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Is the U.S. a Police State? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Let’s look at evidence:

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Are you serious? It's illegal to just exist outdoors in the US? I think you're serious but that's just too comical to be real. Enjoying the sunset; straight to jail. Like what?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

American freedom is the freedom to oppress people on your property. It's individualist freedom not collectivist freedom

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Land of the free... whoever told you that is your enemy - RATM

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not generally, as others have mentioned, this is probably owned by the CVS and they want to discourage people from hanging around their store if they have no business with the store.

To the extent it is illegal, then it's in the domain of "trespassing" where the private property owner can decide you are no longer welcome. So if CVS "owns" that area, it may call on you for trespassing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

But first a CVS employee would have to tell you to leave. It's only trespassing if you don't leave after you're asked to, right?