The year is 1774. In response to the Boston Tea Party, Britain imposes the intolerable acts and, among other punishments, quarters 3000 soldiers in Boston and removed the ability of colonialists to hold trials over British officials.

So let's see, thrusts federal agents into selected states, who now have to pay to set up infrastructure and give it to the feds, and these federal agents are not subject to FOIA or any kind of state oversight.

If you don't see where this is going yet, you will eventually have a front-row seat.