Replying to Avatar Bill Cypher

Just a short and VERY abridged list.

1700s, loyalist property stolen and the early "Indian schools" where children were taken from their families and placed into schools to attempt to train them to be more like the white settlers.

1800s, slavery, the fugitive slave act, and a constant stream of atrocities related to the native Americans. Remember that wounded knee massacre was 1890.

After that they really catch their stride and string new crimes together instead of stretching them out over decades so I'll go decade by decade.

1900s, the government sided with companies against people using violence against individuals to suppress IWW unionization efforts.

1910s, forced sterilizing based on eugenics.

1920s, prohibition violating the peoples rights and then used as an excuse to increase police violence.

1930s, Tuskegee Syphilis study begins though it ran into the early 70s.

1940s, Japanese internment camps

1950s, McCarthyism and the red scare used to violate civil rights.

1960s, cointelpro, Kent state

1970s, Watergate and the church commission

1980s, Iran Contra and the CIA selling crack in America.

1990s, Waco and Ruby Ridge

2000s, WMD lies used to justify 2 wars of aggression (remember the 911 terrorists were not from Iraq or Afghanistan)

2010s, Snowden makes mass surveillance public knowledge and Trump implemented an immigration plan designed to separate children from their parents.

2020s, we're only half way. The bad stuff we've seen may yet be overshadowed.

Tell me again why you trust the government?

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Vietnam, Laos, MKULTRA. Like I said VERY abridged. I didn't have 5 years to dedicate to writing a nostr post.

It is song where the guy names a bunch of random things of this kind. Your post reminded me of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g

Yeah yeah, so the government had some bad behavior before the last century, 1950s, and 60s, 70s, 80s, and the 90s, and oughts, and through to the modern era. But now, now the government would never do harms like that again, now the right people are in charge / will be in charge after we through the latest red or blue bum out.