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by educationdata 2542 days ago
How many are arrested because of mass surveillance captures the person criticizing Trump / Obama, Or the Republican / Democratic party?
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That's not how the way the US Government behaves. Publicly criticizing is OK.

If you want clues to who they really are insidious look at Cointelpro and how the police will incite peaceful gatherings into mobs to justify shutting them down and killing people.

You can stand on a soapbox and criticize until you are blue in the face, but try to make an active difference and you will be murdered like the Black Panthers.

This is not exclusive to USA. Since democracies can't indiscriminately arrest dissidents without appearing totalitarian, their workaround is disrupting those movements to criminalize them.

In Mexico, gasoline prices became unregulated in 2017. Historically, governments have made oil a very sensitive national issue, so strong nation-wide opposition was expected. Except it didn't happen. The strategy was simple:

1. Organized looting began almost immediately. Looters were organized by Whatsapp, being told the time and place of the next looting.

2. Police stayed put, and some even participated in looting.

3. The press equated the looters with gasoline price hike protestors. In their narrative, looters were protestors, and vice-versa.

4. Public opinion disapproved of looting, and consequently disapproved of protestors.

5. Profit!

Trump has wanted to change that. Like his friends in Russia, China, and North Korea.

I knew of the program you mentioned but not it’s name. Thanks for that!

Submitted it HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356021