Congress recently passed a bill, signed by President Obama (very disappointing, to say the least), outlawing public protest; clearly in defiance of the Constitutional right of Americans explicit in the Bill of Rights, "Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." "By rebranding activism as terrorism, corporate interests have made it far too easy for some of our bravest activists to be locked away for years. In the past decade, I have seen many of my closest friends go to prison, including my co-plaintiff Lauren Gazzola. Not only were these activists punished for their successful advocacy, their sentences were intended as warnings to others like me - that we are right to be scared of laws like the AETA, and that we should sit down and be quiet."
Posted on: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:30:02 +0000
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