Friday 26 December 2014

‘Gagged’ by the Government

A Police State Story

by ALFREDO LOPEZ


For the past three months, I and other leaders of the organization May First/People Link have been under a federal subpoena to provide information we don’t have. During that time, we have also been forbidden by a federal court “gag order” to tell anyone about that subpoena, although we had already announced it and commented on itbefore the order was sent. Finally, we were forbidden from telling anyone about the gag order itself.
It all sounds comical but any laughter would end if we violated that “gag order,” because that would be a felony and we could face prison sentences and huge fines.
We were silenced by our own government in a case we had nothing to do with and over information we didn’t have…and we couldn’t tell anyone about any of it.
Alfredo Lopez writes about technology issues for This Can’t Be Happening!

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/25/gagged-by-the-government/

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