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Patriot Act in the US, media raids in Australia and facial recognition in China helping with social credit scores show tyranny is everywhere.
History teaches us that this slow spiral to tyranny begins with small breaches of and changes to legal process.
Once the catch cry was a witch, these days a terrorist or a pedophile, but the march goes on.
When the invertible fracture occurs, a revolution of sorts, these jackboots will find themselves flotsam and treated accordingly.
Unfortunately, and by contrast with the scenario you give, both paedophiles and terrorists are demonstrably active thus providing a context in which paranoia can be turned into policy