'Criminalizing dissent is something that we should all be appalled with'

New York Post: "Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that Americans should 'be afraid of your government' after Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the FBI would probe a purported spike in threats to local school officials amid protests over mask mandates and the addition of critical race theory to curricula.

'Moms at school boards are being told that they’re criminals, potential domestic terrorists, for the crime of dissent,' Paul told 'Fox News Primetime,' 'and I think criminalizing dissent is something that we should all be appalled with.'

Sen. Rand Paul talks to Ben Domenech about the DOJ cracking down on concerned parents at school board meetings: "I think criminalizing dissent is something that we should all be appalled with." pic.twitter.com/NQmt1J9saM

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When host Ben Domenech asked Paul what he would say to Americans who are worried that 'if they go to their local school board and say the wrong thing, that they’re going to end up on some list that Merrick Garland goes after,' the senator answered in no uncertain terms.

'I would say be afraid. Be afraid of your government,' Paul said."