> Not really, especially when their actions are such things as general strikes
> and calling for a legal referendum. The Workers World Party openly calls
> for overthrowing the US system and the left here has lots of slogans like
> "regime change begins at home." Does this mean the US government is within
> its rights to jail all WWP members and all those who have associated with
> them in rallies?
>
> As far as coups and such, the power of the state basically means that, for
> me, those caught actually attempting to overthrow a regime by force can be
> jailed then, as happened last April, but those merely associated with such
> coup leaders or those calling for such in the future have the free speech
> right to advocate overthrow of their regimes.
>
> By yours and Yoshie's logic, most of Cointelpro was completely justified
> and
> probably too few Panthers were jailed, since from every account I have from
> friends of the era, a lot of folks fully intended to support overthrow of
> the Nixon and capitalist regime.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
>
>
>
>
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