Zombies Are Us: The Walking Dead in the American Police State

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/zombies_are_us_the_walking_dead_in_the_american_police_state

while zombies may be the personification of our darkest fears, they embody the government’s paranoia about the citizenry as potential threats that need to be monitored, tracked, surveilled, sequestered, deterred, vanquished and rendered impotent. Why else would the government feel the need to monitor our communications, track our movements, criminalize our every action, treat us like suspects, and strip us of any means of defense while equipping its own personnel with an amazing arsenal of weapons?