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->''"The ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' films are not really about the human race getting killed off by future machines. They're about us losing touch with our own humanity and becoming machines, which allows us to kill and brutalize each other. Cops think of all non-cops as less than they are, stupid, weak, and evil. They dehumanize the people they are sworn to protect and desensitize themselves in order to do that job."''
-->-- '''Creator/JamesCameron'''
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->''"Justice has a price. The price is [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill freedom.]]"''
-->--'''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''', "''America''"
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->''Apparently anticipating that the World Cup's queue lines will be populated by goons carrying rocket launchers and flamethrowers, the [[{{UsefulNotes/Brazil}} Rio]] police force has handed out 200 sets of a 22-pound "{{Franchise/RoboCop}" outfit (their word, not ours) of protective equipment. What comes with it? For starters, special flame resistance up to 427 degrees Celsius (you know, in case this happens) and a {{ComicBook/Batman}} utility belt equipped with pepper spray, a stun gun, pistols, handcuffs, and, of course, a special World Cup baton. The helmet and mask are inspired by [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] (seriously) to 'provoke a psychological effect on the protesters and ... make them jump down chasms while yelling "YOU'RE NOT MY DAD, we guess?''

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->''Apparently anticipating that the World Cup's queue lines will be populated by goons carrying rocket launchers and flamethrowers, the [[{{UsefulNotes/Brazil}} Rio]] police force has handed out 200 sets of a 22-pound "{{Franchise/RoboCop}" "Franchise/RoboCop" outfit (their word, not ours) of protective equipment. What comes with it? For starters, special flame resistance up to 427 degrees Celsius (you know, in case this happens) and a {{ComicBook/Batman}} utility belt equipped with pepper spray, a stun gun, pistols, handcuffs, and, of course, a special World Cup baton. The helmet and mask are inspired by [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] (seriously) to 'provoke a psychological effect on the protesters and ... make them jump down chasms while yelling "YOU'RE NOT MY DAD, we guess?''
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->''"What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge? But they tended to use the term these days as a way of describing people who were not policemen. It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians, the only other thing they could be was soldiers."''
-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''Literature/{{Snuff}}''
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->''Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.''
-->--'''Hermann Göring''', instructions to the Prussian police
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->I was about to make some smug joke about “what sort of fascist police state does Dustin live in where chalking a sidewalk is considered a ''crime''” but then I did a little research [[PoesLaw and it turns out it’s, uh, America?]] (Although the cops are apparently much more likely to enforce rules against sidewalk chalking when you use sidewalk chalk to protest police brutality, who could’ve guessed!)''

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->I ->''I was about to make some smug joke about “what sort of fascist police state does Dustin live in where chalking a sidewalk is considered a ''crime''” but then I did a little research [[PoesLaw and it turns out it’s, uh, America?]] (Although the cops are apparently much more likely to enforce rules against sidewalk chalking when you use sidewalk chalk to protest police brutality, who could’ve guessed!)''

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