• ShoeThrower@lemmy.zip
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    USA has the Espionage Act. A violation of this law can be punishable by death, and whistleblowers and journalists have been targeted under this law in the past.

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      Roy Cohn, the guy who mentored Trump and was McCarthy’s second AND had his own Lavender Scare (while he himself was gay) got his claim to fame when he sent a Jewish couple to death over this exact thing