Status Updates From Silencing Political Dissent...

"Red squads-- the police units that became notorious during Hoover's reign as the FBI's director for spying on, infiltrating, and disrupting left-wing political organizations in cooperation with the FBI."

"Because the Sixth Amendment extends only to criminal proceedings, the government has no obligation to provide noncitizens with free legal counsel in immigration proceedings"

"A cautionary tale can be found in the 1976 report of the Curch Committee, which revealed that the FBI and CIA had spied on and maintained dossiers on thousands of law-abiding citizens-- from civil rights workers to anti-vietnam war protestors-- who were targeted solely because the government believed that they harbored politically dissident views."

"Exactly at those moments when citizens need greatest freedom to speak their minds, exactly when life and death issues are involved, that is, when the question is war or peace, it is then that our liberties are taken away. The juggernaut of war crushes democracy"