Police And Government Tip Their Hand: Major Investments In Riot Gear Signal Anticipation Of Widespread Crackdowns One interesting thing people consistently note about having lived in repressive, fascistic cultures and periods of time–think pre-war Nazi Germany–is how incremental and subtle the buildup of repression and government control was. Of course, history is littered with the opposite tale, times when explosive violence led to a new regime of repression being installed, but the old cliché about the frog in the pot of cool water not moving as it is slowly brought to a boil does apply in many, many instances.… Read the rest