I'm not gonna defend the position opposite of you because I hate scumbag regimes too, and they're always looking to further tighten their power.
My issue is that comparing this situation to a Gestapo-like martial law does a disservice to combating the problem because that's not really what they're trying to do at this juncture. US abuse system is more about keeping things quiet and hidden. Sometimes they can't though, like with OWS, and you see the pretty huge backlash that the obvious abuses in there have caused.
For example, military already has had anti-protester lasers for quite some time that are unbelievably effective. But they don't use them in the US because they're mounted on the top of jeeps, and if they did use them the outcry would be more than they want. Their strategy is about the abuses being less than obvious
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