New Jersey socialist Frederick Krafft was sentenced to five years in prison for trying to cause a mutiny in the U.S. armed forces by saying, “I can’t see how the government can compel troops to France. If it was up to me I’d tell them to go to hell. It’s a damn shame” on a street corner in Newark. Shortly after, on Oct. 27, 1917, U.S. Attorney General Thomas Gregory stated that this was just the beginning.
“I have spoken thus far, not of the legal penalties which attach to obstruction and disloyalty to this government.
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