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NOTtheMessiah · 3922 days ago · link · · parent · post: GCHQ and NSA intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide
Straight-up blackmail is not an effective strategy: Hoover failed to blackmail MLK back in the 60's. Their current strategy is to search everything you've done in the past, and find or make up a crime using poorly worded legislation, falsify the investigative trail as to be permissible in court, and threaten you with excessive prosecution, while you rot in pre-trial detention, hopefully milking a plea bargain to serve them political gain or have you turn in your friends. This effectively ends the judicial tradition of presumption of innocence.