People say that a lot, but it’s not really true. The state will make some encroachment hear or there periodically, but it’s nothing like the immediate move to crush dissent and organizing that we see when we give them an excuse. Probably the closest thing to a real argument is that “well, they’ll generate that excuse with agent provocateurs or whatever” to which I say “the correct response is to stop agent provocateurs, not do their work for them”. There’s a reason that the feds have a long history of trying to turn leftist activists (among others) into terrorists, and it’s because terrorism is useful to the state.
The excuse “not being given” is indicative of the general lack of leftist action; when that happens, repression will follow in tow
