"[Amnesty International] also said it has a chilling effect on rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, saying Amnesty had spoken to people referred “largely because they expressed non-violent political beliefs”, including someone who said their employer referred them for their left-wing social media posts."
For more than a century until 1917, #Jews in the Russian empire were confined to the Pale of Settlement, mostly in what today is #Ukraine, #Belarus, #Moldova, & #Lithuania, & were terrorized by periodic #pogroms. Early in the 20th c, the czar’s #SecretPolice propagated (& are widely suspected of sponsoring) The Protocols of the Elders of #Zion, a vicious #antisemitic forgery that purported to expose a Jewish #conspiracy to take over the world & has inspired generations of #violent#antisemites.
I’m truly frightened… #desantis w/his own “private” force.
“Dems expressed fear in 2021, when DeSantis 1st proposed to reactivate the #stateguard dormant since WWII, that it would eventually become a paramilitary force beholden only to #florida ’s #authoritarian leader.
‘No gov should have his own handpicked #secretpolice ‘said Charlie Crist.”