Ed Helms

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SNAFU with Ed Helms · Snafu Season 2: Episode 2: Want to come to a party? · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

To be fair, if this surveillance focused only on the people who were illegally breaking into draft boards, well, that would be one thing. matched

But all sorts of protesters felt they were being watched, surveilled, simply for exercising their First Amendment right to free speech. matched

Here's John Rains. matched

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South West Asia. matched

There's a term for this. matched

When a government starts keeping tabs on people not because they're breaking the law, but because they're criticizing the government, it's called a police state. matched

John and Bonnie had the nagging feeling that America was becoming one. matched

But they had no way of knowing for sure. matched

That is, until they got a call from Bill Davidon, inviting them to a party. matched

had the eerie feeling that they were being watched by the FBI. matched

But what could be done about it? matched

It was incredibly hard to prove this was actually happening. matched

So people resigned themselves to this new reality. matched

But not everyone. matched

This is Bill Davidon. matched

Bill has passed away, but here he is in an interview from 2012. matched

Bill's activism started early. matched

When he was only 11 years old, he heard the mayor of Jersey City had banned a socialist from speaking there. matched

So he boarded a bus, all by himself, to protest, supporting a stranger's First Amendment rights. matched

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