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Opposition party journalists and even a sitting U.S. Congressman - Matthew Lyon, a Republican Representative from Vermont - among others were jailed for intent and design to defame the government and President Adams.
(On second thought, some of them probably do dream of that.)
And the deportation powers of the Alien Act went well, well, beyond anything promised by the next Trumpening.
It's frankly wild that Adams has the reputation of a pluperfect liberal.
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Didn't work then won't work now.
Didn't Adams brother (attorney) represent the British soldiers involved in the "Boston Massacre"?
John Adams himself defended them, and successfully. That was a ticklish situation to be sure.
The ACLU used to have a John Adams Project that advocated for prisoners at GITMO, naming it that as a gesture to his defense of the Redcoats.
He had his pros and cons, and I put the Alien and Sedition Acts in the con category.
The Founders were a strange bunch. Brilliant but strange.
Fortunately we've never had any strange people in Texas ( where I'm from).
A lot of those 'strange' types had Gone to Texas, I recall reading. (Or maybe that doesn't count, technically, if it was still part of Mexico then?).
I don't know where the new strange people are coming from today, but I do hope they are out there somewhere.
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