Are you going to ignore the very real world instances of when communist regimes used controlled opposition in that exact manor? Goldstein's based off of the real deal. Tens of millions vote R. Millions show for protests at the call of a man claiming to be battling communism. Tens of thousands look into Q and browse TDW. Thousands are capable of being very, very serious problems. And hundreads of them are who they're looking for. Ya know, if this is the case in point.

Military Tactics when handling crowds of any size is to pick out the few to focus on, the few that get others in the crowd riled up. Pick off those.

But such a crazy thing to suspect right? It's not like they aren't making lists and making use of them by whatever means necessary as is.