História escondida

During World War I, millions of Americans more or less lost their minds as the government stirred up a hysterical frenzy of "patriotic" oppression. Among the countless outrages, which included everything from lynchings to an almost total suppression of First Amendment rights under federal and state sedition statutes, was this atrocity: Some "religious people opposed to war were thrown in jail, kept in chains and given a diet of bread and water until they renounced their religious convictions." (Michael Linfield, Freedom Under Fire: U.S. Civil Liberties in Times of War (1990), p. 34.