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Yesterday, like most people in erepublik, I saw the escalation of violence and police brutality against the protesters at teksim square in Istanbul. Unfortunately in the "war on terrorism" era this is nothing new, still one picture has crossed my level of general indiference that most people in democratic countries share.



This level of brutality and disdain for the citizens is something that is not expected of a developed country, but unfortunately is part of a general trend of escalating trend of militarization of police forces and the turning of countries into police states with a new form governance, the Democratic totalitarism, where people are allowed to only vote in their jailers and executioners.

The USA is now de facto a totalitarian country and has a homeland security act which allows the indefinite detainment without the need to put forward any evidence and without the right to legal council of anyone that is suspected for any reason to be in anyway connected with terrorism. Terrorism of course is not defined.

Yesterday coincidentally in Canada a new old anti-terrorism act was once again voted into place and while it is not as unconstitutional as the american homeland security act it allows for the "preventive" detainment of anyone without the onus to demonstrate any guilt for 3 days and to place restrictions on their freedoms without any guilt being proven for up to 1 year, it also allows for the summoning for questioning without reason of any one person and allows the indefinite imprisonment if they refuse to answer any question they're faced with. (in 1 year increments at the end of which a new Q&A session would be held).

Police tactics around the world are increasingly using undercover operatives to instigate violence at peaceful demonstrations so that the police can then use force to disperse those protests.

So today what I want to say is, that my solidarity is with the people at taxim square as I'm sure is of most of the ordinary people around the world. I hope they have the courage to stand up for their rights and continue to oppose the repression and violence that is being aimed at them.

A government that is not afraid of it's people is a government able to comit atrocities to it's and anybody else's people, so I hope Turkish people will make their government tremble and force the devoid of freedom of "speech" media's around the world to stop hiding what is happening.

Courage to you all and be different be yourselves.