re: “Interesting that this has never been needed in the past “
Was it not needed for the wackos in WACO?
David Koresh would go out of the compound daily for his daily run. But Clinton/Reno thought it was NEEDED to surroud the compund with tanks and then massacre the innocent children inside.
And how much protest to it was there? The same with those wrongly accused by the IRS. They go to jail and we murmur under our breath.
First they came for a taxpayer; we did nothing.
Then they came for a wacko; we did nothing.
Then they came for the protestors in a far off state.
Then they came for me. But they did not do to me what they did to the wackos in Waco. They put me in a re-education training camp where I became sensitive to the dialectical injustice of the pre-change social order.
Sounds like today's government schools.
the book I read said he went into town daily for donuts and coffee