Welcome to the Fatherland. This article recaps some of the incidences of in which the government has violated the protection of the 1st amendment by routinely humiliating and intimidating people. Don’t tell me you wouldn’t feel intimidated.
Political dissent can bring federal agents to your door:
- “All of this speaks to the new McCarthyism, where political dissent is being equaled to treason,” Mr. Steinhardt says. “It’s a very frightening trend: that people are doing nothing more than expressing the very freedoms that we are fighting to preserve – and find themselves with the FBI at their door.”