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"I am sure government will also target the Libertarians and anti-authoritarian people." This is a wild and extreme accusation with no evidence whatsoever. Welc

• dang 10y ago
  We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11586264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11586264 and marked it off-topic.
• Gustomaximus 10y ago
  It's not that wild when you read history about US government actions towards foreign/domestic organisations/individuals they deem have strayed to a point of challenging the status quo. The most obvious example is looking at how communism was treated post WW2. This I find amazing, not that I support communism, but that the government was so ready to act this way towards someones political choice, regardless of what that is. That's far from upholding democratic values. Another surprising one people dont realise if the CIA probably organised the removal of an Australian Prime Minister because he wanted to take the nation to a more neutral standing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis#Alleged_CIA_involvement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional... So feeling this is a likely monitoring point seems a reasonable statement to me especially on any serious anti-authoritarian activity. As for evidence, that's always going to be a hard one, whether its happening or not.
• tn13 10y ago
  It is not a wild and extreme accusation. The IRS is known to have targeted Tea party people. More subtle propaganda is already in action too: http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/02/why-anti-authoritarians-are-diagnosed-as-mentally-ill/ http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/02/why-anti-authoritarians-...