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    The dossier adds that the public “may view the ensuing manhunt and subsequent arrest of Mangione as NYPD, and largely policing as a whole, as a tool that is willing to expend massive resources to protect the wealthy, while the average citizen is left to their own means for personal security.”…Intelligence bulletins often use preemptive surveillance gathering in an effort to head off copycat attacks, identify perceived threats, and provide guidance for future deterrence. The Connecticut dossier states that intelligence agencies are monitoring “efforts from individuals and groups to collect the home addresses of C-Suite executives in order to conduct first amendment protected activities.”

    But despite the Big Brother overture, the report goes on to describe not only health care costs, but wealth distribution as a contributing factor to national-security vulnerabilities. “Overall trust in the U.S. Healthcare System is at a historic low, only marginally higher than the all-time low in 2007, while levels of income inequality have reached historic highs. A separate study (n=400,000) reveals among the leading contributors to low trust were concerns about financial motives, quality of care, influence of other entities or agendas, and perception of discrimination or bias.”…The lack of conspiratorial language…