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[–]Tom_Bombadil 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I sometimes wonder if these are staged to frighten the public into compliance.

They have night vision cameras (multiple); recording from elevated positions; in multiple locations.

The cameras are recording the well-illuminated nighttime scenes.
There's no shortage of infrared LEDs shining at multiple angles.

Panning slightly to keep the focus of a viewers attention on the action. Professional work.

The arrests are probably real. Probably. The scenes actually happened.

But they planned it all out.

I doubt all of this could be prearranged without the family noticing.

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

All the world is a stage. If they can fake one instance, and it influences tens of millions of people, why wouldn't they?

And it doesn't even need to be fake, you just give equipment to police for free with the stipulation they have to use it in 6 months or return it. Then you create a requirement that they have to have footage of them using it in action in order to keep the equipment. Then you air that footage on the news.

Then all it takes is one hothead in one police department to overreact to something, and bam your police state has momentum and everyone sees it not being stopped or dealt with in any way, so it just continues to accelerate.

[–]Node 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's too bad Aussies gave up their heavy machine guns and RPGs. Otherwise they'd still have the ability to respond with a reasonable reply. Those police are the enemy.