A Nation of Snitches: DHS Is Grooming Americans to Report on Each Other
John Whitehead
“There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors.”
Professor Robert Gellately, author of Backing Hitler
Are you among the 41% of Americans who regularly attend church or some other religious service?
Do you believe the economy is about to collapse and the government will soon declare martial law?
Do you display an unusual number of political and/or ideological bumper stickers on your car?
Are you among the 44% of Americans who live in a household with a gun? If so, are you concerned that the government may be plotting to confiscate your firearms?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you may be an anti-government extremist (aka “domestic terrorist”) in the eyes of the government and flagged for heightened surveillance and preemptive intervention.
Let that sink in a moment.
If you believe in and exercise your rights under the Constitution (namely, your right to speak freely, worship freely, associate with like-minded individuals who share your political views, criticize the government, own a weapon, demand a warrant before being questioned or searched, or any other activity viewed as potentially anti-government, racist, bigoted, anarchic or sovereign), you have just been promoted to the top of the government’s terrorism watch list.
I assure you I’m not making this stuff up.
So what is the government doing about these so-called American “extremists”?
The government is grooming the American people to spy on each other as part of its Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, or CP3 program.
According to journalist Leo Hohmann, the government is handing out $20 million in grants to police, mental health networks, universities, churches and school districts to enlist their help in identifying Americans who might be political dissidents or potential “extremists.”
As Hohmann explains, “Whether it’s COVID and vaccines, the war in Ukraine, immigration, the Second Amendment, LGBTQ ideology and child-gender confusion, the integrity of our elections, or the issue of protecting life in the womb, you are no longer allowed to hold dissenting opinions and voice them publicly in America. If you do, your own government will take note and consider you a potential ‘violent extremist’ and terrorist.”
Cue the dawning of the Snitch State.
This new era of snitch surveillance is the lovechild of the government’s post-9/11 “See Something, Say Something” programs combined with the self-righteousness of a politically correct, hyper-vigilant, technologically-wired age.
For more than two decades, the Department of Homeland Security has plastered its “See Something, Say Something” campaign on the walls of metro stations, on billboards, on coffee cup sleeves, at the Super Bowl, even on television monitors in the Statue of Liberty. Colleges, universities and even football teams and sporting arenas have lined up for grants to participate in the program.
The government has even designated September 25 as National “If You See Something, Say Something” Awareness Day.
If you see something suspicious, says the DHS, say something about it to the police, call it in to a government hotline, or report it using a convenient app on your smart phone.
This DHS slogan is nothing more than the government’s way of indoctrinating “we the people” into the mindset that we’re an extension of the government and, as such, have a patriotic duty to be suspicious of, spy on, and turn in our fellow citizens.
This is what is commonly referred to as community policing.
Yet while community policing and federal programs such as “See Something, Say Something” are sold to the public as patriotic attempts to be on guard against those who would harm us, they are little more than totalitarian tactics dressed up and repackaged for a more modern audience as well-intentioned appeals to law and order and security.
The police state could not ask for a better citizenry than one that carries out its own policing.
After all, the police can’t be everywhere. So how do you police a nation when your population outnumbers your army of soldiers? How do you carry out surveillance on a nation when there aren’t enough cameras, let alone viewers, to monitor every square inch of the country 24/7? How do you not only track but analyze the transactions, interactions and movements of every person within the United States?
The answer is simpler than it seems: You persuade the citizenry to be your eyes and ears. You hype them up on color-coded “Terror alerts,” keep them in the dark about the distinctions between actual threats and staged “training” drills so that all crises seem real, desensitize them to the sight of militarized police walking their streets, acclimatize them to being surveilled “for their own good,” and then indoctrinate them into thinking that they are the only ones who can save the nation from another 9/11.
Consequently, we now live in a society in which a person can be accused of any number of crimes without knowing what exactly he has done. He might be apprehended in the middle of the night by a roving band of SWAT police. He might find himself on a no-fly list, unable to travel for reasons undisclosed. He might have his phones or internet tapped based upon a secret order handed down by a secret court, with no recourse to discover why he was targeted.
This Kafkaesque nightmare has become America’s reality.
This is how you turn a people into extensions of the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent police state, and in the process turn a citizenry against each other.
It’s a brilliant ploy, with the added bonus that while the citizenry remains focused on and distrustful of each other and shadowy forces from outside the country, they’re incapable of focusing on more definable threats that fall closer to home—namely, the government and its cabal of Constitution-destroying agencies and corporate partners.
Community policing did not come about as a feel-good, empowering response to individuals trying to “take back” their communities from crime syndicates and drug lords.
Rather, “Community-Oriented Policing” or COPS (short for Community Partnerships, Organizational Transformation, and Problem Solving) is a Department of Justice program designed to foster partnerships between police agencies and members of the community.
To this end, the Justice Department identifies five distinct “partners” in the community policing scheme: law enforcement and other government agencies, community members and groups, nonprofits, churches and service providers, private businesses and the media.
Together, these groups are supposed to “identify” community concerns, “engage” the community in achieving specific goals, serve as “powerful” partners with the government, and add their “considerable resources” to the government’s already massive arsenal of technology and intelligence. The mainstream media’s role, long recognized as being a mouthpiece for the government, is formally recognized as “publicizing” services from government or community agencies or new laws or codes that will be enforced, as well as shaping public perceptions of the police, crime problems, and fear of crime.
Inevitably, this begs the question: if there’s nothing wrong with community engagement, if the police can’t be everywhere at once, if surveillance cameras do little to actually prevent crime, and if we need to “take back our communities” from the crime syndicates and drug lords, then what’s wrong with community policing and “See Something, Say Something”?
What’s wrong is that these programs are not, in fact, making America any safer while turning us into a legalistic, intolerant, squealing, bystander nation.
We are now the unwitting victims of an interconnected, tightly woven, technologically evolving web of real-time, warrantless, wall-to-wall, widening mass surveillance dragnet comprised of fusion centers, red flag laws, behavioral threat assessments, terror watch lists, facial recognition, snitch tip lines, biometric scanners, pre-crime programs, DNA databases, data mining, precognitive technology and contact tracing apps, to name just a few.
This is how the government keeps us under control and in its crosshairs.
By the time you combine the DHS’ “See Something, Say Something” with CP3 and community policing, which has gone global in the guise of the Strong Cities Network program, you’ve got a formula for enabling the government to not only flag distinct “anti-government” segments of the population but locking down the entire nation.
Under the guise of fighting violent extremism “in all of its forms and manifestations” in cities and communities across the world, the Strong Cities Network program works with the UN and the federal government to train local police agencies across America in how to identify, fight and prevent extremism, as well as address intolerance within their communities, using all of the resources at their disposal.
What this program is really all about, however, is community policing on a global scale with the objective being to prevent violent extremism by targeting its source: racism, bigotry, hatred, intolerance, etc. In other words, police will identify, monitor and deter individuals who could be construed as potential extremist “threats,” violent or otherwise, before they can become actual threats.
The government’s war on extremists has been sold to Americans in much the same way that the USA Patriot Act was sold to Americans: as a means of combatting terrorists who seek to destroy America.
However, as we now know, the USA Patriot Act was used as a front to advance the surveillance state, allowing the government to establish a far-reaching domestic spying program that has turned every American citizen into a criminal suspect.
Similarly, the concern with the government’s ongoing anti-extremism program is that it will, in many cases, be utilized to render otherwise lawful, nonviolent activities as potentially extremist.
Keep in mind that the government agencies involved in ferreting out American “extremists” will carry out their objectives—to identify and deter potential extremists—in concert with fusion centers, data collection agencies, behavioral scientists, corporations, social media, and community organizers and by relying on cutting-edge technology for surveillance, facial recognition, predictive policing, biometrics, and behavioral epigenetics (in which life experiences alter one’s genetic makeup).
This is pre-crime on an ideological scale and it’s been a long time coming.
For example, in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released two reports, one on “Rightwing Extremism,” which broadly defines rightwing extremists as individuals and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely,” and one on “Leftwing Extremism,” which labeled environmental and animal rights activist groups as extremists.
These reports, which use the words terrorist and extremist interchangeably, indicate that for the government, anyone seen as opposing the government—whether they’re Left, Right or somewhere in between—can be labeled an extremist.
Fast forward a few years, and you have the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which each successive presidential administration has continually re-upped, that allows the military to take you out of your home, lock you up with no access to friends, family or the courts if you’re seen as an extremist.
Now connect the dots, from the 2009 Extremism reports to the NDAA and the far-reaching data crime fusion centers that collect and share surveillance data between local, state and federal police agencies.
Add in tens of thousands of armed, surveillance drones that will soon blanket American skies, facial recognition technology that identifies and tracks you wherever you go and whatever you do. And then to complete the circle, toss in the real-time crime centers which are attempting to “predict” crimes and identify criminals before they happen based on widespread surveillance, complex mathematical algorithms and prognostication programs.
If you can’t read the writing on the wall, you need to pay better attention.
As I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, unless we can put the brakes on this dramatic expansion and globalization of the government’s powers, we’re not going to recognize this country five, ten—even twenty—years from now.
As long as “we the people” continue to allow the government to trample our rights in the so-called name of national security, things will get worse, not better.
It’s already worse.
Originally published by The Rutherford Institute
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His book Battlefield America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at [email protected]
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It is a good quote that kicks off this article. Nazi Germany was not the only country to exploit “The Ugly Duckling Syndrome” — getting the “regular guys” to gang up on the outsider. Judging from the article, today’s U$A resembles Vienna under Metternich (1821-1848): “A police state hampered by Incompetence.”
Psst! psst! Get out of town!
This article is nothing but a copy/paste, and you STILL managed to work a typo into the first paragraph after the opening quote. Ugh.
There was a missing angle bracket which caused some of the text not to show, a mistake in our formatting. Thanks for flagging. A2
There was on American television in the 60’s an extraordinary show called The Fugitive. It was extraordinary for several reasons. First was the performance of David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble, falsely accused of killing his wife. Several times per episode you vacillate between: world’s worst actor, finest actor of his generation.
The second thing about the show was that, despite its name, it wasn’t really about the fugitive. More (sheer brilliance) Richard Kimble was perhaps the dullest character in the history of American television. What the show was about was the small circle of friends and acquaintances that Kimble entered into each week, and the moral dilemma he presented them w, which was: do I let this wife-killer go?
And that was the third extraordinary thing about the show; that each week these people said yes. Not only said yes, but in many instances did all they could to help Richard Kimble escape — lawmen included!. Because they’d met Richard Kimble and didn’t believe he killed his wife. Therefore, as humans — not citizens — their course of action was obvious. To prevent the state from killing him.
Yes, it was a television show. But that America, like that show, is dead and gone. The state the state the state the state — that’s what all the flags are for. Not the troops, oh no. The state.
Does anyone deserve any “rights” when they allow fools like Biden, Trudeau, Sunak and Macron to tell them what to do?
There is a “War on the People” and the useless people lost years ago.
“And what did you see my blue eyed son.” I don’t think DHS was looking for what Bob Dylan wrote about.
Bob Dylan A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall – YouTube
Just dug that song out and I still don’t know what bob was on about. Sounds nice when sung by joan baez though.
Two out of three. If I went to church, I’d be in really deep shit. But I don’t get that one too much. Most churchgoers I’ve seen are as clueless as it gets. I mean, look what they’re doing. Going to a building on Sundays (or whatever) and praying to something they’ve never seen, for what? Help? Shit, if I was the government, or rather those that control our governments, I’d just let these ones alone, they’re fucking harmless and completely subjugated. They’ll believe anything. The only ones left to save our shit are those that believe in individual human freedom and reject authoritarianism and totalitarianism. Those that have some fucking pride. Ya, it’s already worse. And it’s going to keep getting worse because those of us left (no pun intended) can’t seem to organize our way out of a fucking paper bag.
Do you really think that what you can perceive with your senses is all there is? The powers that be know the spirit world is very real. It is a question of which side you give your heart and energy to.
By the way, in case you hadn’t noticed, the powers that be control everything. So there is no ‘organizing’ our way out of this. They own all major institutions and corporations. They own governments and militaries. They can massacre us whenever we revolt because they have all weaponry.
Are you so blind to see the ‘organisation’ cannot work, until the people have become spiritual? Until they realise there is good and evil, that there are higher powers at work and that we help either side by our own actions.
It’s a spiritual problem. Organising will not work until the souls of the people have radically transformed.
You may well be right. Do you know why they haven’t massacred us? If not, are you able to guess/ speculate?
If I see the bad moon risin’ and I see trouble on the way should I phone the government snitch number and say something?
No man, call John Fogerty and tell him he was right.
We think of this assualt on the people as a linear attack.
First, they knock out an inconvenient president, then some NY real estate, big health psyop, climate,….yadda,yadda.
But maybe their power lies in the little things that go on whilst your looking at the big ‘shows’
The Russell Brands, the BLMs, the Me toos, The Energy Bill, The Online Safety bill…………
Overload !
There is so much thrown at us but the one thing they all have in common is divide and conquer.
I actually find it reassuring that they can’t think of a better tactic than to make us fight amongst ourselves.
Well, I’m not falling for it.
Are you ?
Are you thinking that if they didn’t do that, we wouldn’t fight amongst ourselves?
The only flaw in the whole scheme, of course, is that half the population are looking at their phones and would struggle to see the lamppost in front of them. People have never been less observant.
I agree. Most are so engaged with their phones that they are completely disengaged with the natural world.
so true; and so sad: here in Vancouver, Kanuckistan, the ‘young’n’s’ are in some type of egregore; the likes of which have not been witnessed – except in episodes of the Twilight Zone perhaps! Suffice to say, truly bizarro land here in what the great ‘Jeff C.’ (RIP) so humorously – and honestly – managed to encapsulate in his intro to his live streams: ‘Welcome to Rainbow-Unicorn land; where your government wants to turn your children into trannies’ lol That is all! RGB-Y3 out!!
‘ Kanuckistan’ ! Love it! I wonder if the non-Canadians on here got that? What does ‘ RGB- Y3 out’ mean? Is it Rainbow Gay and bi sexual and then an extra chromosome?
And CIA Grooms Americans to Abdicate Resistance
Yessir, we should stop voting because every aspirant or member of Congress or Govt is evil– or, as some fool said, “It only encourages them.” Oh, yes– and all of your local politicians too.
51 co-sponsors to Biggs’ bill to withdraw from the WHO
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/51-congress-members-co-sponsoring
Beware of foolish advice to abdicate support for rational means of resistance. All over the world there are individuals and groups fighting back. Do you REALLY think this isn’t happening merely because the media isn’t telling you about it? If you’re waiting to fight back until you see it on the news you might as well be one of the sheep that you keep blaming.
Rockwell:
“I’m just an average man, with an average life
I work from nine to five; hey hell, I pay the price
All I want is to be left alone in my average home
But why do I always feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone
I always feel like somebody’s watching me, oh
I always feel like somebody’s watching me
And I have no privacy”
“You will own nothing and be happy“ — Klaus Schwab WEF
Now shut up and eat your bugs!
Dear Department of Homeland Security, I see legions of treasonous terrorists populating the USA’s corridors of power. Where do I collect my blood money? 💰
Your alternative update on #COVID19 for 2023-09-23. 338x cancers. Obama, $5m & Wuhan lab. Sudiksha Thirumalesh deserved better. Russell Brand & Magna Carta (blog, gab, tweet).
If the “extremists” are 50% of the population, then about 50% of the workers (not counting the few making these proposals) in DHS are likely “extremists” also.
It seems a difficult task for the few, I’d say.
Commenting from Nazi Canada, I have developed a strategy that is effective on snoops; snoop on them when you know who they are. (doesn’t apply well for the internet)
In over-gentrified Nelson, BC (Buttf*ck, BC due to its out of the way location) a woman walking her dog on the street stopped in front of my business – this is afters hours, and was writing notes. So I went out and asked her “why are you acting like a spy!”
She was completely flummoxed! But she admitted that she is keeping tabs for “someone”, and that I am not the only “person of Interest”… and she gets paid; didn’t say how much.
She was taking notes referring to the fact, and I told her, “I always do after hours work as I get no interruptions from customers”. She was quite embarrassed.
I have no idea if that has affected her spying but she has stopped snooping around my business.
The War on Terror, is a war on We the People.
Climate Change is a euphemism that TPTB use to discuss We the People.
TPTB know we are awakening to their nefarious plans, and as a result, they think we are the terrorists.
‘Supercontinent’ could make Earth uninhabitable in 250m years, study predicts.
Now, I avoid academic views because they’re toxic, but this gem is almost 250 times more toxic than any $60k a year Looney Tunes university.
These looni-versities say humans may disappear over 200X as long as they have ever existed.
Cut off my balls and oxygen now! Bury the trees. Ban all transport. Kill off the humans while you’re at it. Because – long time fear, daddy didn’t love me – something may happen, 200 Aeons into the future.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/25/supercontinent-could-make-earth-uninhabitable-in-250m-years-study-predicts
UN Terrifies Youth To Push ‘Polycrisis’ – TV naturalist Chris Packham says it’s time to break laws to save Earth
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/un-terrifies-youth-to-push-polycrisis
If we act now we can prevent the formation of the supercontinent (New Earth)!
“These looney-versities say humans may disappear over 200X as long as they have ever existed.”
Well spotted, [Count the]Moneycircus. Shows the value of being Numerate as well as Literate. Homo Sap has trod the Earth for only 1 Million years. Happy to hear the Sap might survive another 249M.
Yes, if you see the government screwing you, speak up about it.
“See something say something” Hmm……. sounds remarkably like “See something say something” campaign in UK, Oh, hang on, it’s exactly the same
I see turbo cancers killing teens and 20 somethings in days or weeks after diagnosis. This is an even more novel event than the fake novel virus. Only affects the vaxxed. Should I say something?
It could be worse.
Yes. To all and sundry in The Kingdom of the Lie, and not only on this Truther site.
You might be able to help the process along a bit by re-electing Donald Trump in 2024. The problem we all have is there are always tendencies by authoritarians to clamp down, spy, control and generally bother the rest of us. Its necessary for “We, the People” to push back against this, not as a one-off but as a process. Its a nuisance because normal people have better things to do than spend all day wondering what ‘they’ are up to so we have relied on our system of government to provide the tools and relatively sensible leadership to use them to push back against it.
Not now, though. The GoP is openly espousing authoritarianism and now we’ve got a potential President that openly embraces the role as dictator. The noise surrounding this — the propaganda — shouts about ‘individual freedom’ and how ‘they’ are coming for their guns and so on but it really is noise. Like those pages and pages of T&Cs that you click through nobody reads the fine print. Nobody wants to read the fine print, that is — they’ve got better things to do. But they need to in order to understand the package that’s being sold. Pure, unadulterated fascism. We’ve seen examples of this before in South America and the result is invariably a dimishing of the country — it turns inwards, attacking itself like some political auto-immune disease. The rest of the world just carries on.
This doesn’t mean that I think that “the other lot” are the Saviors of Mankind, just that given openly stated tendencies we should not encourage them. After all, we’ve fallen a fair way since the 1970s in terms of public awareness and engagement, and we gave everything up willingly. Much was taken from us but ‘they’ always want more.
“You might be able to help the process along a bit by re-electing Donald Trump in 2024.”
Trump was certainly better than Killery — but not much. True, he did not stoke the fires in the Middle East & Ukraine but he did nothing to dowse them.
Whatever happened to RFK? Too sane?
Wouldn’t be easier to follow the drugs?
Given that most of the people doing the stupid stuff are already taking some kind of anti psychotic, it would make sense and save a lot of effort and money. They have already violated our medical privacy under emergency measures.
Although, Big Pharma and medicine might be tarnished again. But that can be fixed (again) with state sponsored and mandated censorship.
Follow the money to the drugs to the doctors to the patients. Last I read, nearly all of the mass shooters had taken a break from their “medication” which led to their events.
I wonder how many members of the White House, Congress and Court System tyrants are thriving on the same anti psychotics. I don’t know how else these nut jobs are able to maintain a straight face with that nothing behind the eyes look as they lie directly to Congress during inquiries. Flat out lying with no remorse whatsoever.
Epoch Times has awakened to the United Nations Agenda 2030 (took a while). You know. The efforts to shut down farms to save the world from climate change. https://unsdg.un.org/2030-agenda
They are premiering a documentary tonight called No Farms No Food:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/nofarmersnofood-redcarpetpremiere-5494769?utm_source=Morningbrief&src_src=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2023-09-25&src_cmp=mb-2023-09-25&utm_medium=email&est=7e30sN5mH8JXh57FmNZ9UxNZx9LuMhlQF00GZSoEp27qnEiQpWVwSwSKHmGM1voeZes4aYgq
Just an advice. The long code after and including ? is a tracking number.
If you delete this after and including ? either as commentator or reader, it will not track you.
With the advice of Erik Nielsen here is the link without the tracker. Thanks for that advice. Had no idea. https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/nofarmersnofood-redcarpetpremiere-5494769
I like Rutherford Institute, but unfortunately there are basic misunderstandings in this article.
We the people do not have rights. We the people have obligations. We are responsible for acquainting ourselves with natural law and the Constitution and from here select and elect representatives who serve our society by coordinating works in the public space.
Within our homes and private area we the people have the plight to behave in a civilised manner and take upon us responsibility for our own family, friends and neighbours.
So, it is the duty of our public representatives to secure the safety and processing of the works agreed, in public space.
When reading the article it sounds like the public institutions should secure the rights of all destabilising and radicalised groups as part of “rights to freedom, free posters, free stirring up riots, and free smashing of public space and restaurants”. because this is democracy and our freedom rights.
Whereafter our public servants should clean up after all the mesh we caused.
You must have this basic clean before you criticize our public servants for trying to limit damages within their area of responsibility. Otherwise you will hunt and judge innocent people who only do their job.
Not saying HS, FBI, whoever are saints at all, just that we be should be correct and precise with our background and own responsibility before we raise fingers.
If we arent precise with our basics, our conclusions and actions will be futile.
I agree with your defense of the Mazzini doctrine: Human Responsibilities are more important than Human Rights.
But I do not like your plea for “innocent people who only do their job.”
That’s what Pontius Pilate said, washing his hands of Human Responsibilties..
Fear and paranoia.
A double whammy for the gullible.
Weapons of mass distraction.
See something say something ends at the steps of congress where one is then turned into a monkey who sees, hears, and speaks nothing.
The hero of ‘Sound of Freedom’, the film beloved by the US right, happens to be a DHS officer. Good analysis of how that film’s a constructed psyop here:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/15144188/sus-of-freedom
Huh! Come on.
Yes of course and Alex JONES is controlled opposition as well as Julian Assange enjoys detention..
In fact everything is controlled opposition or a psyop..
sounds like YOU are.
The tagline for the remake of The Manchurian Candidate about 20 years ago with Denzel must have come from the director, the brilliant Jonathan Demme:
“Everything is under control”
This article touches on something rarely discussed on here namely immigration.
Racism is the reason often stated as for not discussing it but there are a number of factors relating to the rest of the shitshow at the minute (i.e UN compact 2018) that are relevant and I think should be discussed.
I just want to make sure I’m not out of order discussing it.
Immigration – especially illegal immigration (as in the US) – falls under the category of “Chickens Coming Home To Roost.”
If the Western Colonial powers booted the IMF and World Bank off the planet today, “immigration” would end tomorrow.
aka our Spookocracy.
I’ve been using that word for about ten years. The practice was the very essence of family life for the 3rd Reich, when children would rat out their parents to the Gestapo with regularity.
Now here’s the 6th, or so it was called by Hunter S Thompson. (He passed 20 years ago, so maybe the 7th?)
I’m finding the first paragraph confusing. Should it be edited? (Perhaps not! :-))
(Currently it says this: re you among the 41% of Americans who regularly attend church or some other religious service?economy is about to collapse and the government will soon declare martial law?)
yes I think perhaps the words ‘ Do you fear that the’ are missing from the beginning of the second question.
Also though it was odd.
Only controlled opposition spotted the missing text 🙂