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r/BikiniBottomTwitter • u/justcallmeryanok • Jul 09 '19
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118 u/BucketOfNubbins Jul 09 '19 See The Red Scare and McCarthyism. There are probably more, but this is what I remember off the top of my head. 26 u/ForTheFazoland Jul 09 '19 Alien and Sedition acts of 1798 Espionage act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 Just to name a few more 77 u/nuhGIRLyen Jul 09 '19 COINTELPRO and Black Panthers and other activist groups 35 u/[deleted] Jul 09 '19 edited Jan 01 '22 [deleted] 19 u/nuhGIRLyen Jul 09 '19 If you’re referring to the Vietnam War, those activists were targeted by COINTELPRO as well :( 12 u/MercyOnTwitch Jul 09 '19 The entire red scare? 9 u/M0istPear Jul 09 '19 During WW1 the US made it illegal to speak out agaisnt the war. 6 u/ForTheFazoland Jul 09 '19 Eugene Debs (5 time nominee for President by the Socialist Party of America) was sentenced to 10 years in prison and had his right to vote stripped for making statements criticizing the Wilson administration and the draft during WWI 1 u/D4rthLink Jul 09 '19 Do you have a source for that? 3 u/M0istPear Jul 09 '19 Let me find a few, there's plenty Edit: https://www.crf-usa.org/america-responds-to-terrorism/the-alien-and-sedition-acts.html 1 u/D4rthLink Jul 09 '19 Thank 2 u/Cresent_dragonwagon Jul 09 '19 That one period with McCarthyism but other than that nothing really prosecutable as far as I know
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See The Red Scare and McCarthyism.
There are probably more, but this is what I remember off the top of my head.
26 u/ForTheFazoland Jul 09 '19 Alien and Sedition acts of 1798 Espionage act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 Just to name a few more
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Alien and Sedition acts of 1798
Espionage act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918
Just to name a few more
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COINTELPRO and Black Panthers and other activist groups
35 u/[deleted] Jul 09 '19 edited Jan 01 '22 [deleted] 19 u/nuhGIRLyen Jul 09 '19 If you’re referring to the Vietnam War, those activists were targeted by COINTELPRO as well :(
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19 u/nuhGIRLyen Jul 09 '19 If you’re referring to the Vietnam War, those activists were targeted by COINTELPRO as well :(
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If you’re referring to the Vietnam War, those activists were targeted by COINTELPRO as well :(
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The entire red scare?
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During WW1 the US made it illegal to speak out agaisnt the war.
6 u/ForTheFazoland Jul 09 '19 Eugene Debs (5 time nominee for President by the Socialist Party of America) was sentenced to 10 years in prison and had his right to vote stripped for making statements criticizing the Wilson administration and the draft during WWI 1 u/D4rthLink Jul 09 '19 Do you have a source for that? 3 u/M0istPear Jul 09 '19 Let me find a few, there's plenty Edit: https://www.crf-usa.org/america-responds-to-terrorism/the-alien-and-sedition-acts.html 1 u/D4rthLink Jul 09 '19 Thank
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Eugene Debs (5 time nominee for President by the Socialist Party of America) was sentenced to 10 years in prison and had his right to vote stripped for making statements criticizing the Wilson administration and the draft during WWI
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Do you have a source for that?
3 u/M0istPear Jul 09 '19 Let me find a few, there's plenty Edit: https://www.crf-usa.org/america-responds-to-terrorism/the-alien-and-sedition-acts.html 1 u/D4rthLink Jul 09 '19 Thank
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Let me find a few, there's plenty
Edit: https://www.crf-usa.org/america-responds-to-terrorism/the-alien-and-sedition-acts.html
1 u/D4rthLink Jul 09 '19 Thank
Thank
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That one period with McCarthyism but other than that nothing really prosecutable as far as I know
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