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often relying on getting a warrant post hoc or lying to establish probable cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

Here's a whole ass Wikipedia article on the very subject, because it's been so widespread for so long it has a fucking name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemisphere_Project

Here's a Wikipedia article on the mass surveillance by the DEA, which is where the data used for parallel construction was sourced.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805/

Here's a good example from the first Wikipedia article about how the Feds pass signals intelligence to local law enforcement so they can start cases and claim they found the initial evidence some other way than illegal mass surveillance.

For more history about attempts to install backdoors, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

There’s just so many examples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

Also, Greece had a national scandal where their phone system had legal backdoors added for wiretap orders, and someone broke in and published the confidential phone calls of politicians using the same system. The US is now dealing with a similar attack.

Go onto Techdirt ( here ) and check Tim Cushing's blog. His beat is the abuse and corruption of our justice system. The latest issue I recall was using drones to peek into fenced backyards, into windows and deep across property lines, all without a warrant or probable cause.

During the 2010s IMSI spoofers were being used but the Stingray corporation required precincts sign an NDE so parallel reconstruction (creating an alternative plausible path of investigation to lead to the same discovery of evidence) was the norm. Eventually defense lawyers learned to press the issue, as even FBI would drop cases before admitting they used IMSI catchers to spy on where a suspect's phone was.

One of my bigger beefs is the misuse of detection dogs, which have up to a ~90% false positive rate, called Probable Cause on Four Legs it's known that most departments prefer trick-pony dogs who just signal a lot, in contrast to dogs who can actually detect stuff.

Interestingly, there is a subset of the K9 sector who train and handle detection dogs (which are still legitimately used, say to detect explosives in long lines of luggage at airports), and thanks to the common use of dogs to force a search, the public has been losing confidence in them, and courts who believe dog searches are for real.

Turn off notification details. That isnt signal it is Android/Google.

That text just lists a set of comorbid traits of similar movements.

It's vague from author's viewpoint, but also quite specific as compared to how the word "fascism" is being used today.

I can agree there are regimes that fit there, but they are small. Nothing mainstream in USA is fascism. Putin's Russia isn't fascism. Even Turkey and Azerbaijan are not fascism. They all have fragments and elements of fascism, but that doesn't mean anything.

I think everyone is focusing on that mechanism too much, equating it to despotism, tyranny, evil and death. All of these exist very well outside of fascism. That something isn't fascist doesn't mean it's better.

That essay is about totalitarian regimes with cult of personality, cult of sacrifice and irrational youthful power, hierarchical structure, deification of technology, all that. I also advise you to read his "Foucault's Pendulum", a wonderful read, except with my ADHD I haven't yet finished it. Its atmosphere is focused on literal fascism and its roots, but the atmosphere of Stalinism (which I know better) is not too different.