And Then There Were Three: Third Grand Jury Refuser Goes to Prison

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74. You need to understand recent laws that have been passed to limit the rights of dissenters...

Here is a good place to start:

http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/

Nonviolent activist groups have been infiltrated and targeted for intimidation based on greatly expanded laws that very broadly define terrorism to include basic acts of civil disobedience. Environmental activists have been sent to "communications management units," very secretive and tightly controlled prisons (far more strict than even Federal Supermax's). These institutions are like stateside gitmos, with extremely high populations of Muslim prisoners, who have almost zero access to their families or anyone else on the outside. People sent to these prisons are not informed prior to being sent there, are not really told why they are being sent there, and are given no opportunity to appeal once they are transferred to a CMU.

The goal here is to associate activists whose agendas could "cut profits"--which really, any awareness raising on the fundamental injustices of our current consumer culture will do--with terrorist extremism. It is a "green scare" to rival the "red scare" of the 50's, and like the red scare, intimidation and witch hunts such as this are key aspects of the overall strategy.