I don't really like that people use "conspiracy theory" to make anyone asking suspicious question sound like a nutcase. There is a difference between people persisting in believing weird theories against all proof -- and between people seeing hints of something that could be building and pointing it out and interpretating it. Like mentioned -- that's making guesses based on empirical evidence. I mean, people were also theorizing that the nation spied on its citizens and people called them nuts and paranoid, and then we found out it was true (and then people just incorporated this in their daily life and did not care much more than that).
So with this sort of apathy, slowly edging towards ways of policing that resemble martial law is not out of the question. It's not like the justice system isn't fucked. It's not like the penitentiary system isn't fuck. It's not like the police force is not in many places corrupt. It's not like it's not already very fucked and people just get used to hearing different scandals and continue on, forgetting up to the next scandal.
So with this sort of apathy, slowly edging towards ways of policing that resemble martial law is not out of the question. It's not like the justice system isn't fucked. It's not like the penitentiary system isn't fuck. It's not like the police force is not in many places corrupt. It's not like it's not already very fucked and people just get used to hearing different scandals and continue on, forgetting up to the next scandal.