Land of the Free, Home of the Brave

So the FBI wants to make sure that there are no miscreants making trouble at the GOP convention. They are even going so far as to have "scruffy looking" agents show up at activists' meetings in what you might call infiltration. And sending people around to question people whom they do not suspect of criminal activities. Sounds like the good old days. [article]

Speaking of the good old days, Florida state police have going around Orlando interviewing elderly black voters about unspecified criminal activities. The same elderly voters who remember the bad old days and are now reluctant to be active in getting out the vote, as they were before. The playbook changes, but the fucking game remains the same.