For me, the truly unsettling thing is that it's being perpetrated as a terrorism-themed persecution, which means that the po-leece have far more powers to harrass you with.
They can detain you for several lifetimes without any explanation at all.
(... and for the benefit of the tape, I think that all policemen are very nice people who are seriously underpaid and deserve much more leave. Please don't lock me up, Officer.
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