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>Police demonstrated the power of a small piece of informationin the aftermath of Katrina when they went to the homes of legal gun owners and seized their constitutionally protected private property. All they required was a name on a list. It took years for those stolen items to be returned.

That's child's play compared to what these 3 went thru.
Mandella was in jail for 27 years.
Ghandi was constantly in and out of jail but he eventually organized massive peaceful resistance that chased what was then one of the most powerful military forces in the world, the British army, out of India without firing a shot.
Governments would like us to think otherwise, but they govern by consent of the governed and can find that out pretty quickly if the people want to act.
There are newspaper people in jail today because they refused to identify a source. That's quiet resistance, but it matters.