You acclimate them to a state of martial law, carried out by soldiers disguised as police officers but bearing the weapons of war.
You polarize them so that they can never unite and stand united against the government.
You create a climate in which silence is golden and those who speak up are shouted down.
You spread propaganda and lies.
You package the police state in the rhetoric of politicians.
And then, when and if the people finally wake up to the fact that the government is not and has never been their friend, when it's too late for peaceful protests and violence is all that remains to them as a recourse against tyranny, you use all of the tools you've been so carefully amassing -- the militarized police, the criminal databases and surveillance and identification systems and private prisons and protest laws -- and you shut them down for good.
Divide and conquer.
It's one of the oldest military strategies in the books, and it's proven to be the police state's most effective weapon for maintaining the status quo.
How do you conquer a nation?
Distract the populace with screen devices, with sports, entertainment spectacles, political circuses and materialism.
Keep them focused on their differences -- economic, religious, environmental, political, racial -- so they can never agree on anything.
And then, when they're so divided that they are incapable of joining forces against a common threat, start picking them off one by one.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, what we're witnessing is just the latest incarnation of the government's battle plan for stamping out any sparks of resistance and keeping the populace under control: censorship, surveillance, battlefield tactics, military weaponry, and a complete suspension of the Constitution.
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