The Glade 4.0

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015 ... black-site

"It'll never happen to citizens, only foreign brown people"

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Said no one here, ever.

We'd all be better served by less use of hyperbole.


Eliza and the Guardian should take note of the "less use of hyperbole" hint.

I'm by no means a card carrying member of the Chicago PBPA, but lines like the OP's and Eliza's in the article are only effective in making rational people shake their heads and walk away. Those rational people, from that point forward, will likely ignore whatever grievance was highlighted by said hyperbole, every other time they run across it. The tactic the OP and Eliza use is, therefore, completely counterproductive.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Let me get this straight - it's an off-the-books interrogation compound (these words taken from the very first paragraph of the article) that has clearly-marked police vehicles in the parking lot, signs, people widely know where it is, and which sends people off into the normal court system and to regular precincts within hours?

Yeah.

The Chicago PD is generally known as one of the worst, but the fundamental premises of this article are inherently impossible - a municipal police department simply cannot operate any kind of "secret interrogation facility". Everyone here should be able to figure out why.

As Vindi points out, this article is the sort of thing that harms legitimate complaints by lumping them in with over-the-top hyperbole and outright lying. What's truly alarming about this is that anyone actually takes it seriously.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."