List of US Political Prisoners

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Disagreeing with the IRS

• William Benson -- co-author of The Law that Never Was
• Karl Bray -- died in prison in retaliation for printing a booklet
• Edward Lewis Brown
• Elaine Brown
• Charles Thomas Clayton -- physician released in 2011
• John Cheek -- airline pilot released in 1992
• George Hansen -- US Congressman, conviction overturned, health ruined by diesel therapy, died in 2014
• Sherry Peel Jackson -- ex-IRS person who tried to disprove allegations that the IRS was built on a lie and didn't succeed, in retaliation for sharing her findings
• Gordon Kahl -- released in 1978; murdered in 1983
• Janine Lindemulder -- released in 2009 after conviction for not filing
• Larken Rose -- imprisoned in retaliation for historical information video; released in 2006
• Irwin Schiff -- projected release date is in 2017
• Richard Simkanin -- died in prison
• Wesley Snipes -- actor released in 2013

Unapproved Medications

• Steve Kubby -- acquitted
• Peter McWilliams -- died in prison

Assertions of Sovereignty

• Russell Means -- later ran for the Libertarian presidential nomination
• Leonard Peltier -- two consecutive life sentences after a trial that Amnesty International classifies as unfair

Second Amendment

• Bobby Sands -- of the original Black Panthers, conviction overturend it 2001 after more than 30 years.

Whistleblowing

• Sherry Peel Jackson -- for telling the world what she found out about the tax code
• Chelsea Manning, nee Bradley Manning -- for exposing wrongdoing by the US Military

Journalism

• Barrett Brown -- reported on documents that had already been leaked

Suspicious Charges

• Phil Smart -- Texas LP candidate arrested before election day during more than one election in retaliation for simply running for office

Miscellaneous

• Jeremy Alcede, for not surrendering his personal Facebook account to a third party. As of this writing being given a blatantly harmful diet, presumably in retaliation for his outspoken political views before his company's bankruptcy. http://www.naturalnews.com/049681_Jeremy_Alcede_Facebook_password_human_rights.html

External Links

• Whiteout Press page on political prisoners and other victims