The Crisis of Public Dissent by FRAN SHOR
Beyond the kind of hyper patriotic attacks which label any and all opposition during wartime as "treasonous," the thrust of Bush Administration repression is to criminalize dissent. After Attorney General Ashcroft eliminated restrictions on FBI surveillance of US citizens in May of 2002, FBI agents have more zealously investigated anti-war activists. According to a US Senate report on the impact of Ashcroft's ruling, the FBI has adopted the "belief that dissident speech and associations should be prevented because they were incipient steps towards the possible ultimate commission of an act which might be criminal."
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