How can you allow these thugs to go around with masks and weapons?
When democracy failed in Germany after WWI and the government wouldn’t protect people from leftist thugs, people turned to the only people who would intervene to protect them - the brownshirts. The Patriot Act and similar post-9/11 loss of liberties was to ensure us our government would do the same - but instead they were just tightening their control over law-abiding Americans.