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And you’ll never catch him.

I fear that our position is more like the American Indians. When we broke treaties with the Indians in say, Minnesota, the Indians took it out on new settlers, who had no idea that some guys in St. Paul broke the treaty that got them their land. The Indians didn't even know who the guys in St. Paul WERE< much less how to defeat them.

Look at Communist China, and its social numbering system. We are starting to do the same thing with private agencies. Google, Facebook, Lexus/Nexus, Experian/Equifax/TransUnion all collaborating with government bodies to at first ruin your credit score, intercept tax returns, then withhold portions of direct deposited paychecks for new infractions and social crimes, and finally putting liens on houses and freezing/seizing bank accounts as evidence of crimes.

The rules made to catch real tax cheats, "deadbeat" dads and drug dealers will be used against us, and the Constitution will be no defense, except for the bad guys.

That's my scenario for a breakdown with no good opportunity for a response.

Look at Communist China, and its social numbering system. We are starting to do the same thing with private agencies.

I agree with you. I'll go the extra step of believing we already exist in social stability rating databases. Regardless of the source data, our names exist somewhere associated with a score based on any number of triggering factors.

Did you take school evaluation tests as a child? Ever look at your post history here on free republic? Phone calls and emails are monitored by the NSA. Ever say or write key words that reveal your political leanings or belief that government is becoming too powerful? Internet search and media entertainment histories are kept by ISPs and credit card companies. Are you a frequent renter of movies like "V for Vendetta", reader of books on liberty / freedom, searched terms like prepper? Have you ever been in a school or organizational leadership role, played organized sports, been in the military?

I promise you, information like this is in a database somewhere. Combine modern psychological profiling, powerful computing, and extensive personal data collection, and every person can be fairly accurately categorized or scored. I'm fairly confident that we are not behind, but ahead of China in this endeavor.