What's ahead for protesters in the coming months? Planning ahead for pushback from the State, part 1
Source: unknown Ahead of larger protests and more people taking to the streets, it might be worthwhile to be aware of what the regime is attempting to do now to breach the right to peaceful assembly and silence voices. We aren’t at the point where the military is turned on crowds, but be aware that is a big part of the authoritarians playbook. First, there will be draconian legislative measures. As you may assume, many such measures are before different legislatures in conservative states. Concurrently, the federal government is considering several ways to make protesting illegal. Let’s take a look. Cynics and the chronically apathetic contend that protests don’t do anything. History proves this to be a fallacy and you have to ask, if protests don’t do anything, why has there been across the history of this country, legislation to restrict the right to peacefully assemble, to rally, to march, to protest? Only a fool would believe that the measures instituted during GW Bush’...
