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Not true at all. Governments regularly raid political dissidents. It's a disciplinary tactic in and of itself. I've been raided for plenty of shit and never been convicted of any crime.
I mean the average dork not cool people like you (if you're being truthful)
Persons of interest to governments should always be diligent.
My point is that raids are for the purpose of gathering evidence. The way it usually works is that the state decides they want to criminalise you for something so they search your place for anything they can use to incriminate youβnot vice versa, ie they dont already have enough evidence to incriminate you when they plan the raid.
I don't know about a majority of people, but with the rise of the far-right across many countries I think it is a significant number of people who are at risk of this, and I think it's rather short-sighted to assume only a small number of "cool people" are affected (thank you though). Like I am a nobody, I'm not famous, and there are lots of political organisers and militants like me you've never heard of being targeted for their political activities. You don't need to be a Snowden to have some degree of state interest in you, and most state repression (raids, incarceration, arrests, etc) is relatively cheap to dish out willy-nilly.
I think he's over blowing the 5 dollar wrench method.
Unless you live in a place where human rights are disregarded like every possible moment, they'd probably only resort to torturing you to gain access if they believe you are somehow connected or have ancillary evidence that points to you. IE that darkweb dude they tortured in Turkey to gain access to his encrypted laptop containing incriminating evidence.
Otherwise they'll just do a preemptive raid hoping that it leads to new information.
Like right now border patrol has been forcing foreigners to show data on their mobile devices to see if you have any roasted vance memes so they can turn you away. But in many cases, it has been done because they already had you flagged as posting or sharing roasted vance memes online.
Of course you could also always be in a craphole country where they'll torture you anyway, regardless if they have any reason to believe you are connected to something, but simply due to the fact that you opted to use FDE or any practical security scheme.
I know a nice middle aged mum whose house was raided by whatever the Australian SWAT team calls themselves at 2am. She's basically considered a public enemy by the government. And the worst she's ever been accused of is blocking traffic and using water-soluble spray chalk on buildings.
TOU/TORS I think they call them now days.