It seems very much like they stopped caring about how it looks. Pretty much around the time the revoked Snowden's passport. We're through the looking glass now

It seems very much like they stopped caring about how it looks. Pretty much around the time the revoked Snowden's passport. We're through the looking glass now. Our governments (no Western government is exempt here) are operating in a way that closely resembles the regimes of the former Eastern Bloc, and they are making no attempts to hide it anymore. That's the scary part. Revoking a citizens passport? Blocking attempts to seek asylum? Forcing down a plane of a foreign, democratically elected leader of a country? Detaining the boyfriend of a reporter under false pretenses? None of this is happening in secret anymore. And it's no longer "them", the anonymous evil "terrorists", the "enemy combatants" that cannot be fought by conventional means. They've turned on us now. I wouldn't be too sure anymore they aren't planning to go "full retard". They obviously have no shame, and no fear of consequences.