They’ve made it plainly obvious that revolution isn’t going to start in any outrageous or obvious way, LLS. There won’t be a Fort Sumter moment this time. They’re surreptitiously taking the proverbial rug out from under us. The media controls the dialog.
A few hundred of us are rounded up in the middle of the night, the headlines the next day will be something to the effect: “Obama Administration detains 100 for terror links.”
No details will be necessary. People read the headlines. Fear mongering. Meanwhile, we’ll be sitting with Bubba.
It will all be done very quietly and with reasonable efficiency.
While Joe Sixpack is chugging down a Pabst, eating Doritos and watching “American Idol”, a few hundred individuals will be detained as they leave work, or as they leave the grocery store, or what have you.
When Joe turns on the TV the following morning, he’ll hear all about how a coordinated effort between the intelligence services, domestic law enforcement, and the military “quashed a nationwide underground terrorist network aimed at overthrowing the US government and imperiling the freedoms we Americans have cherished for generations.”
There may be a few details leaked out, but not much. And later the same day, Joe will go back to his PBR and Doritos, and watch “CSI”, knowing he can sleep well because the terrorists have been rounded up.
The Germans in WW2 had a name for it; Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog) and one of my favorite Orwellian terms, “Schutzenhaft”......protective custody.
There will be no great hue and cry; after all, it’s only “terrorists”, right?