. Yuri Barzov‏ @ybarzov 15 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Unfortunately, you are right 100%. In Russia we are living in such state created as you describe.

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      1. Wicked‏ @smartenupdummy 15 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        3. Create new laws that reduce freedoms in the name of safety or " law and order"

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      2. Will Charczuk‏ @willcharczuk 15 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        the issue wasn't that we didn't have laws that covered violent protests; the issue was the protesters were better armed than the police

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      4. Jonathan Howard but spooky  👻‏ @staringispolite 15 Aug 2017
        Replying to @mfrager @willcharczuk @paulg

        The problem space includes more than "did they shoot anyone?". The fact that police couldn't do their jobs is already a big deal.

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      5. Jonathan Howard but spooky  👻‏ @staringispolite 15 Aug 2017
        Replying to @staringispolite @mfrager and

        Also, it strikes me as weird to blame the crowd for being there when the nazi ran his car into them.

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      7. Will Charczuk‏ @willcharczuk 15 Aug 2017
        Replying to @mfrager @staringispolite @paulg

        they’ll seek out confrontation regardless

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      9. Will Charczuk‏ @willcharczuk 15 Aug 2017
        Replying to @mfrager @staringispolite @paulg

        See my original tweet. Also police approach white protesters much differently than protestors of color.

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      1. Daniel Rogers‏ @thecla923 15 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        E.g. Recreational drug use. Oh wait.

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      1. nicholas‏ @bloombergwriter 15 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg @nmgrm

        nicholas Retweeted The Guardian

        Where does targeting political dissidents fall into yr 2-step plan? Is seeking to jail protestors not an ingredient?https://twitter.com/guardian/status/897378384631738368 …

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        US government demands details on all visitors to anti-Trump protest website http://trib.al/1yaQ2z7 
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      1. JR‏ @SR71_JR 15 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Mis-read as "state police" at first and was confused

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      1. Jake Rockland‏ @jakerockland 15 Aug 2017
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        Don’t we already have this?

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      1. Kevin Morrill‏ @MisterMorrill 15 Aug 2017
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        We can thank 9/11 for giving us the TSA which every year eats up dozens if not hundred of lifetimes in wasted time.

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      1. Omar - عمر‏ @omarhommos 15 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        That's almost exactly how Syria turned into a police state ~35 years ago

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