Yes.
The Federation had changed.
If anyone else had done this, they undoubtedly would have faced overwhelming attacks from public opinion.
Don't think the Federation had no so-called public intellectuals.
Here's a joke.
The public intellectuals in other countries took the Federation's money to speak for the Federation, but the Federation's public intellectuals generated electricity with love and constantly attacked every policy the Federation implemented.
Unfortunately.
This time, they had met their match.
Their opponent in this battle was Lake. His methods for dealing with these people were old-fashioned, but extremely simple and effective.
When this operation, internally codenamed "The Federation Is the Federation's Federation," began, Lake ordered Red Queen to take over the nation's networks. Whenever a public intellectual tried to start ranting, Red Queen would locate them directly, and the local federal law-enforcement agencies would pay them a visit at the fastest possible speed.
Even so.
The largest concentration of public intellectuals was actually in New York.
That made Lake's expression turn ugly for the first time when he returned to the New York Department of Homeland Security.
If Lake looked bad, the public intellectuals looked even worse.
No.
They should have had no expressions at all.
After all, how could the dead possibly make expressions?
In any case.
Under this operation, illegal immigrants across the Federation wailed in misery. At first, these pests even emerged brazenly from dark corners and staged all kinds of demonstrations, claiming that the Federation's current treatment of them was equivalent to burying the Federation's future. It was as if the Federation would have no future at all if it expelled them.
Lake nearly laughed out loud.
Their slogans were one reason, and the fact that they had come out on their own saved the local law-enforcement agencies countless hours of effort tracking