>>jbegle+(OP)
The CBP is also flying a federal Predator surveillance drone in Minneapolis:

https://twitter.com/jason_paladino/status/126639991697850777...

You can be reasonably sure it is collecting facial biometrics and perhaps IMEIs.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dzbe3/customs-and-border...

>>yosito+7E
I think the best/most common example of this is the Jim Crow laws implemented shortly after the civil war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

That Wikipedia article has a lot of detail in it that explains things well beyond what I could within an HN comment, but I think one example is "separate but equal" which was anything but equal.

>>yosito+7E
The parent is referring (not that accurately) to the variety of laws known as Jim Crow[1]. It's remarkable that these aren't widely if not universally known today. They were effectively eliminated by the Voting Rights Act[2].

Note, that Jim Crow was enacted not immediately after the Civil War but after the reconstruction period[3]. The aftermath of reconstruction involved a period of racist terror where the Ku Klux Klan and other forces effectively engaged in a guerilla campaign that restored white supremacy in the South.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era

>>yosito+7E
Some of these no longer exist, but some do:

Grandfather voting clauses: https://www.thoughtco.com/grandfather-clauses-voting-rights-...

Felony disfranchisement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_t...

Related to felony disfranchisement, the war on drugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_the_war_on_drugs

Gun control laws: https://newrepublic.com/article/112322/gun-control-racist

Literacy tests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test#Voting

Cash bail: https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/02/bail-reform-and-risk-as...

Stop and frisk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...

Some of these fall under the broader category of Jim Crow Laws[1], but most the original Jim Crow Laws are more obvious in their racism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

>>kerkes+AG
btw in florida the voters literally overwhelmingly voted for an amendment that re-enfranchised felons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Florida_Amendment_4

and republicans are still trying to subvert it by sneaking in restitution as a prerequisite. it was challenged in the courts, overturned, and now appealed

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/27/844297011/voting-rights-for-h...

check out this tweet

https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1264687609995026437

Edit: what exactly am I getting downvoted for? Did I post something that wasn't factually correct? Did I use foul language? Did I antagonize?

>>jbegle+(OP)
And a bunch of choppers:

https://mobile.twitter.com/SkyCirclesMPLS

>>claude+cF
Here's a concrete example from about a month ago: sanitation workers in New Orleans went on strike, so the state ordered prisoners to pick up trash instead. Quite convenient to have a bunch of laborers that you can order around. https://www.wdsu.com/article/livingston-work-release-inmates...

>>joe_th+xG
It's also important to mention the Black Codes[1], which were, effectively, a reimplementation of slavery that just didn't use the word "slave".

Many of these laws existed before the Civil War, and were simply "updated" to replace the word "slave" with "freedman".

Other laws cleverly redefined common terms, introducing technical language, so that they could claim that a former slave, forced to work for little or no pay, was "serving an apprenticeship" or "being punished for vagrancy". E.g., a slave in reality, but "on paper" an apprentice, a volunteer, serving a criminal sentence, etc.

Black Codes also severely limited the ability of black citizens to gather and organize, required impossible "literacy tests" to vote, and prevented black citizens from owning any type of weapon, either outright:

Louisiana: "No freedman shall be allowed to carry firearms, or any kind of weapons."

Or via a "may issue" licensing scheme:

Alabama: "Freedmen must not carry knives or firearms unless they were licensed so to do."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States)

>>jbegle+(OP)
Let’s not forget the agents provocateurs

https://twitter.com/rexchapman/status/1266146369905070080?s=...

>>ikeyan+qz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

>>tropdr+Sv
Support Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://eff.org.

>>rumana+1T
Example is a representative in the sate of WA, Matt Shea; He'd like to know who doesn't pass his fealty tests:

"The document, consisting of 14 sections divided into bullet points, had a section on "rules of war" that stated "make an offer of peace before declaring war", which within stated that the enemy must "surrender on terms" of no abortions, no same-sex marriage, no communism and "must obey Biblical law", then continued: "If they do not yield — kill all males"." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Shea#%22Biblical_Basis_fo...

>>calpat+B01
People might be interested in this which describes attempts to allow some prisoners in the UK to vote: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...