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1. Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2018 23:13:25 UTC Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
   So here's a policy proposal for the next US administration: a Grand Repeal Act. Roll back all of the bullshit introduced by the last few administrations. Cancel homeland security and the TSA. Completely defund Gitmo so that they have no option but to close it for good. Demilitarize the police and ban their electricity weapons. No military hardware should be going to the police at all. Defund the NSA and cancel their bulk collection powers. Pull the funding from private jails.
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   • Stephen Michael Kellat (skellat@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 01:53:59 UTC Stephen Michael Kellat

     @bob 2 world wars have shown the USA that SIGINT is pretty necessary for it. Non-State Actors in Armed Conflict make Guantanamo Bay necessary as laws still haven't adapted to that particular horror. Taser is a genie that isn't going back in the bottle.

     Most of the "security" units DHS gathered were spread across the Justice, Treasury, and Transportation departments as well as the GSA. FEMA was merely absorbed. Shutting down DHS removes many normal government functions from happening.

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