Okie. Doke. While I don't doubt it is possible that your paranoia is warrented. -- afterall, we've been living in Crazy Land for the last five or six years. But in this case, I'd say from first hand experience that you are wrong.

I ain't nobody in particular, and you don't know me from Adam, let alone a fed, but I can report that AC is not a particularly clumsy ruse to entrap would-be sabateurs, but a clumsy attempt at living life without constant barriers, restriction, and fear.

But that said, do what you must. And don't do what you don't believe in.