Readit NewsFrankly, neither #2 nor #3 apply to a pile of cash in a safe deposit box (and who loans almost twice the median income to someone?!), and #5 is illegal.
But yes, big pile of cash is definitely a bad excuse for a search and a worse excuse for a seizure.
As far as number 5, you can't assume that's illegal either. I have a family member who's ex wife continues to commit identity theft and cause headaches for him 5 years after the divorce is over.
"freedoms can be taken away so dubiously even when not charged of a crime nor arrested in a system that exists outside the criminal system"
I'm sorry this happened to you.
Not defending it, but I don't think it's fair to say your experience represents some runaway extra-judicial outcome.
For better or worse, in the US, a judge's approval is required to detain someone in a psychiatric facility beyond an initial period (in my state it's 24 hours).
This is more or less the same standard we apply to people arrested for crimes, no?
I.e. you can be detained involuntarily for a bit, but they have to put you before the court or let you go.
Being involuntarily committed makes you a "prohibited person" and includes a lifetime ban on owning a firearm.[1] It wouldn't surprise me if there were other strings attached to having that on your record too.
[1] https://uclawreview.org/2021/08/18/pulling-the-trigger-on-am...
Back in the good old days, we were really willing to take risks--to cross oceans, even, as the op wrote--to do new things that could benefit our fellow human beings. Now it's all about "Oh no, this is a novel therapy that might infinitesimally increase my personal risk".
Really kind of sad.
I'm not sure how you arrived here from my comment. If I was willing to dox myself you'd see that I have probably taken more risks for 'the greater good'™ than you or even most folks on this site. But those days are over, and this whole situation is setting off all of my finely tuned alarm bells.
You should spend less time stereotyping and more time attempting to understand others.
Letting others do as they please is also a risk 'for the greater good', by the way.
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Now, big tech companies putting it everywhere, and either convincing the stores I shop at or my neighbors to pay for the hardware and slurping up the data - that is a real danger case. And those companies build off academic research like this. Even trillion-dollar companies don't do as much of this research inhouse as they do by sponsoring grants like this.
Nation states worry me precisely because I'm uninteresting. They wouldn't deploy hardware against me, but I'm under no illusion that they wouldn't use every mass-surveillance option available to them, including mass exploitation of commodity hardware.
I agree wholeheartedly with the rest of your post.
This will only result in those not living paycheck to paycheck being willing to speak out.