The one-week shutdown that followed 9/11 brought with it a massive reordering of American society. In 1999 we did not have secret courts and warrantless surveillance. No one thought the FBI and CIA would be conducting domestic espionage against politicians, much less trying to overturn an election

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This lockdown may last two years or become permanent. If the elites shut off the Internet and use checkpoints and roadblocks to starve the population, Americans will need to communicate like soldiers did during the Civil War to organize guerrilla attacks.

Did you really think DUI laws, checkpoints, seatbelt laws, car liability insurance laws, neighborhood watch groups, "get tough on crime" politicians, laws allowing mandatory minimums, IMBRA, 3 strikes laws, curfews, police militarization, teen boot camps, school metal detectors, private prisons, chain gangs, nanny state laws, the Patriot Act, NSA wiretapping, no knock raids, take down notices, no fly lists, terror watch lists, Constitution free zones, stop and frisk, kill switches, National Security Letters, DNA databases, kill lists, FBAR, FATCA, Operation Chokepoint, TSA groping, civil forfeiture, CIA torture, NDAA indefinite detention, secret FISA courts, FEMA camps, laws requiring passports for domestic travel, IRS laws denying passports for tax debts, gun and ammo stockpiles, laws outlawing protesting, Jade Helm, sneak and peek warrants, policing for profit, no refusal blood checkpoints, license plate readers, redlight cameras, speed cameras, FBI facial and voice recognition, tattoo databases, gun bans, the end to the right to silence, free speech bans, searches without warrants, CISPA, SOPA, private prison quotas, supermax prisons, FOSTA, sex offender registration laws, sex offender restriction laws, and the police state were for your protection?