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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-operating-illega...

> Two Arrested for Operating Illegal Overseas Police Station of the Chinese Government

And how many do your governments officially stamped thugs arrest? You don't even need to look up any stats to guess its in the ballpark of thousands or perhaps even the million per year.

Edit: example stats for 2016 sourced from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...

In 2016, there were an estimated 1.2 million violent crimes committed in the United States.[88] Over the course of that year, U.S. law enforcement agencies made approximately 10.7 million arrests, excluding arrests for traffic violations.[88] In that year, approximately 2.3 million people were incarcerated in jail or prison.[89]

Also, which steals more of your stuff, on average? This Washington Post article's title offers a clue: "Cops took more stuff from people than burglars did last year."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...

The article is from 2015, but nothing's been done to reverse the trend. I wonder what they've gotten the ratio up to in the last eight years.

Its almost tautological and by definition that your local government has legally granted power (might even say monopoly practically speaking) for violence and kidnapping over you. A distant foreign government has to expend great resources to do the same for you which your government would do with a stroke of the pen. Sometimes even without that thin veneer.

> tautological and by definition

That's redundant and repetitive.

If you want to be incredibly pedantic, something can be tautological without being part of the definition, and something can be part of the definition without being tautological (by way of contradiction).

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