If they want to hurt you, they will hurt you. At the very minimum they could invade your privacy by doing things like tracing all your internet usage through your isp in the hopes of finding something. This would not only be impossible for you to notice but pretty hard for you to stop. They could also just do like what the Truman administration did during the 2nd red scare and physically track you and interfere with your life in many ways. Like the US government did this before without any consequence so what would stop them from doing it again?
To quote a book I just finished
Hoover’s counterintelligence program gave official sanction to “disrupt, disorganize and neutralize” chosen targets. The first was the CPUSA, practically moribund by this date with fewer than five thousand members, some fifteen hundred of whom were FBI informants. The many tactics used included planted news stories alleging criminal conduct; anonymous letters and phone calls disseminating derogatory information, real or manufactured; hang-up calls, lockstep surveillance, and intrusive photography; on-the-job-site interviews; the questioning of teachers (if the target had children) and the questioning of the parents of the children’s friends; IRS audits; and planted evidence which would result in arrests. As new perceived threats emerged—the civil rights movement, the New Left, and black nationalism—COINTELPRO grew more violent, with talk of poisoning children, the sanctioning and encouragement of assassinations, and even murder.
On top of what’s listed here, the FBI also did “bag jobs” which was really just breaking and entering, trashing the house and trying to find anything of value or incriminating and just stealing it. So to modernize that a bit, an agent could just break your window and steal your computer anytime you’re not home without you even knowing it was the FBI that did it.
Another thing they did was denied passports (and freedom of travel) to anyone that the was labeled as a subversive or who they claimed disagreed with the American government, and that’s something which is happening right now if you are trans.
If they want to hurt you, they will hurt you. At the very minimum they could invade your privacy by doing things like tracing all your internet usage through your isp in the hopes of finding something. This would not only be impossible for you to notice but pretty hard for you to stop. They could also just do like what the Truman administration did during the 2nd red scare and physically track you and interfere with your life in many ways. Like the US government did this before without any consequence so what would stop them from doing it again?
To quote a book I just finished
On top of what’s listed here, the FBI also did “bag jobs” which was really just breaking and entering, trashing the house and trying to find anything of value or incriminating and just stealing it. So to modernize that a bit, an agent could just break your window and steal your computer anytime you’re not home without you even knowing it was the FBI that did it.
Another thing they did was denied passports (and freedom of travel) to anyone that the was labeled as a subversive or who they claimed disagreed with the American government, and that’s something which is happening right now if you are trans.