Code Red In America

 I am afraid that this most recent National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 spells the end of political freedom , and expression of personal opinion , in this country .  Now it's not enough that the secret police state go offer actual terrorists for their violent actions , even merely expressing opinions that the powers that be regard as being extremist , can result in persecution , and prosecution of what constitutes nothing more than a thought crime .  And from the sounds of it , not only shall associations be targeted by this despotic directive , but even persons could potentially be arrested for their attitudes . Not for conspiring to carry out violence , but for nothing more than for their dissident , and especially militancy .  The bitter irony , from what I recall from living in the 90's , during the Clinton administration , is that if the " basket of deplorables " , that make up the "vast right-wing conspiracy" were to have been so blatantly menaced in this manner , the militia movement would then show the feds just what actual terrorism looks like .  However for the most part at least , those of us on the far left have refrained from resorting to armed insurrection .  And I , as has consistently been advocated throughout this blog , believe that aside from within the context of revolutionary defensivism violence shouldn't be engaged in .  We must defend both ourselves and the beloved community from being assailed , and our rights trampled upon by the boots of federal government goons .  However we must never initiate force . Especially as this repressive regime is looking for even the slightest pretext to crack down on the anti-fascist opposition , by holding us all as being guilty by association . But all of us who are able to go underground into hiding , in my opinion , should do so . For it is no longer safe to freely operate in this country , for it is no longer the land of the free .  Not that it ever was always an entirety free country to begin with . Just look at the Alien and Sedition Acts , for a historic example . 

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/national-security-presidential-memorandum-7/