To be governed
Is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed
Legislated, regimented, closed in, indoctrinated

To be governed
Is to be preached at, controlled, assessed
Evaluated, Censored, Commanded
All by creatures that have neither the right nor wisdom, nor virtue

To be governed means that at every move,
At every operation or transaction
One is noted, registered, taxed, stamped, priced, licensed, informed,
Authorized, admonished, prevented, reformed, set right, corrected

Before I have to see it, the both sides arguments, that both extremes are equally bad

One sides extremists thinks black people were better off as slaves, wants ICE to rip apart families, and wants to accelerate ecosystem collapse

And one sides extremists wants people to have housing, healthcare, genocide to stop, and wants the planet not to become uninhabitable

If you are using Signal, and you are doing something the government considers illegal, the way they are going to read your messages about it is they will arrest the person you sent the messages *to*, and make your counterparty show them the logs. We know this because this technique came up again and again in, for example, the Jan. 6 court filings.

There may, hypothetically, be other Signal exploits available to a government, but this is the one they will use, because it works.

In case you missed it, acting ICE head Tom Homan was up yesterday complaining that ICE is having a hard time meeting the quotas they're setting because of campaigns telling people their rights and how to resist raids.

In case you're wondering if the little things you do could possibly make a difference, know that they already are.

EDIT: Link to quotes added:

https://www.themarysue.com/making-it-very-difficult-to-arrest-trumps-border-czar-supposedly-hates-that-migrants-know-their-rights/