Right? Although according to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, there was a period after the Revolution, early on, where one could be sent to the Gulag for owning a piece of gold ... which, no doubt, were pocketed by the goons.

Now, it seems that Russian authorities are sticklers about consent, due to collective memories of that sort of arbitrary imprisonment. The people are also very aware, if there are corrupt officials, and they will report them to higher ups; not vote for them, etc. So, for example, authorities will not take a destitute and ill Babushka to a hospital if she refuses to go. Relatives cannot institutionalize their granny either (remembering the collective dobbing in of neighbors), because the authorities will not have a bar of it. This causes it's own problems of course, especially if the subject elderly persons become senile, and are living in freezing cold and filth - which gives rise to bloggers crowd-sourcing to help the elderly in remote villages (check: Vasya in the Hay channel on YT)

So, it is my theory that this sort of imprison everybody madness comes in cycles, depending on the ferocity of the mass formation that has occurred. J6 was an extreme example, and the perpetrators (i.e. the sick f@cks that caused damage, and shenaniganed the police and NG, ...cough ... Nancy) are still doubling down on the idea that the right are a bunch of Nazis and must be punished, even in the face of all the recent obvio revelations. One cannot argue with facts, when one is dealing with something that is close to a religion for such people. But, one cannot imprison even 100,000 people that walked around dressed in Trump memorabilia. There simply isn't enough space in the prisons.

The cycle of psychosis will end, IMO. After that, will come saner laws to prevent spurious arrests. I hope. The Constitution still means something, just that the cases take a little time to work their way to the SC.