I am passing this on from an anonymous citizen... If you read Naomi Wolf's book, The End of America., you will know the spot detentions and home seizure, like the Francisville 4, is always part of the pattern just before the totalitarian shift. Early detentions are done quite openly without torture. The silence of the masses is studied.
The door is opened for the next wave. Journalists, religious leaders, artists, teachers, and all remaining union leaders/ activists are added to the list of targets for detention. Much of the goal is to continue to send terror to the masses while escalating the silencing tactics on direct targets. Thugs and gang leaders are developed/recruited to serve as front line informants so enemies of the civic associations are rounded up too. The propaganda simultaneously terrifies the masses by insisting that the victims are actually the enemies of society, law, and order. Did you notice that an anonymous complaint from a good neighbor is being claimed by the blue shirts in Francisville? After World War 2, some nazis were asked why they didn't revolt in the early stages when these "spot detentions" were being used openly. As I recall the report, the respondents said it was easy to look away because the victims were people on the fringe. There was a naïve hope that these tactics would not be extended to the middle classes, so long as they behave and keep silent. (Torture then becomes acceptable for the early targets: activists, disempowered socio-economic classes, and "criminals.") The pressure to shut-up is building all around us, as the list of victims mounts. I think that the arrogance of the blue shirts and L & I in Francisville, and their delight with the "kidnapping" indicates that the next wave is beginning. As Ms. Wolf notes, the full transformation to totalitarianism happens quite rapidly.
