America, Now in New Gestapo Flavor

This is how this sort of thing starts - a federal subpoena for University records of dissidents.

This plus the Greenpeace prosecution story, also extremely unusual legally speaking, points to a demonstrated intent of this adminstration to use federal police power to supress political dissent. Small incidents now. We can expect more, much more.

Please call everyone you know for voter registration by Oct. 1st.

[I love that the Feds refuse to comment on why they're doing this (perhaps they think they've found the 20th hijacker). Looking forward to the speedy trial in which the victims have the right to confront their accuser... Not discounting the Gestapo analogy, but actually, this country is looking more and more to me like 19th-century England, in which commercial monopolies dominated the country in the name of "laissez faire" capitalism, ruined their enemies with expensive and often fraudulent litigation, and the agencies of government were controlled by commercial interests. -MoF]