A George Mason University student who got a visit from President Donald Trump’s Secret Service after publishing an essay on his blog was nonplussed, telling Salon that the attention might even help him land a job even as First Amendment experts say the visit fits in a larger campaign by the administration aimed at intimidating its critics.
Nicholas Decker, an economics PhD student at George Mason University, was visited by the Secret Service after the university referred the student to federal law enforcement for what the university characterized as “evaluation of criminal behavior.” That was apparently because Decker published an essay, titled "When Must We Kill Them?," on his blog posing the question of when violence becomes justified in the face of authoritarianism.
