We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are... being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.

If you substitute terrorism for communism, we are getting the same rhetoric.

They really believed that these veterans were going to come to Washington with rifles and armaments and create a coup, storm the White House, kill the president, take over the government.

Nixon and the FBI saw VVAW as a major, major threat to the United States, ... Home To War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement.