He is quite literally the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. The fact that he participates in protests for human rights should tell you something about your beliefs.
It’s also the only way to actually defend one’s life 🤷🏾♀️
Again, these are convos that never occur when discussing white Europeans engaging in rebellion against tyranny
I’ve never seen a July 4th celebration where we reflect on how George Washington could’ve done it nonviolently
I honestly hate that we’ve normalized the idea that all opinions are valid. I think we should get back to telling ppl that they are ill informed & ignorant
That old saw about how “good times make weak men” is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they’re too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.
A few facts regardless of what side of the due process/deportation debate you're on raised by Vance:
1) Only reason Abrego Garcia case is a controversy is an immigration court blocked his deportation, and Trump Admin admitted he was "mistakenly" picked up by ICE.
2) SCOTUS ruled 9-0 (Thomas, Alito, etc.) that US must "facilitate" his return.
3) Ordinary deportations - sending someone back to their country of origin - are very quick and easy: it's done by a deportation "court" inside DOJ.
4) That's radically different than sending people to life in prison in a third country they have nothing to do with, based on allegations of criminality that are never proven. Due process is raised only with that.
5) SCOTUS also just ruled 9-0 (including Thomas, Alito, etc) that anyone Trump Admin wants to remove as an "alien enemy" under AEA first gets a habeas hearing to contest charges of gang membership.
6) A Trump-appointed judge in TX then, based on SCOTUS ruling, ordered AEA deportations of Venezuelans to El Salvador to cease pending a hearing.
These aren't "left-wing activist judges" doing this. It's also right-wing judges -- the ones most popular among the Right -- upholding the Bill of Rights (which has applied to everyone in the US, not just citizens, for at least 150 years).
I'm sorry but the world's wealthiest individual leveraging their wealth for political influence and power cannot claim victimhood when the inevitable backlash engulfs his business interests. The narcissistic entitlement here is off the charts.