On: 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech

[Manuel_D]

This is just a nonsensical question. The US Revolutionary War was a war. Whether or not there were non violent protests happening contemporaneously doesn't change the fact that it was a war.

[mafuy → Manuel_D]

No. It became a war, but civil wars tend to not start all at once and out of the blue. What would the situation look like at the very beginning?