War
Against All Puerto Ricans by Nelson Denis, 2015, Excerpts
On March 9, 1948, J. Edgar
Hoover placed the Nationalist Party on the FBI list of organizations working to
subvert the US government. The passage of Public Law 53 (the Gag Law) was
nearly a word-for-word translation of Section 2 of the Anti-Communist US Smith
Act, and it authorized police and FBI to stop anyone on the street and to
invade any Puerto Rican home. If the police found a Puerto Rican flag, the
residents could all be arrested and jailed.
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