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It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America

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The book is filled with true first person accounts of how individual American citizens became the targets of their own government's vindictiveness for expressing their opposing political viewpoints, and the price each had to pay as a result. It is shockingly provocative. As the liner notes on the back of the book state, "It Did Happen Here is must reading for everyone who cares about protecting the rights and liberties upon which this country has been built...a compelling account of how close the Constitution can come to being extinquished - and what it takes to bring it back alive."

I am not in any way affiiliated with the author or publisher of this book, but I do know one of the individuals whose story is faithfully told in this book. He was a member of the Gainesville Eight, a Vietnam War protest group. Yet, I was quite overwhelmed by the stories told in this book about how far our government would go to suppress the freedoms of its dissenting citizens.

Reading this book was very much an eye opening experience for me.

Not only could 'it' (political repression) happen here, but it did happen here. Unfortunately, it is happening again on a large scale as the government holds people in secret and without trials. A much needed refresher course. This admirable oral history tells the stories of 33 mostly 'average' Americans punished under the color of law solely for their political activities.

Just three reviews. Four counting mine. Four people have read this book from Amazon...

When they say the People they Do NOT mean Blacks, Indians, people from any other country except this one oh and people who work for wages. Hmmmm...that only leaves rich white people!

WELL it won't happen again you say? IT'S HAPPENING NOW! It never stops. It never takes a vacation or a day off. It's gone on and on since Jamestown Colony and before!

This is your heritage and legacy. This is your future rich or poor.

What a deal....

Very good book indeed.

I hope Jesus comes back soon. I want to see WHO gets the hook....

For those of you have who have been, are now or will be targets of political repression this book will make your path a little easier by explaing to you that you are not alone.

Despite no real solutions offered on how to deal with the day to day hassles the government brings into your life, it was helpful to me to see what was done to others and how they reacted to it

This book will help both young and old further understand political repression in the US.


Also read The Price Of Discent, "Still Black, Still Strong, The Church Committee Summary of COINTELPRO and view the DVDs "Scandlize My Name", COINTELPRO 101 and "Passing It ON"


EXCELLENT WORK