#Fear is the #WeaponOfTyranny.
When slave owners in America wanted to control any desire their black slaves might have to escape or rebel they did not need to break every slave's legs. That would have been to lose an asset. They #lynched the odd slave to send a chilling message.

When the Taliban in #Afghanistan wanted girls out of school, and women in #burqa, they did not beat up or terrorise all women. They merely brutalised - in public - the odd woman to send a chilling message.

When #India's #RightWing fascists wanted to keep the minorities (muslims, dalits, women) in their place in the heirarchy they merely had to send out the #LynchMobs on the odd occasion, video the atrocity and share it on #WhatsApp to send a chilling message

When they wanted to stop the liberals from speaking up, protesting and dissenting, they did not need to deal with everyone. They couldn't. So they targeted the one @MahuaMoitra - not to shut just her up, but to send a chilling message.

#Fascism works through fear, terrifying, chilling, clammy fear. It's the way of #terrorism, the very same Terrorism that the #NewFascists claim to combat. Not by spreading liberalism but by creating an environment of even more chilling terror. That's how they think it works.