Myanmar's Military is Now Arresting Celebrities Along With Politicians! Nearly 500 So Far!
(www.reuters.com)
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About the beta-test idea: the article says they've arrested 500 people total including 6 celebrities. Out of a total population of 54 million (source: World Bank), that's not very many if you scale it to the US. Good for testing public reaction, but not exactly a stress-test of the security forces. Still, crossing fingers...
In reality, the group of bad guys running things here is pretty small, probably less than 100 with any real power. The problem is that they are very powerful people who control what we see, hear, and think (in many cases, unfortunately).
Maybe. Word is there are over 200K sealed indictments, so that's a lot of people that have to be dealt with. I mean, MS13 alone probably has over 5K members fully capable of causing a lot of problems at a moment's notice. And, does anybody know how many BLM activists could be mobilized on cue? Even so, I'm sure the test is useful for many other things, like sounding out the general plan. We'll find out.
I respectfully disagree. If you scale it to the US population, which is at least 6 times the size of Myanmar, that would mean, theoretically, at least 36 celebrities and over 3,000 others would be arrested in connection with election fraud/inciting riots right here in the US...I think that would be a huge headline if that happened here.
Yet still only a fraction of number of sealed indictments
It has never really been implied that every sealed indictment is related to this operation
True, but pretty much everything on here is speculation at one level or another.
It would certainly be a big headline.