Criminalized dissent
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The act of a any form of [governing body] or leader exercising punishment and/or prosecution towards an individual seeking or demonstrating protest of that governing body in any way, regardless of legality.
When any form of governing body or leader utilizes, mobilizes, and/or enables militant and/or police forces to [detain] and imprison citizen(s) regardless of applicable constitutional rights or pursuit of trial as a direct or indirect result of citizen(s) exercising any form of protest against governing rules and/or laws, regardless of how oppressive or not those rules and/or laws are.
The process that any form of governing body or leader takes in order to [enact] any and all laws needed to detain and imprison civilian(s) for the need of placating the perceiving general public and using influence to create the idea that it is [permissible] to do so even though it may [override] constitutional rights. (However, legal action is not required.)
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