"Vice president Spiro Agnew, as a part of a coordinated campaign to smear anti vietnam demonstrations, denounced the ‘anarchists and Communists’ in the New Mobe leadership for preying “upon the intentions of gullible men” and turning their “honest concern” into something “sick and rancid.” In a televised address on November 3, Nixon announced the support of America’s “silent majority” for he war and proclaimed that the “vocal minority” of the demonstraters “THREATENED THE COUNTRY’S FUTURE AS A FREE SOCIETY.” In response, 9,000 troops were brought to Washington and Marines set up machine guns on the Capitol steps."
— Bringing the War Home, the Weather Underground, the RAF, and Revolutionary Violence in the 60’s
This is what democracy looks like (in a police state)
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