Here's how it works
1) go after people who have a bulhorn to let the masses know what their government is doing.
2) threaten them personally with criminal prosecutions
3) threaten their family members with criminal prosecution
4) If that doesn't work, follow through on those prosecutions with every power available left to abuse the process
5) Once a conviction is successful, you have frightened others, who have a bullhorn, into not reporting.
6) Things go underground, associations are investigated
7) Authorities start becoming paranoid and see individuals as enemies of the state
8) Round up people who have voiced concerns or have organized
9) make everyone to fearful to question anything their govt has done
This is the path we are now on. Only one way to stop it. Support those with the bullhorn, now.
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and that it's directly in the path of our country. The problem is, the surveillance state can flip into being a police state in an instant. This is how it begins. And it'd all be for our "protection".
When has an amassing of this amount of power -not- been eventually been terribly abused?
(Occupy) "You can see where the real center of power is in this country."
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/01/occupy_congress.php
"You can see where the real center of power is in this country," he said. "There are several thousand people here right outside the Capitol, and only like 50 cops. But when we get a few people down on Wall Street, the police response is crazy."
