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Barack Obama’s Deliberate & Anti-American Insertion of Unwanted, Illegal, United Nations Soldiers Into America’s Upcoming Presidential Election as “Election Observers” is Just One More Sign This President is Hell Bent on Destroying America & Our Way of Life!
The Rising Tide of American Patriots Showing Their Increasing Dissatisfaction  With Obama’s Dictatorship Style May Very Well Serve as a Beacon For The Millions of Americans Feeling The Same Way, Whom Are Following in Their Footsteps!
Tonight’s Special Guest Scoot Woods Will Provide Great Insight For The Planned Discussion, Offering a Glimpse Into Our Constitutionally Protected Patriotic Militias Nationwide.
Mr. Woods is The Author of a “Declaration” to President Obama Which Outlines Concerned Americans/Patriots Opposition To Obama Allowing Illegal U.N. Participation in Our Presidential Election Nov 6th.
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Federal Judge Says Police Screwed Up

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By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN
 

(CN) - A 5-foot-9 man with no tattoos spent nine months in jail because Worcester, Mass. police identified him as an armed robber, though the victim said the robber was about 4-foot-9, with tattoos, the taller man claims in Federal Court.
     Paublo Rivera sued Worcester, its chief of police and three police officers, for false imprisonment, negligence and civil rights violations, in Worcester Federal Court.
     An armed man robbed at a Honey Farm Store in Worcester on May 8, 2010, U.S. District Judge Timothy Hillman wrote in denying the defendants' motion to dismiss.
     Still photographs of the suspect taken from the store's surveillance camera were posted in the police station. The photos showed that the suspect had a tattoo on his hand.
     And the victim of the robbery told officers that the suspect was about 4-feet 11-inches tall.
     But defendant Dets. Richard Burgos, James O'Rourke and Francis Bartley identified Paublo Rivera as the burglar and arrested him, although Rivera is 5-foot-9 and does not have a tattoo on his hand the judge wrote.
     Rivera was imprisoned for nine months until prosecutors decided the police had misidentified him. He sued the defendants in Worcester Superior Court, then the case was removed to Federal Court.
     Judge Hillman wrote: "Here, the officers clearly acted under the color of state law because they operated within the 'traditionally public function' of law enforcement and maintained a 'regulatory nexus' with government since they were employees of Worcester during the underlying events that gave rise to this action. The crucial issue remaining is whether plaintiff was deprived of a constitutional right.
     "Accepting the allegations in the complaint as true, the officers used only the still photograph derived from surveillance camera footage to identify the plaintiff as the perpetrator of the May 8th armed robbery and made no other efforts, besides having had past interactions with the plaintiff, to corroborate the seemingly blatant discrepancies in physical features between the plaintiff and the suspect."
     Hillman cited 2nd Circuit precedent that a court's "deferential standard" for law enforcement "does not force [a] court to swallow the plaintiff's invective hook, line, and sinker; bald assertions, unsupportable conclusions, periphrastic circumlocutions, and the like need not be credited."
     Hillman ruled that the City of Worcester may be held liable for the officers' actions, if a jury finds that "the officers acted negligently during their investigation to establish the probable cause required for obtaining the arrest warrant."
     Hillman denied all four motions to dismiss, with leave to amend one of them. 

PIC OPF THE DAY

NEW ZEALAND - Filthy Few's charges dismissed

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By Letitia Atkinson
 The Sun
Charges against the Filthy Few Motorcycle Club have been dismissed after police failed to prove the club was a legal entity.
Representatives for the Tauranga chapter appeared in Tauranga District Court yesterday for a defended hearing on charges for breaching the Sale of Liquor Act.

A police booze bus was brought to Birch Avenue as part of the police raid on the Filthy Few Motorcycle Club in February.
Tauranga Police charged the club with operating unlicensed premises as a place of resort for alcohol consumption, and operating unlicensed premises.
The club was also accused of having alcohol ready for sale.
The charges were a result of a police raid of the club’s Birch Avenue premises on February 17 where police seized large quantities of alcohol as members prepared to host the Metal Mania event at BayPark.
A fridge containing 407 bottles of alcohol was found near the bar inside the club and a large chiller holding 1698 beer bottles and 576 pre-mix alcohol drinks was found at the back of the club.
Inspector Karl Wright-St Clair says police believed the alcohol was to be illegally sold and seized it by executing a search warrant.
The search was led by Detective Sergeant Rob Lemoto who, along with Constable Cameron Price, gave evidence in court yesterday.
During the defended hearing, Filthy Few’s lawyer Paul Mabey, Q.C argued the motorcycle club could not be prosecuted as it had not been proven in court as a legal entity, despite the club being incorporated.
Judge Connell agreed saying that it was the prosecutions job to prove the club was incorporated.
“This could have been in the form of a certificate or something.
“I am also unable to establish if the alcohol was on the premises for the purpose of sale, or consumption, as I do not know how many members are in the club.”
Judge Connell says he had no idea how many members there were in the club, which made it hard for him to draw an inference on the charges.
“Also the rules of the club, which were provided as evidence, states alcohol on the premise is a gift from the club, alcohol is not to be brought into the club rooms and alcohol is not to be sold within the premise.
“This is contrary to the charges before the court.”
On the basis of these rulings and other findings, Judge Connell dismissed the charges.
In April 2010, police raided the pad and seized $19,000 worth of alcohol, which was being sold illegally at the club between 2008 and 2009.
Two club members pleaded guilty to charges of unauthorised sale of alcohol and were fined $2000.

ILLINIOS - Liberty motorcycle club victim arrested in similar May incident

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The man arrested in a Saturday shooting at a Liberty motorcycle club is now charged with two counts of attempted-first degree murder.
One of the victims in the weekend shooting was also arrested in May in connection to a robbery related to the motorcycle clubs.
Michaelangelo Gomez was in court Monday morning for an initial appearance related to the weekend incident at the Midwest Percenters Clubhouse on Main Street in Liberty.
Gomez is charged two counts of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated battery with a firearm and aggravated discharge of a firearm.
A judge set his bond at $500,000.
Gomez is due back in court at 10 a.m. Thursday.
A document filed by the Adams County State's Attorney revealed the names of the two victims. They are Robert Morrell of Hannibal and Timothy Jackson of Roodhouse. Barnard said that neither of the two men are being investigated in connection with the weekend incident.
In an interview Monday, Morrell's mother, Brenda Morrell, also of Hannibal, said that her son was released from the hosptial and is recovering.
"He's doing OK, but he's sore," she said.
Police said this weekend that their injuries were not life threatening.
Jackson was charged in May along with three other men in connection with an armed robbery.
Jackson is scheduled for a court hearing in December on those charges filed in May.

http://www.connecttristates.com/news/story.aspx?id=818782

ILLINOIS - Activity at motorcycle club has Liberty residents concerned

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LIBERTY, Ill. -- For the second time in five months, a Liberty motorcycle club is in the news, and that has some in the eastern Adams County town worried.
"I wasn't (worried) before," said a neighbor who declined to be identified. "The old group was really nice. I don't know about these new guys.
"Any time you have a shooting, you are scared."
Adams County Sheriff's deputies responded to a shooting at the Midwest Percenters Clubhouse, 601 S. Main, at 5:55 a.m. Saturday. Two people, a 34-year-old white male and a 55-year-old white male, were transported to Blessing Hospital with what Adams County Sheriff Brent Fischer said were non-life threatening injuries. Michael Angelo Gomez, 41, of Quincy was taken into custody in rural Liberty at 7:25 a.m. and charged with attempted murder, aggravated discharge of a firearm and aggravated battery.
In late May, four men were taken into custody at the club and later arrested in connection with an armed robbery of two male Quincy motorcyclists. A semi-automatic handgun and a loaded sawed-off shotgun were seized at the club during the investigation.
All of that activity has some neighbors on edge. The neighbor, a life-long Liberty resident, said her boyfriend heard "five or six shots" as he was getting ready to go to work on Saturday morning.
"He told me to lock the doors," she said.
A man who was at the Ayerco station across the street from the club headquarters when the shooting occurred thought he heard something happening.
"It was like hitting a hammer on a pipe," he said. "It happened four or five times. (The store clerk) said she heard some people arguing outside earlier. She had me go out there, but I didn't hear any yelling when I went out.
"About a half hour later one of the club guys came in and said two guys got shot. He said one of them got grazed in the head and the other was shot twice. He didn't seem like it was any big deal."

The man, who had stopped at the gas station before going to work at a nearby feed mill, doesn't fear the club members.
"They don't have any guns over there anyway," he said. "They took them all away from them (after the May incident)."
The man said that the shooter was outside the club north of the building and fired into the back of the structure, which is at the corner of South Main and Pittsfield. Bullet holes were visible in a glass door at the rear of the club. Adams County Sheriff's deputies used a metal detector to search an area behind the building during their investigation Saturday morning.
A portion of the parking lot north of the building was roped off with crime scene tape. One car and one van were in the parking lot.
By Saturday afternoon, the club was open again. The police tape was removed. Several motorcycles were parked in front of the building and one of the garage doors on the front of the former service station was open.
According to the group's website, the Midwest Percenters were founded in Liberty in 1965 by Bud Goodwin.
"We are an independent and self-supporting club," the website says. "We are not 1%ers as many have asked. ... The club has changed names over the 40 plus years since its start with each name change and the colors have changed as well. Throughout the years the club has maintained its main reason for its its existence, BROTHERHOOD!"
According to the American Motorcyclist Association, 99 percent of motorcyclists are law-abiding citizens while the other 1 percent are outlaws, which is what "we are not 1%ers" refers to.
The woman said the club has been headquartered at its current location for two years.
"The first year or so, they never bothered anything," she said. "I don't know what has happened."
-- dobrien©whig.com/221-3370
http://www.whig.com/story/19933554/activity-at-motorcycle-club-has-liberty-residents-concerned

PIC OF THE DAY

NRA: The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina

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http://youtu.be/-taU9d26wT4
The video you will see on this web site is horrifying. The crimes committed against law-abiding gun owners are beyond comprehension. The arrogance of anti-gun politicians and government officials and their hate of freedom will churn your stomach.

The law is the law, the Constitution is the Constitution. If ONE local mayor or police chief can decide what the Second Amendment means, it opens the door to tyranny—where ANY mayor or police chief can say what the Second Amendment means.

You've seen this brand of abuse of freedom in the history books—in the pages about days of gun confiscations leading to the terror of Stalin, Mao and Hitler. But you'd never in a million years think it could happen in America.
Well, it can and it did. And it will happen again unless we take action today.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, Police Superintendent P. Eddie Compass unleashed a wave of confiscations with these chilling words:
"No one will be able to be armed. We will take all weapons. Only law enforcement will be allowed to have guns."

Thousands of firearms were then confiscated from law-abiding gun owners. The police gave no paperwork or receipts for those guns. They just stormed in and seized them.

With your help we're going to make the first time in New Orleans the LAST time in America. Thank you!

Now, one year later, these crimes against gun owners have snowballed into a far greater threat to our freedoms.
Even though NRA secured a court order demanding their immediate and unconditional return, almost every single confiscated firearm remains locked in government trailers.

With the stroke of a pen, Mayor Nagin and Police Superintendent Compass are getting away with "murder"—a savaging of the second, fourth and fourteenth amendments of our Constitution. And they have put America on notice that they're going to keep seizing lawfully owned guns under any pretense.

New Orleans gun owners are showing up at these trailers, with serial numbers of their firearms, expecting Mayor Nagin and his band of anti-gunners to respect the Federal courts.
They are met by stony-eyed bureaucrats who say serial numbers aren't enough—and that gun owners now need PROOF OF PURCHASE of these firearms.
How many of those gun owners do you think had original receipts for those firearms? And even if they did, how many do you think could find those receipts in the wreckage of a hurricane?
Many of these firearms were passed down from father to son, generation to generation. Some are precious heirlooms. Some are collector's pieces won in our wars. And they were all lawfully owned and they must be returned to their owners.
With your help we're going to make the first time in New Orleans the LAST time in America. Thank you!

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CA - Rapist Detective Takes The Easy Way Out

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By Andrew Khouri

Los Angeles Times

A 26-year-old rape victim stood before a subdued San Bernardino County courtroom Friday, and read a carefully drafted statement addressed to the former Westminster police detective who kidnapped and raped her two years earlier.
“I forgive you,” she said, choking up.
But Anthony Orban, 33, was not there. Hours before, at 2:49 a.m., Orban was found unresponsive in his cell at the Central Detention Center in San Bernardino, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said. He was declared dead at the scene.
His attorney, James Blatt, said he was informed that Orban hanged himself. The Sheriff’s Department declined to reveal details of Orban’s death, which was under investigation.
The rape victim told the court she suffered post-traumatic stress disorder for two years and lost four months of her life to shock. She criticized Orban for failing to take responsibility for his actions, alluding to his claims that he suffered a blackout allegedly induced by the antidepressant Zoloft.

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FOR THE RECORD:
Zoloft rape case: An article in the Oct. 27 LATExtra section about the death of a former Westminster police detective convicted of kidnapping and rape said that California law considers an alcohol-induced blackout voluntary intoxication, “which does meet the criteria for legal insanity.” The sentence should have said that voluntary intoxication does not meet the criteria.

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“While I was trying to get past my rage and shame and feelings of worthlessness, you maintained that you weren’t responsible for your actions,” she read.
Orban had testified that he had no recollection of abducting the waitress from the Ontario Mills Mall, then raping her near a Fontana self-storage lot in April 2010.
Zoloft, the Iraq War veteran said, triggered hallucinations and suicidal and homicidal fantasies in the days leading up to the attack.
Experts for both sides agreed during the trial that Orban suffered some form of blackout during the attack. But clinical psychologist Craig Rath, a witness called by the prosecution, testified that it had more to due with alcohol. On the day of the attack, Orban and a friend ordered eight margaritas and two pitchers of beer while barhopping, according to evidence presented at trial.
“He was not insane,” Rath testified during the sanity phase of the trial. “He understood the nature and quality of his acts and could distinguish between right and wrong.”
California law considers alcohol-induced blackout voluntary intoxication, which does meet the criteria for legal insanity.
Jurors convicted Orban of kidnapping, rape and multiple counts of sexual assault. He could have faced a sentence of more than 200 years, but his sentencing was on hold while a judge looked into allegations of juror misconduct.
Superior Court Judge Shahla S. Sabet told the court Friday that she had been prepared declare no jury misconduct took place, reject a motion for a new trial and sentence Orban to 82 years to life in prison, then tack on an additional 95 years.
After court, Blatt said he and his client had no prior knowledge that Sabet was prepared to deny a motion for a new trial. Orban, Blatt said, nonetheless had a feeling it was coming and that he would spend the rest of his life in prison as a convicted sex offender and a former police officer. Blatt said he last spoke to Orban about a month ago.
“All of us knew” suicide “was a possibility,” Blatt told reporters outside court. “But when it happens it is a shock.”
Retired Salvation Army Maj. Bill Nottle said he saw Orban on Thursday afternoon. He said his demeanor was what he had come to understand as normal: “very tired” due to what his actions and trial imposed upon his family.
After the victim spoke, Blatt told her and the court that the Orban family is “truly sorry” for their relative’s actions and that they have been praying for her. Blatt added that Orban had expressed to him his “great remorse and shame for his actions.”
Outside court, Deputy Dist. Atty. Debbie Ploghaus said that Orban took the “easy way out,” and made the day in court about him, when it should have belonged to the victim, who was scheduled to read her statement.
Standing in front of a group of reporters on the second floor of the Rancho Cucamonga courthouse, the rape victim said she felt sorry for Orban’s family after hearing the news, but also that “it felt good” to express her feelings and forgive Orban.
Still, she yearned for more.
“I really wanted to tell him myself,” she said calmly. “That would have been the ultimate closure.”

Seattle Police Now Have Drones Flying

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It is ridiculous to see the out of control Seattle Police Department now wants to play with flying drones and spend, spend, spend your tax dollars.
There seems to be no limit for police to spend and splurge on creating their own little army and airforce just so they can feel good and important
commanding their fleet.
Nothing is too expensive to acquire. It is about time that citizens demand accountability and transparency in
having a right to inspect and control the ever growing skyhigh police budget.
It is a good thing that some people in Seattle are not putting up with this and demanding answers and some common sense from officials.
Here is the RT article:
Seattle Police Plan to Deploy Spy Drones
26 October, 2012
The rainy skies of Seattle are likely to soon be a whole lot drearier. The FAA has approved the local police department to start using surveillance drones for law enforcement, but protesters are making it clear that they’re willing to put up a fight.
The Seattle Police Department displayed a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on Thursday that they intend on using soon to monitor criminal activity across the city, but opponents of drone use came out in droves to protest the proposed plans.
The SPD is one of the only law enforcement agencies given the go-ahead by the Federal Administration Agency to show officers the ins-and-outs of UAVs, and the department hopes that soon they will be able to save lives and make the city more secure by actually deploying drones across town.
So far the department has already outlined an operations manual that they hope they’ll have a chance to adhere to soon, describing in detail how they hope to install an unmanned aerial system across the city to help photograph crime scenes, conduct search and rescue missions, monitor traffic accidents and even aid with natural disaster responses. Putting an extra set of police eyes — remote-controlled ones, at that — has put a fair share of Seattle residents ill at ease, though.
“We are not going to tolerate this in our city. This is unacceptable,” anti-drone advocate Emma Kaplan told Assistant Chief Paul McDonagh at Thursday’s unveiling.
The Seattle Times says another protester in attendance, identified as General Malaise, said, “We don’t trust you with the weapons you do have,” let alone new ones that are still being developed.
According to the paper, Thursday’s community meeting held to identify the public opinion of the program “was taken over by protesters,” leaving McDonagh with only a small chunk of time to talk about his plans.
The city says they have no intent on using UAVs for any unlawful surveillance purposes, but the bad rap drones have received as of late — made only worse with military versions of the drones overseas executing as many as hundreds of civilians in recent years — has left Seattle residents saying they have good reason to oppose domestic use.
Even if unarmed, drones are a cause of big concern for some. The Seattle Police Department says they have every intent “to make reasonable effort to not invade a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy,” and that never will any police drones “supersede the issuance of a warrant when needed.”
“UAS operators and observers will ensure and will be held accountable for ensuring that operations of the UAS intrude to a minimal extent upon the citizens of Seattle,” the drafted operations manual reads.
As the technology is still being tested, though, opponents say it’s not clear what the department could be able to get away with.
“The ways that they say they can use the drones is too broad,” ACLU of Washington Deputy Director Jennifer Shaw tells the Seattle Times. “They have a list of different emergencies and then a catchall phrase saying the drones can also be used in other situations if they get permission.”
Even what isn’t outline, she says, could eventually be added.
“So long as it is a policy, it can be changed. An ordinance cannot be changed at will and is the only way we can be sure there is meaningful input,” she said.
Earlier this month, the Sherriff of Alameda County, California asked the US Department of Homeland Security for as much as $100,000 in funding so he could add a drone to his own department’s arsenal. Sherriff Greg Ahern told NBC News that UAVs are “Very valuable to any tactical officer,” because they could aid in identifying everything from how a suspect is dressed to what avenues of escape are possible.
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What are your thoughts on the Seattle Police Department having drones? What about the police department in your town?

When Boston Police Spy on Free Speech, Democracy Suffers

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This post was submitted to CopBlock.org by utilizing the submission tab. It’s an eye opening piece by Nancy Murray about police monitoring. Isn’t it scary to know that if you preach peace or care about veteren’s rights the police will monitor you, even after they are the only ones doing something illegal? Don’t believe me, continue reading .

By Nancy Murray, Education Director, ACLU of Massachusetts at 9:51am

Originally posted by boston.com.
Psst! Check out this super-secret Boston Police “intelligence report”:
Local activists have been trying to get ‘celebrity guest speakers’ (Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon) for the March 24th demonstration, but at this time it appears that they have been unable to book any of these speakers for their event.
But some well-known speakers will be there. According to this intelligence report,” compiled by the Boston police under the heading “Criminal Act–Groups-Extremists,” among them will be Cindy Sheehan and a “BU professor emeritus/activist” whose name is redacted–it was the late Howard Zinn.
These excerpts come from one of several documents and videotapes obtained through a lawsuit brought against the Boston Police Department by the ACLU of Massachusetts and Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. We are making these criminal “intelligence” reports public today, along with a report analyzing its significance–and avideo of some of the peace activists who have been targeted.
We now have proof of what peace groups and activists have long suspected: Boston Police officers have worked within the local fusion spying center, the Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC), to monitor the lawful political activity of local peace groups and track their movements and beliefs. This information has been retained in searchable electronic “intelligence” reports bearing labels such as “Groups – Civil Disturbance,” “Groups–Extremists,” “HomeSec-Domestic” under the heading “Criminal Act.”
Under what interpretation of the US and Massachusetts Constitutions can the non-violent First Amendment activity of groups like Veterans for Peace and United for Justice with Peace be routinely classified as a criminal act?
If you have glanced at the US Senate subcommittee report on fusion centers that came out earlier this month, you may not be surprised to hear that Boston’s fusion center has been collecting dubious “intelligence” and violating civil liberties in the process.
Fusion centers were set up in the aftermath of 9/11 to facilitate the sharing of “terrorism-related” information among local, state, and federal law enforcement and private entities. But the Senate subcommittee report finds that the nation’s 70 or so fusion centers (the exact number is in dispute–DHS, which contributed the seed funding for the centers, doesn’t know how many exist today) have not uncovered a single terrorist plot.
Indeed, the spying centers have produced “nothing of value,” and instead needlessly duplicate the “more efficient information-sharing process already in place between local police and the FBI-led Terrorist Screening Center.”
Their output is often, in the words of one government official, “a bunch of crap.”

Much of it is also "potentially illegal," according to the US Senate report, because it falls foul of federal privacy regulations and Department of Homeland Security guidelines that forbid the routine monitoring of groups and individuals unless there is reason to suspect them of criminal activity.
The BRIC's own guidelines say the same thing.
And yet we now know that the BRIC, local and state police and the FBI have worked together to monitor and create "intelligence reports" on groups and individuals where there is no demonstrated link to crime or terrorism. There are indications that these illegal reports have been shared around the country, just how widely we don't know.
Given the secrecy surrounding the "information-sharing" surveillance systems that have been erected since 9/11 and the lack of any accountability mechanisms, we can't determine exactly where reports generated by the BRIC end up. Inaccurate information could have found a permanent home in a myriad government--and even private--databases, with harm to lives that can never be repaired.
The documents we received in response to our lawsuit demonstrate that the BRIC cannot effectively police itself.
According to the BRIC's guidelines, "intelligence reports" that do not reference criminal activity should be destroyed after 90 days. And yet we obtained reports that should never have been written in the first place and were still being retained after five years. Why should it take an ACLU/NLG lawsuit to highlight the BRIC's failure to enforce its own rules?
We know the political surveillance revealed in these documents wastes scarce tax dollars and police resources that would be better focused on building community trust and solving actual crimes.
And we know that political spying is bad for democracy.
You can view this videotape to hear some of the peace activists who have been monitored by the police or questioned about their personal beliefs talk about the "chilling impact" such surveillance can have on such core American values as freedom of expression and assembly.
Today, we are calling on the Boston Police to cease the routine surveillance of peaceful protests and the monitoring of individuals who take part in them.
And we are asking you to join us in demanding that reforms are put in place to ensure that there will be no policing of dissent in Massachusetts.
Let's work together to ensure that our Commonwealth--and all of America--remains a Constitutionally protected free speech zone.

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