More from the Gulag:
At what exact point, then, should one resist? When one’s belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one’s home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about any one of them individually — especially at a time when the thoughts of the person arrested are wrapped tightly about the big question: “What for?” — and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest.
It is true of many that the outrage inflicted by arrest on their personal feelings and attachments can be far, far stronger than their political beliefs or their fear of prison. A person who is not inwardly prepared for the use of violence against him is always weaker than the person committing the violence.
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Be prepared.
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A great question. I watch with curiosity as with the current power grab they continue to whittle the corner down. And as they do, more who stood firm falter and kneel.
One of the ideas I've begun sharing with others regarding this is if through no change in my actions one day simply living makes me a criminal, then I suppose that's what I will have to be. :)