There is some truth to what Pan says though. Is this a total PsyOp by statists to get people nervous and show their hand? Sure, but what really are they seeing that the NSA et al hasn't already alerted to them? They know there are millions of patriots out there who will die with their boots on and leave smoking piles of brass around their feet. And they know anything they do covert or overt is not going to stay quiet for long, and so I think they have to follow a set of basic steps. They have to prepare the populace for whats coming, not all, just most, and they have to not let up on this on multiple fronts. Then they have to somehow decapitate the freedom movement heirarchy, not easy to do given its diverse and distributed nature, and it is here that we will have the propaganda BS Pan mentions - meth labs, cults, terrorist cells...whatever BS advances their agenda and fits the conditioning they've established. By the time they get to Joe & Jill Liberty they will be counting on chaos and fear. They'll be getting neighbor to turn on neighbor, friend on friend, co-worker on co-worker...family member on family member. They have to do the slow game or go fast and escalate to WMDs and live with the massive collateral damage in humans and resources and infrastructure.
I have always said if they are willing to go WMD on us, there is little we can do. But if they are willing to do so, why haven't they done it already? They won't till they have to? Squeeze a couple more years of prosperity out before going full Nazi? Perhaps. But the slow game seems to be the plan at the moment. 2-5 Assassinations a year (Breitbart) is not a purge.. its damage control. But I just don't see how they have time for the slow game. They have 10 years at most before the Fed Gov implodes under its own debt, and no matter how much battlefield preparation they do, 85% of the populace will put their heads between their legs when it starts, and do nothing actively to help or hinder other side other than to cry out "Why can't we all just get along?" -because they are incapable of comprehending the issues at hand.
The Govt is playing with fire with this class warfare rhetoric-because ultimately, the Government IS the class they are inciting these people to rebel against. There is no difference now between the "rich" and those running the government, and at some point one of the entitled monkeys is going to notice that.. and seek to replace this set of elites with a new set ( themselves of course! Who better?) So the government might end up expending resources on Martial law and riot control in the cities and have little time or care what those right-wing terrorists are doing.. ( mostly sitting in our homes, laughing)
Yes, they will run bit after bit about right wing terrorists, meth labs and cults, and perhaps stage a few attacks if they can't goad us into doing them. but bottom line, it ends with people being targeted and killed in their homes or places of business. If that starts happening en mass, with 2000-4000 high profile conservative leaders killed (at least the GOP is safe) then that is a purge, and the writing is on the wall. Will that scare patriots into line? Behave or you will be purged next? I suppose it might, but ultimately, you either fight or you are enslaved. It has the same chance of frightening people into action.. once they are obviously and furiously working down a list, and you know you are on it, why NOT go on the offensive?
While the NSA can undoubtedly identify everyone with Conservative political leanings, and probably make some good guesses about who MIGHT resist and die with boots on, I suspect that they can't narrow that list down to less than 10-20% of the population, even if only 3% will really act when the time comes. . That is 30-60 Million people - all armed, spread across 3.7 Million square miles, and scattered in with the troops you plan to use to execute this mission. Hitler killed 6 Million unarmed Jews over 5 years with a full police state apparatus in place. Mao and Stalin relied upon famine to kill off their unwanted eaters.. targeted purges just can't be done that that magnitude in a short time. Stalin authored the largest of such purges and victims numbered in the Hundreds of thousands, not millions. If we have 3 % willing to fight, and their targeting is 100% accurate, that still leaves them with a fighting mad army of at least 400,000 to deal with. ...and gloves would certainly come off at that point, and once such a thing happens, many will gladly execute every single Leftist they knew in retaliation if they survived into the next day. There would be no reason NOT to. Then it becomes neighbor against neighbor, co-worker against co-worker, family against family in a full civil war. And the outcome of such a thing isn't certain, especially if there is foreign involvement or a willingness to use WMD.
No, I really don't think they will attempt either a gun confiscation nor an outright purge of dissidents. If they make an attempt at a police state its going to be by trickery. Some manufactured "crisis" they can leverage that convinces "most" to comply with a police state.. but define "most" - 97% is most right? And the 9,000,000 people who are resisting because they are backed into a corner and they can't escape? What do you do with them? The left isn't good at math and they have enough hubris to think they don't have to be. I suspect they will just run the system into the ground and then abscond with the wealth they have accumulated, or they will attempt to "fool all of the people, all of the time" but won't have the success rate they expected.. and as a result, be executed in a quick and very painful coup. They simply do not have the man power to control the 3% who will fight to retain their freedom. I am not sure "control" is even their goal here. They just want to see the world burn I suspect. They want to see Western Civilization die and they trust that upon the ashes a Socialist Utopia will emerge. Its only capitalism and greed that prevents it you see.
Or if they desire control, they may decide they just want the Eastern seaboard. ( nothing useful happens in the flyover States you know. They are hicks and easily dominated..) They may carve out a little niche for themselves there, and just release the rest of us to our own devices knowing they don't have the resources to tame us, and figuring we are all dumb hicks anyway. . and create a place for that 9 million to run to at the same time.. They simply implement Marital law and purge in a small area and call it theirs. Most leftists are convinced the hinterland couldn't survive without their city tax dollars and enlightened guidance, so may figure we will be begging them to help and let us rejoin the Union in 10 years.
I am really beginning to think that Hubris will be their downfall one way or another, and as long as they don't come at us, we can just get ourselves out of the way as much as possible and let reality broadside them full force.