Enkephalen
My Stars!
I've seen this strategy used before in real life. TPTB will herd you closer and closer into a smaller and smaller area until you have no wiggle room. All the time, the rules will be changed to suit their ultimate goal: declaw and defang the "trouble makers" and place them on permanent restriction. The ones who cry the loudest for more and more rule changes, harsher punishments, and send out the hue and cry for the perceived troublemakers to be expelled from the group were, at one time or another, considered problem children within the familly body. I don't know if this is classic projection or smug glee at having someone else be the family pariah instead of them. In any event, no one seems to understand that their home has changed and not necessarily for the better.