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 You could 100x the amount of crime that law enforcement claims is happening and I still wouldn’t give a flying F. Start telling these cretins we don’t care, and they can actually do their jobs without 99.9% of the innocent world being subjected their prying eyes. nostr:note1pr8agz62040ruw42xcgs4gdzurm3ly3l2k4fwrq8rpww45465nyq0wfq89 
 The crimes they care about and the crimes we care about are not the same.

State law-enforcement monopoly only became a thing, in major urban centers, in the early decades of the 1800s. I think we can pronounce the experiment a failure from a "public good" pov 
 It’s is 100% a failed setup.