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Moreover, repression's so extreme, anything can be called terrorism or activities connected to it threatening national security.
In September 2010, FBI agents raided homes and offices of anti-war activists in Chicago and Minneapolis. Grand jury subpoenas followed. In June, the Supreme Court's Holder v. the Humanitarian Law Project decision ruled nonviolent speech and advocacy "coordinated with (or) under the direction of" designation foreign terrorist groups illegal.
First Amendment protections don't apply. OWS and other protesters may be called terrorists. Indefinite detention in military prisons may follow. Citizenship rights are also threatened if congressionally introduced legislation passes.
Called the Enemy Expatriation Act, it lets Washington summarily strip Americans of citizenship for "engaging in, or purposefully and materially supporting, hostilities against the United States." No corrorborative proof's needed. In other words, judicially fair convictions according to law don't apply.
A Final Comment
America's on a slippery slope toward full-blown tyranny. Freedom hangs by a thread. Anyone challenging state power is vulnerable. Constitutional protections don't apply.
Presidential diktat authority replaced them. Martial law looms if so ordered. Nonviolent protesters are threatened. Freedom's fast going, going, gone.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at Email address removed .
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