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It's not uncommon in certain urban Massachusetts metropolitan to have the state police make up some phantom hacking & trespassing offenses and lock you up until you post $100K bail. Then have you face 35 years in prison and over a million dollars fine, if they don't like you being around there as insider-activist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz





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