DoD training manual calls protests low level terrorism

Just...no words. Truly, now we can be "disappeared" for quoting the American revolutionaries....

You don't construct a surveillance state unless you mean to use it. And the natural target of such a state is not shadowy foreign terrorists but one's own citizens. The same can be said about the militarization of the police and the dismantling of Constitutional protections.

I just wrote something on this over at Naked Capitalism but it fits well with this post as well:

I reminded of the observation that everything that was old is new again, also known as history repeats itself, those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it, and its variants, history does not repeat but it rhymes, what we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history, etc.

Anyway there are many examples in history of ruling classes which lose their legitimacy and in response to that loss expand the tools of state violence and repression to deal with vague enemies. Whoever these enemies are doesn’t matter. The real targets are the 99% wanting their state back. So it is that when you would know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. Repression is not about guilt, or, at least, not about guilt in its usual sense. It is about control. The surveillance state and extra-Constitutional security apparatus our elites are putting together is not directed at vague someones with whom you have and feel no connection. They are directed at you and yours. The comforting bromide that you are safe because you have nothing to hide is quite simply wrong. To those who repress, those in the 99% are guilty not because of something they did. The 99% are guilty because they are the 99%, and what they might do. We are from the point of view of illegitimate elites all future criminals, and to them a criminal is a criminal is a criminal.

We the 99% are the target, not some of us, all of us. The battlelines are being drawn and they are being drawn by the 1% and what used to be our government which they now own.

What makes you think there will be future generations of humans?

I mean, it's possible in a science fiction sort of sense, but it's not like they'll be able to read and write and remember what we did.