"just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you". It's easier than ever for governments to monitor their citizenry, and there sure seem to be harsh consequences for those who demonstrate their effectiveness in altering the status quo. For every Fred Hampton there are a hundred good, strong, moral people who met a similar fate you never heard of. Dismissing their experience as mental illness is doing the regimes dirty work whether you're cognizant of that or not. Weird amount of activists dying from "suicide" or "overdose", some of whom I know beyond a doubt were supported and sober. We're having this discussion on a reddit splinter, Aaron Swartz for fucks sake