No Better than Arab Regimes: FBI Using Patriot Act to Legally Target Activists
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The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are now using the Patriot Act as legal recourse to target and activists who are not willing to say in line with the status quo, sources said.
The FBI has filed 164,000 suspicious activity reports written up on activists who did not follow government policies. For example, in California, 27 individuals are set to go on trial for protest actions. In Pennsylvania, activists even faced terrorism charges for writing slogans in chalk on sidewalks.
The US government has armed the FBI and other branches of law enforcement with the Patriot Act, to apply Gestapo tactics and tools designed to fight terrorism to impose oppression on political activists, stepping on their freedom of speech and assembly rights.
The US is therefore using law enforcement, hence violence and brutality to stop a movement which is merely exercising its right to free speech and the right to protest.
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are now using the Patriot Act as legal recourse to target and activists who are not willing to say in line with the status quo, sources said.
The FBI has filed 164,000 suspicious activity reports written up on activists who did not follow government policies. For example, in California, 27 individuals are set to go on trial for protest actions. In Pennsylvania, activists even faced terrorism charges for writing slogans in chalk on sidewalks.
The US government has armed the FBI and other branches of law enforcement with the Patriot Act, to apply Gestapo tactics and tools designed to fight terrorism to impose oppression on political activists, stepping on their freedom of speech and assembly rights.
The US is therefore using law enforcement, hence violence and brutality to stop a movement which is merely exercising its right to free speech and the right to protest.
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