@RedAlertFlorida @JournalistFact1@atrupar Why did you pretend in your original post like morals mattered to you? Such a disproportionate response with no process to examine whether they've committed a crime to warrant such! Even the bible determines wrath as a sin.
@BMeiselas@MeidasTouch Its to push the narrative that there's a distinction between them now and "the establishment" that did all the bad things. The reason so many people blindly trust them is because of buying into that distinction.
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
@Acyn Democracy does not mean the president, who won with 49% of the vote, gets unrestricted power. This is how the country has always worked. If these anti American scumbags hate that, they should get the fuck out.
@WizardBenjamin@thomaschattwill Due process is meant to tie the hands of those who would misuse power. Limitations on power are in the interest of any citizen that wants to preserve their rights. Please be aware that to establish authority to take away your right, they would need to concoct an excuse like this.
On Friday, the Trump administration tortured a man from New Hampshire.
Fabian Schmidt—a legal U.S. resident, an electrical engineer, a father—was detained at Logan Airport.
They stripped him naked. Denied him food, water, and medication. Threw him in a cold shower.
To this day, the DOJ has not filed charges against him.
Why? To coerce him into giving up his green card. A man with no ongoing legal issues. A legal resident of the United States just trying to go home.
This is third world behavior—it's cruelty for cruelty’s sake.
It’s a warning shot to every immigrant, every student, every doctor, and engineer who might want to come here: You are not safe.
This is not America.
not to defend the robber barons but Andrew Carnegie, the richest man of his era, gave away 90 percent of his wealth and funded the building of 2,811 libraries, and I’m afraid the current crop of oligarchs isn’t sending their best.
"The language that is being used has a specific resonance, which, historically, has been used to change regime type. It is important that the rights of human beings were violated. It is important that the rule of law was ignored. It is important that the executive is trying to define reality."
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