Crikey.
It was merely a thought experiment about the dangers of unstable, power-hungry wack-a-doos who also happen to be kajillionaires.
Although I do think that the potential is high for a "see something say something" type of citizen program in our near future.
@codeWhisperer Funny thing -- that "voter drive" he did just before the election really whiffed to me of exactly that sort of program -- not the specifics of the activity but the mechanisms (at least the ones that were publicly noted). A light reworking... would that be so surprising?