> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

To the latter point, hundreds of comments in, and nobody has even brought up the intellectual curiosity angle of this (what limits are in place to the Federal government using data from Federal programs for law enforcement purposes? and does it matter if the program is administered by individual states?).

Instead it's just political rage bait, including citing the Rev Niemöller poem as if we're talking about Nazis.

(It used to be part of Internet culture that the moment you compared something mundane to the Nazis, you automatically lost the argument and were mocked mercilessly. We should bring that back.)