So have we thought of how to react [View all]

if in the near future we are sitting at our computers and suddenly sites like DU, Kos, TPM etc. suddenly go blank and then we refresh and get a 404 or something? Maybe then we go to our phones and it's the same. So we flip on the TV and now we can't get PBS, BBC, MSNBC etc. and all we get is that black screen with the message from the cable company that the channel is unavailable. Now what?

So maybe another scenario is you want to do some research at your local library and you hit a security door where you have to swipe your library card. But what you get is a message on the screen that says your access has been suspended. So you push the intercom button and inquire with the nice librarian who asks you for the number on your card. She responds to you that your access has been suspended because you have been identified by Homeland Security as a subversive. Now what?

So to ponder all of this you go to the store to get some food and a six pack so you can go visit a pal and figure out what to do. Only now at the checkout your credit card doesn't work. So you go to the ATM to get the cash from your account only when you tap your card it says "Access Denied". So you call your bank and they tell you your account has been frozen because you have been placed on a watch-list for possibly contributing funding to persons or organizations considered to be subversive. Now what?

But since it's the weekend you go home and figure Monday will be back to work and you can figure it all out then. But early Monday morning you find a note on your door that your vehicle has been confiscated by order of Homeland Security because you are on a list of possible subversives who might use the vehicle in ways to transport other subversives to carry out subversive activities. But OK you call your pal to come give you a ride. But he says the FBI visited him asking questions about you and he was warned not to associate with you. So you hoof it to work but your boss immediately has security escort you out because the company got a visit from the FBI who has told them that you are on a list of subversives and if the company keeps you employed they could risk being shut down and having their assets confiscated for knowingly employing and giving funding to subversives. Now what?

So as you're walking along back home mulling the horrible last 48 hours you figure it must be happening to lots of others and come next election you'll all get together and vote these people out. As you walk up to your home and put the key in the door it doesn't work. But a note left to the side informs you that based on new powers granted to landlords you have been evicted because the FBI visited them and told them you are on a list of subversives and that if they didn't evict you immediately they could have the property confiscated for knowingly "harboring" subversives and possibly being a place where subversive activities are planned. Now what?

You walk down the sidewalk to get a cup of coffee and you pass one of the new "newspaper boxes" that carries the government run newspaper and then you see the front page story about a crackdown on voter registration and how it will now require proof of employment along with proof of residence. Now what?