The facts assembled in the following pages attest to the pathology of a government so frightened of its own citizens that it classifies them as probable enemies. Mustering evidence from witnesses everywhere in the country (from trial judges in Oakland and Philadelphia as well as from First Amendment lawyers in New York, Portland, Boston, Washington and Miami) the report cites a long list of recent incidents in which various law enforcement agencies (federal, state, municipal) have deployed one or another of the increasingly sophisticated methods of intimidation (checkpoints, rush tactics, pop-up lines, containment pens, mass and false arrests, etc.) meant to negate the freedoms of speech and silence the voices of dissent.
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