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lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts) Wed Nov 22, 2017, 10:11 AM Nov 2017

Anti-Trump protesters risk 60 years in jail. Is dissent a crime?

From The Guardian:

On the morning of President Trump’s inauguration, police trapped and arrested more than 230 people. Some were anti-Trump demonstrators; some were not. The next day, federal prosecutors charged them all with “felony rioting”, a nonexistent crime in Washington DC. The prosecution then launched a sweeping investigation into the defendants’ lives, demanding vast amounts of online information through secret warrants.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/22/donald-trump-administration-punishing-dissent-protesters

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Anti-Trump protesters risk 60 years in jail. Is dissent a crime? (Original Post) lordsummerisle Nov 2017 OP

Sessions is a bad attorney and these prosecutions are political witch hunts Gothmog Nov 2017 #1

Moscow on the Potomac? More and more this administration is adopting justhanginon Nov 2017 #2

Gothmog

(145,321 posts)

1. Sessions is a bad attorney and these prosecutions are political witch hunts

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Wed Nov 22, 2017, 10:36 AM

Nov 2017

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)

2. Moscow on the Potomac? More and more this administration is adopting

Reply to Gothmog (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 22, 2017, 10:58 AM

Nov 2017

the Putin method of governing, especially with regard to those who disagree with their policies. Punishment and revenge of those not in their favor are the order of the day for dictatorships. If we are not there, we are getting very, very close. With a compliant republican congress, there is not much change expected in the near term for the good people of this country.

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