Fake_William_Shatner

Are you in Russia or some place that Putin has influence or outside the country?

Same for Mike Myers, his brother in the RAF has the call-sign Obi-Have.

More generally, stopping Isis in the long term requires removing the conditions that allowed it to rise in the first place.

I think that's almost a rule of the Universe. Looking back on how the Bush administration organized the "peace" in Iraq along sectarian lines and didn't provide jobs for the large military seems like a recipe for creating blowback. Isis wasn't a surprise to me or critics of Bush policies -- it was inevitable.

Anyone with empathy who gets between the jack boot and the neck is a target in a "hard" fascism. Their enemy is truth and empathy itself.

They've always been abused by the police, even while the middle class was blissfully ignorant of it (which might sound familiar to American ears).

I was going to ask how you might compare it to US justice system in that regard, but I figure most people have to "experience the bad end" of the law to really understand the issue.

Everyone NOT on the short end of the stick can easily be happy about both systems.

But in the USA, if someone has decent money and there is video -- then they can't usually be railroaded into prison. That's the main difference I see; the brazen unfairness.