[Triple]

Free speech is one of the factors many consider for their “go” decision, but even with that as the measure - it is hard to decide when.

I would say these elimination of opposing thoughts happens in stages. (as do the other measures (gun confiscation, travel restrictions, targeted tax practices, targeted property seizures, EPA confiscations)

Stage 1 - Posters paid to influence/derail debate and discovery and marginalize people with certain facts or opinions. (We are without a doubt already at stage 1.)

Stage 2 - Technical/physical obstruction of dissemination of information and debate. (According to Sheryl Atkinson - beginning rollout.)

Stage 3 - Elimination of key nodes of information dissemination. (Hard to say, but there is some evidence that this has happened. Brietbart, Who died in that burned mercedes?, What about that couple that was prosecuted over TWA 800.)

Stage 4 - Overt malicious prosecution and conspicuous disappearances

Now, which one is your “go” stage again? My point is that is is really hard to come to the point that you raise the bonnie blue and push “all-in.” Perhaps personal encounters are the only universal trigger. Just look at the Jews in the 1930s- 1940s. They were not dumb, but too many peacefully entered the boxcars and camps - “Work will set them free.”

Never again, but exactly where is the line?

[Robert Teesdale]

You well grasp the question. For those that are forced to ask it, the question is not "if" but "when". That's the rough spot that makes us easy to herd.

Personally? I remember the seige of Waco in 1993. I remember Ruby Ridge. That's two.

I'm sanguine on State protests of necessity for public good.

[bgill]

Who died in that burned mercedes?

Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed reporter, Michael Hastings, who thought the FBI was targeting him.