I beg to differ: "It cannot!...........Will not! Ever happen here.
It's sure not the USA as we knew it growing up.
In regards to your #1 question. He posted a video on youtube. This is where the feds got wind of it. (Sounds like)"
I grew up during Charlie M.s time, and you had to be very careful about what you wrote and certainly if you needed material for a school report on a comunist country, you never had it sent to your home from their embassy, but rather to a PO box without your name so the FBI couldn't track you down. World hasn't changed that much, but I wish it would.