Anybody see a pattern here?

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. Opposing groups of protesters are separated from each other (SOP for decades).

2. Anti-* protesters are directed to particular zones -- the so-called free speech zones.

3. Free speech zones are restricted in size and accessibility, discouraging casual observers and less dedicated protesters from attending.

What comes next?

4. The protest 'cages' become actual enclosures, with a single, security guarded entrance.

5. The protest cages, surrounded by security forces and holding the most dedicated protesters, make it real easy to herd the protesters out of the single gate and onto the transports. Next stop, Idaho.

Or am I just being paranoid?

[Darkhawk32]

1. Not paranoid at all...

Pretty soon, they'll just sonic stun the entire crowd and throw them in the concentration camps that * has been building in Texas.

[ladjf]

3. How far is this going to go before those folks with "W" stickers

on their cars begin to realize what they have done?

[Darkhawk32]

6. It will go on until Doomsday, because they'd rather suffer and die....

than actually admit to themselves that they were wrong.

[ladjf]

9. Your good answer gives a rather good diagnosis of their

main cognitive problem. They are highly self-destructive, hell bent
on annihilation. That presents huge problems for the rest of us as well.

[ladjf]

2. U.S. Democracy is now in prison. We need a jail break.

[peacetalksforall]

4. No, you're not paranoid. The objective is to contain and control on all

fronts. If they contain and control news, if they lie, if they steal, if they call you a traitor, if they claim you have no moral values, if they operate secret sub-governments and agencies...if they have never really tolerated dissent in the last one hundred years...the question doesn't have to be asked.

Idaho? Maybe - Diego Garcia and Guantanamo are very small.

[zeemike]

5. It won;t be like that

They will kill decent by puing it down the memory hole.
the media will simply ignore for the most part, any protest and instead feed the masses that watch them other salacious things that they must be afraid of.
It's the Orwellian way stupid'

[ArkDem]

7. I just HATE it when they

kill decent by puing it down the memory hole.

[bloom]

8. It is pretty convenient

making the "zones" like temporary prisons.