ABSTRACT
CRACKDOWN ON DISSENT When we hear terms like sedition or treason, it can conjure up visions of British redcoats or powdered wig magistrates, but these are contemporary crimes,1 and enforcement against them after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, addressed issues of national security, censorship, and the limits of free expression. A clinical nurse working for the Veterans Administration in New Mexico encountered a modern definition in 2006. Ms. Laura Berg of Albuquerque found her office computer seized by federal agents and learned from a Human Resource manager the confiscation from her office was because “the Agency is bound by law to investigate and pursue any act which potentially represents sedition.”
