Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Democracy Now!" channel.

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  38. We have the experience of government writing special laws against free speech for German NAZI's before WW2. It was called the Smith 'gag' Act. The first people arrested were actually NAZI's and they were found not guilty. The next people were Trotskyists members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Teamster's Union. The actual trial transcript of Party Leader James Cannon was and still is published in, "Socialism on Trial". A large protest by union locals nationwide was organized. The comrades did 18 months in prison. The Communist Party USA hailed the convictions as necessary for the war effort. They spent the whole war being the best strikebreakers money or should I say Stalin could buy. At the end of the war they announced the permeate victory of the Soviet Union and an end to the class struggle. During the 1950's the Communist Party being rightly hated by most of the working class had the same law now used against them with long sentences of five years. They claimed about 100,000 members in 1949 and by the time of the Cuban revolution turned back the second red scare the had maybe a 1,000 members. Now we aren't going to provide lawyers for the fascists if they need them the capitalist will provide them. If the set up a table and try recruiting people for murder by using the words you said they'll be arrested for murder solicitation which is already illegal. If you're interested in more on that subject I suggest Fascism What It Is and How to Fight it by Leon Trotsky. Mostly there are already enough laws to arrest Fascist for their actions and no new ones are needed. Remember they only got 500 people for the biggest national action in decades and the counter protest around the country way out numbered them.
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