(Read this in Rod Serling's voice):
"Government surveillance, police abuse, SWAT team raids, economic instability, asset forfeiture schemes, pork barrel legislation, militarized police, drones, endless wars, private prisons, involuntary detentions, biometrics databases, free speech zones, etc.: these are mile markers on the road to a fascist state where citizens are treated like cattle, to be branded and eventually led to the slaughterhouse."
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_political_matrix_sustains_the_illusion_of_freedom#:~:text=Government%20surveillance%2C%20police,to%20the%20slaughterhouse.