Freedom in America is endangered. Bipartisan complicity plans destroying it altogether.
America is on a fast track toward tyranny and ruin. Police state laws threaten everyone.
Increasingly, dissent is marginalized. It’s not tolerated. Resistance is called dangerous to National Security.
Federal authorities target activists. So do militarized local police. No-holds-barred tactics are employed.
In October 2010, the Center for Constitutional Rights said:
The growing threat to the right to dissent has been demonstrated in the U.S. government’s efforts to silence speech, and criminalize and target peaceful movements.
These efforts are becoming more aggressive, emboldened further by the Supreme Court’s increasingly conservative decisions, for instance regarding material support in the form of humanitarian aid to so-called terrorist organizations.
Howard Zinn called dissent “the highest form of patriotism.” Michael Ratner and Margaret Ratner Kunstler’s book Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty First Century America discusses what everyone needs to know.
It explores how activism and dissent are targeted. Demonstrations are attacked and disrupted. Protesters are called terrorists. They’re arrested and jailed for expressing constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment and other rights.
Authorities claim they give “material support” to perceived enemies. Hell No provides advice on dealing with a menu of police state practices.
American’s First Amendment guarantees free expression, a free press, the right to peacefully assemble, free exercise of religion, and right to petition government for redress of grievances.
Without these rights, all others are at risk. They’ve been fast eroding in America for years en route to eliminating them altogether. Forgotten are numerous Supreme Court decisions upholding free expression and assembly rights.

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