Another week has gone by, yet we are still finding the aftermath of the past few weeks. The first, and most obvious, thing is I have found a few contacts of mine not being contactable.
A couple have managed to send short messages via message boards, limiting themselves to a short phrase or two along the lines of "alright, but keeping on the move". A number of others, however, have not been contactable at all. Most worrying, one who has... Correction... One whose forum avatar has been in use, with short emails sent out, yet with a tone that does not match what I know of them...
Police, or at least, people dressed like police have knocked at the door a few times... and these are definitely not the locals.
It seems like a few agent provocateurs are about... Most people I know, even with the local survivalist groups, aren't really revolutionaries. Very, very few talk in tones supporting major illegal activities; most aim toward personal survival, keeping themselves and their families alive - not overthrowing the government.
It's difficult to do major surveillance in a semi-rural area, though. A vehicle parked across the road is very conspicuous, when you can spend a day with only seeing half a dozen cars.
It does, though, seem things are quietening down though, and many of us have made sure that very limited evidence could be used against us... Most tricks that are known are too well known to be of use. Of course, it does mean a certain amount of learning has had to be memorised... Of course, what the government/judicial system/etc finds objectionable can be quite arbitrary. Simply having the Collected Works of Thomas Paine on one's shelf could be taken as being of Revolutionary or Treacherous Intent.
Bradbury was right, but perhaps of a limited range of books. At least for the moment...