US ambassador to Germany summoned to explain NSA bugging chancellor Angela Merkel

[Dr_Awkward]

You’re moving the goalposts of the debate. Since your original complaint was that

@bwv812

I’m saying that a lot of the comments here are not grounded in reality, and contain so little factual information or coherent arguments that they cannot realistically be interpreted as doing anything other than preaching to the converted.

But now you say

@bwv812

Do you really think that your suggestion that the ills you speak of are some sort of new phenomenon from “the past decade”? Is there evidence to support an increase in police militarization? I suspect, if anything, we are now more aware of—and more sensitive to—civil liberties violations by police than ever. You think that strict, “evidence free” drug policies are something new? If anything, we are now seeing them swing to levels of tolerance that have not been observed in at least 30 years. You think anti-abortion efforts are new? Do you think that prison collusion with judges is a widespread phenomenon?

So, are they not grounded in reality (your first contention), or have they been going on for a while (your second)? Cake and eat it too?