The above quotation is generally attributed to Stalin’s secret police chief, Lavrently Beria, who was relentless in carrying out his duty to eradicate those who stood in the way or were considered to be troubling or worse to Stalin The implication therefore of what this saying means is as chilling as it so appears, because it basically says that anyone so targeted can be found to have committed some sort of crime, and while we might think that is the way it was back in the Soviet Union’s heyday, therefore we need not worry because it obviously doesn’t apply to democratic Western nations, but this isn’t necessarily so. Indeed, the truth of the matter is, that we are currently in a construct in which this does appear to be the case even in Western nations, and certainly is the case for those that are annoying to the political power brokers of the age, who because these targeted people typically have minimal connections of their own, are thereby definitely susceptible to being arrested for a manufactured crime.
That is to say, those who are an annoyance to those in high positions of power, are not only easily targeted for retribution but the type of retribution that can be effected against them, ranges from shaming them through social media, or adversely affecting their employment by exerting pressure on their employer to do exactly that, or have the IRS or a similar type department investigate them thoroughly, or simply arresting them under trumped-up charges, such as disturbing the peace, obstruction, trespassing, tax evasion, or any other charge that fits the bill.
The thing about being arrested is that those who have little or no power or no real say in their governance are susceptible to being arrested, because they aren’t backed up by any other institution that could conceivably serve to protect them, which makes them vulnerable. As for those that have connections or are powerful in their own right, they too are susceptible to being arrested, of which, the main course of action to accomplish this is for those that are the true power brokers of the policing arm of the state, first doing their due diligence in order to find something that is suspect or could be considered to be suspect which will thereby serve the purpose of pinning a crime on that person.
To believe that all of us are safe, and that there is a true rule of law, which is faithfully followed by our judicial system and thereby is no respecter of persons, is to ignore the fact that far too many Western governments have devolved into becoming oppressors of those that they feel are in opposition to them, and have decided that the best way to deal with the problem, at hand, is to silence their detractors, through placing them under arrest. Indeed, this is an age in which the government, in conjunction with powerful corporations have a wealth of information about our everyday activities, and those who have that power are well able to dig deep and to thereby find something that is suspect, and this thus allows them to pin a crime on just about anyone, which suits their purpose exceedingly well.