{"content":[{"text":"And we can go back further in history. The Praetorian Guards of the Roman Empire had spy \n outﬁts when the oppressed were suspected of rising up against the Roman tyranny.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.051633,"width":0.7940590000000001,"height":0.033372}},{"text":"In American history we can go back at least to the adoption of the US Constitution, in which \n the only provision for the death penalty was treason (“giving aid and comfort to the \n enemy”).","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.102234,"width":0.794124,"height":0.05118899999999997}},{"text":"The war fevers of the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War \n and the Spanish-American War (more accurately known as the Philippine-American War) all \n had their legal ways to ferret out dissenters.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.170651,"width":0.794166,"height":0.051188999999999985}},{"text":"And so the US Congress, immediately after entering World War I, passed the Espionage Act \n of 1917 amended soon thereafter by the Sedition Act of 1917 – aimed at domestic \n “enemies” – which prohibited many forms of speech, including “any disloyal, profane, \n scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States…or the \n ﬂag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy”.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.239069,"width":0.7941440000000001,"height":0.08682299999999996}},{"text":"Those acts criminalized anyone who seemed to be “insuﬃciently patriotic”, “defeatist” or \n otherwise opposed to the war eﬀort. Speciﬁcally, the Espionage Act criminalized anybody \n who caused or attempted to cause “insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, refusal of duty in \n the military or naval forces of the United States, or to willfully obstruct the recruiting or \n enlistment service of the United States”. Fascism regularly re-emerges to degrade \n democracy in the Land of the Free.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.34312,"width":0.794134,"height":0.10464099999999998}},{"text":"Objectors to war and killing on the basis of their consciences were accused of being traitors \n and were spied upon, harassed and imprisoned during the Red Scare of 1918 – 1919 and the \n infamous Palmer Raids. Many conscientious objectors to war and killing were deported and \n even given the death penalty. Even Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist Party candidate for \n president in 1904, 1908 and 1912, was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for \n making a speech that “obstructed recruiting”. He ran for president in 1920 while in prison \n and was so popular with the working class that he got almost 1 million write-in votes.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.464989,"width":0.794166,"height":0.12245700000000004}},{"text":"Fulﬁlling one’s patriotic, whistle-blowing duty to speak out when seeing something (for \n instance, Treason in High Places?","bbox":{"left":0.129388,"top":0.604675,"width":0.741217,"height":0.03337200000000007}},{"text":"I have long thought that it was my obligation to say something if I saw something that is a \n signiﬁcant threat to humanity, the planet or even the country that I love. I honestly feel, \n along with many other peacemakers, that it is my patriotic duty to warn others of potentially \n serious issues that may have been over-looked or under-appreciated. Speaking up about \n things that may be unethical, immoral or illegal is what whistle-blowers and prophetic voices \n do, so many of us activists have accepted the Department of Homeland Security’s invitation \n to be a snitch on domestic enemies in high places, particularly about what really happened \n on 9/11/01, realities that unequivocally disprove the oﬃcial White House Conspiracy Theory \n and its Big Lies.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.655275,"width":0.7940780000000001,"height":0.15809099999999998}},{"text":"I have chosen to trust my eyes and ears and intuition when confronted with the \n overwhelming evidence that debunks what the pathological liars in the infamous \n Cheney/Bush/Rove/Rumsfeld administrations have had to say and to keep Saying \n Something.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.830595,"width":0.794177,"height":0.06900600000000001}},{"text":"On 9/11/01 (and many times since then in the 12 years and hundreds of hours of study and","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.916829,"width":0.793886,"height":0.015554999999999986}},{"text":"| 2","bbox":{"left":0.905167,"top":0.951943,"width":0.02340999999999993,"height":0.01659200000000005}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}