Did they really burst into his home, armed -- arms drawn? -- and handcuff him in front of his children? Was that necessary?
I don't know enough about the case to speak to the charges themselves -- and I'm confident that, regardless of Xi's individual circumstances, there is plenty of espionage going on [1] -- but I have to wonder at yet another incident that appears to insist upon storm trooper tactics -- followed I presume by a publicity motivated perp walk.
[1] And why don't we pursue further all the production agreements where the Chinese use their economic leverage (politically prescribed and enabled cheaper production costs) to coerce domestic production as a condition of participation in their domestic sector and trade, whereupon they examine and copy the relevant technology, including supposedly restricted high technology components, wholesale.
Who's knocking on the door of e.g. the CEO of Hughes?
Who's publicly displaying those who've grossly mismanaged compromised high value information systems?
Each case like this just further disillusions me with respect to what increasingly appears to be primarily the Federal government's ongoing dog and pony show of law enforcement.
Back to the SWAT teams and perp walks. I no longer see quiet competence on display. Rather, more and more political grandstanding.
Armed raids help destabilize families, do profound psychological damage including PTSD, cause property damage, can render your home uninhabitable, lead to evictions, and consume resources that could otherwise be spent defending yourself, all before you ever see a judge. Bonus points for being able to directly punish the children and loved ones of the person you don't like, in some cases burning them with stun grenades, breaking limbs, telling them you're "going to fucking kill them", or otherwise causing them hardship in order to affect an emotional response in your primary suspect. If I were a sociopath trying to destroy lives extrajudicially and win/plea-bargain as many cases as I possibly could, all to further my career regardless of the person's true guilt, I'd do the same. We're fucking animals.
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Did they really burst into his home, armed -- arms drawn? -- and handcuff him in front of his children? Was that necessary?
I don't know enough about the case to speak to the charges themselves -- and I'm confident that, regardless of Xi's individual circumstances, there is plenty of espionage going on [1] -- but I have to wonder at yet another incident that appears to insist upon storm trooper tactics -- followed I presume by a publicity motivated perp walk.
[1] And why don't we pursue further all the production agreements where the Chinese use their economic leverage (politically prescribed and enabled cheaper production costs) to coerce domestic production as a condition of participation in their domestic sector and trade, whereupon they examine and copy the relevant technology, including supposedly restricted high technology components, wholesale.
Who's knocking on the door of e.g. the CEO of Hughes?
Who's publicly displaying those who've grossly mismanaged compromised high value information systems?
Each case like this just further disillusions me with respect to what increasingly appears to be primarily the Federal government's ongoing dog and pony show of law enforcement.
Back to the SWAT teams and perp walks. I no longer see quiet competence on display. Rather, more and more political grandstanding.
Armed raids help destabilize families, do profound psychological damage including PTSD, cause property damage, can render your home uninhabitable, lead to evictions, and consume resources that could otherwise be spent defending yourself, all before you ever see a judge. Bonus points for being able to directly punish the children and loved ones of the person you don't like, in some cases burning them with stun grenades, breaking limbs, telling them you're "going to fucking kill them", or otherwise causing them hardship in order to affect an emotional response in your primary suspect. If I were a sociopath trying to destroy lives extrajudicially and win/plea-bargain as many cases as I possibly could, all to further my career regardless of the person's true guilt, I'd do the same. We're fucking animals.
Not to mention the clichéd SOP, which might actually be SOP, of shooting the dog on sight.