Status Updates From Tyranny Comes Home: The Dom...

There are other recent examples of torture in the United States. In early 2015, reports emerged of an off-the-books location, or "black site," in Chicago known as Homan Square, in which police were accused of holding and possibly torturing people. People claim they were held in stress positions, sexually assaulted, and held incommunicado without access to legal representation.

- p. 166

The drone chapter is almost as scary the torture one.

In other words, the DHS [Department of Homeland Security] created central bureaucracy with expanded powers related to domestic law enforcement. While many see this as beneficial to combating terrorism, it is problematic because such an agency enhances the ability of the national government to efficiently control the lives of Americans in the name of thwarting terrorism.

- p. 112 ~ p. 113

In general, powers granted to government in the name of national security tend to expand and evolve, seeping into facets of ordinary domestic life that gave nothing whatsoever to do with providing safety from foreign threats.

- p. 94

"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air— however slight—lest we become unwitting victims of the dark."

On the second to last chapter and good reads says I’m 53% done what a load of crap

“In one often-cited example, the town of Keene, New Hampshire, obtained a DHS grant for $285,933 to purchase a Bear Cat, an eight-ton armored personnel carrier. Keene has a population of 23,000 and has seen only two murders since 1999.”