Right, so, some activists and freedom fighters have been doing stuff in environments they know to be hostile for a long time, while the US has just started grow

Right, so, some activists and freedom fighters have been doing stuff in environments they know to be hostile for a long time, while the US has just started growing some movements like that after a hiatus from sometime in the seventies and eighties until somewhat recently. For now they're going to be making a lot of basic mistakes but eventually they'll grugq up and learn from people that are already used to dealing with the violence of their government.