I'm a USA citizen, aged 76 years. The US has multiple political parties but we are essentially a two party system. The conservative party is called Republican or Grand Old Party (GOP). The "liberal" party is called Democrat. I put the word liberal in quotes because, while both parties have evolved, the Democrat party has evolved into something I don't recognize as associated with the Democrat party of two decades ago. Our Democrat party has attempted to develop "thought policing" and has weaponized our Justice Departments both Federal and State. This article about the retired officer being arrested sounds very similar. So why is this erosion of freedom of expression happening? In my opinion it is very likely to have originated with university professors associated with "humanities." Humanities isn't like mathematics or physics, I have a PhD in physics, where you can run tests of hypothesis and conclude, with a high degree of certainty, whether the hypothesis is trash or a possible explanation of reality. Attempts to test social hypothesis tend to have murky results that are difficult to interpret and are subject to prejudice. In many cases such tests must run for decades to yield any meaningful result. In my opinion, World War Two generated two unintended tests of social structure: East and West Germany, and North and South Korea. These tests ran for decades and the results are similar and damning for communism - "[A] political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society." Yet this failed version of socialism creeps into the minds of many academics because it seem "fair" I suppose. Why do these people think, "Oh! We'll do it right this time." Many in the Democrat Party of the USA are pushing toward a version of socialism similar to communism - hence the "thought police" movement and weaponizing of "Justice" for political purposes. I fear that Western Europe may be the source of this disease.