Dr. Brad Rosenheim on Nostr: Hearing more and more about the police seizure of a newspaper's office IT equipment ...

Hearing more and more about the police seizure of a newspaper's office IT equipment in Kansas, and several things are becoming clearer than ever:

1. The US should not be entrusted to guard the free world. If local police are doing this, imagine what our military can do when it starts to favor the autocratic tendencies of this country over the wished of the people.
2. Police will also fall back on "we were just trying to keep you safe" excuse. In this case, they claim to be investigating identity theft. If you called the police about your identity theft, do you think they would respond this way? No. Do you think there is a way to prevent identity theft while allowing a newspaper to function? Of course. They are up to something else, but hiding behind the authority they think they deserve.
3. If the police continue to go rogue and militaristic, and they circle the wagons whenever they do something wrong, what value do they add to our communities? This question's importance is as clear as ever.

#Kansas
#FirstAmendment
#1A
#journalism
#fascism