I’ve said it before: local police and other agencies act supportive because they need you to think they are. If they don’t show up for us when we need them now, they will never have authority in our communities again. No one will ever trust them.

Let me reiterate: THEY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO PERSECUTE LARGE NUMBERS OF DISSENTERS. What they are doing, instead, is using fear and paranoia as a force multiplier: they don’t have to persecute us if we keep ourselves home because someone told us we can’t walk in public without being terrified.