Wednesday, December 26, 2012  OWS Activists Called Domestic
Terrorists  Dees Illustration Stephen Lendman, Contributor
Activist Post  US history is littered with repressive laws.
Constitutional protections and civil liberties have been
targeted. The 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts restricted First
Amendment freedoms.  So did the 1917 Espionage Act, 1919 anti-
communist Palmer raids, 1934 Special Committee on Un-American
Activities, its House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
successor, FBI COINTELPRO crackdowns, 1996 Anti-Terrorism and
Effective Death Penalty Act, 2001 USA Patriot Act, and other
post-9/11 measures.  Police state harshness today reflects US
policy. Compromised civil liberties expanded government
surveillance, eroded habeas rights, formalized military
tribunals, permitted torture-extracted confessions, and
sanctified violence in the name of national security.  Thousands
of political prisoners languish in America's gulag. It's the
world's largest by far. It's one of the harshest.  Many there d