If you’re not familiar with the LEGO scandal, the tl;dw is that this YouTuber Reckless Ben (Ben Schneider) has been investigating a stolen set of LEGO worth ~$100-200k (depending on who you ask) and the local police dept and criminal justice system has been colluding with the criminals (all members of the local Mormon church) to get him to STFU. The long version is, very long. You can check his channel for more.
Previously the local police dept managed to get a warrant to raid Ben’s rental home with guns drawn and arrest him, based on what is clearly fabricated evidence. Here they appear to have done it again to get access to his Google account.
The linked video is mirrored on Peertube and timestamped to the relevant section.
Ben does also provide a copy of the subpoena in the video but I cannot vouch for its’ validity, and he has used placeholder evidence before, but that’s neither here nor there.
Anyway, the part that was relevant to this community was that in the course of their investigation they subpoenaed Google, and Google handed over basically his entire life to them. I’m sure this was very useful in their investigation.
I don’t necessarily blame Google here for complying with a subpoena, but the moral of the story is to stop giving Google your data, because everything you say and do can and will be used against you in a court of law, with or without legitimate justification, and the more stuff you give them, the more ammunition you’re providing the prosecutor.
This is also not exclusive to Google. Anything not local, self-hosted or encrypted a la Proton can be subpoenaed and the provider will have to comply. It just so happens that Google probably has more information about literally everyone in the world than any other particular entity.
For a series of incidents that have gathered international attention, it interesting to see the police and legal system double down on corruption. It like internationally advertising how crooked the cops are and how corrupt the legal system is to everyone. Do you want tourists to never visit? Because that is how you get tourists to not visit.
most people are sadly not paying attention
Most people are still ‘nothing to hide nothing to fear’ and I know some people close to me that insist that ICE and Trump are only going after the worst of the worst.
the people who understand what’s going on have figured out that what the regime means is “brown people are, as a group, the worst of the worst.” the people who don’t understand that are more vulnerable to believe that the face value is the truth
Except some of the people who told me that and still hang onto it are brown themselves. That is what makes their naivety more frightening.
Even seeing some people who could very well be undocumented immigrants themselves joining ICE such as the agent in a clip I saw of an ICE agent with a thick Mexican accent acting like he spotted a foreigner and was going to detain him based on his accent… when the guy makes Speedy Gonzalez sound mild, only makes this worse.
The Epstein oligarchy’s propaganda game has become so pervasive and self-reinforcing that it makes many brown people believe that the anglosphere’s unspoken understanding about brown people doesn’t apply to them and it makes them genuinely believe that they are part of the dominant group.
Worse yet: the Epsteins understand optics better than the liberals and it’s made those brown people the most powerful tool in their toolbox in all western liberal democracies – especially so for the white passing ones.
At this stage, It’s gotten so bad that it’s become safe to assume that white passing brown people are maga.
“First they came for everybody who wasn’t me, but they weren’t me, so I didn’t care and even helped them do it…then they came for me.”