Scary Article

Excellent article. Thanks for sharing. 

I suppose all of us here are already on "The List."

Goes to show you how extreme the 2nd Trump administration is getting.  It's forcing libertarians (Cato Institute) and democratic socialists to make common cause against its excesses.

Viva occasionally gives me a "Gateway Timeout Error" or some such.  Happened today after reading this article.  Concerns me that the DOGE boys may have Denial Of Service attacks targeting sites like this ready and waiting...

> Gateway Timeout Error

Pretty sure the explanation for that is something much more mundane.

It's no longer important for the charges to stick, it's about the power and intimidation of the arrest 

>Pretty sure the explanation for that is something much more mundane.

This time...

Exactly, fish

The process itself is the punishment 

Another life time ago I was out protesting against draft registration imposed by Carter in response to Russia invading Afghanistan. I showed up for the march and I was the only person there protesting who was young enough to actually be effected by the new law. I met a guy there who was active in anti war protests in the SF Bay Area in the 60's/70's. One day the FBI stormed his house and went right to a place under his kitchen sink and discovered a bunch of weapons.

They were planted according to the guy -  he had never seen them before but that didn't stop the government from bringing charges against him that would have resulted in a 20 year stay. He said he got lucky with a judge who knew what was going on and they dismissed the case but not before the judge told him in open court that there were two political parties in the US and if he wanted to stay out of jail he better not stray off the path. 

It was a three day march with maybe 30 people max through NH and a van with mirrored windows shadowed us the whole way taking what we all assumed were pictures of us. So yeah been on the list for a long time, but it is worse now than at any other time in my life. That said I'm not too worried about the zone I think this site is as close to the dark web as you can get.