If your government gets out of line, as an American we each have the privilege of protesting what they do, right? Free speech and all that rot. Right?
Not anymore. Not if the government is Republican.
You can plan a non-violent protest, but the FBI or the local police have spies paid to report on your plans. But there is a problem - they don't get paid unless someone is arrested. So if you plan and operate a controlled, non-violent protest, those spies will instigate violence against the police to cause arrests. The police will arrest you, not their moles. They'll convict you, not the instigators who committed the crimes. Because you are a terrorist. You are the protester.
Then the police or Republican will announce to the press that they were aware of a plot to commit terrorism.
See, you are no longer a protester with free speech rights. Now you have become a "Terrorist!"
Your crime? You think the government is going the wrong direction and you want to protest in a non-violent manner as did both Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King. Today they'd be "Terrorists," would be arrested for something a paid police instigator did and would be tried in the press based on "leaks" from the police, FBI and Republican politicians.
Go read "Moles Wanted" from the "City Pages" of Minneapolis St. Paul.
Why Minneapolis-St. Paul? Because that is where the Republican National Convention is planned this Summer, and the Republicans Really, Really don't like protests!
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