Our country is broke(n), our rulers are getting rich(er) b/c of it & a Convention of States fixes it. And the 10th Amendment = 90% of what DC does is illegal.
@RandPaul What federal benefits do they receive??
Also, what about the military industrial complex? Foreign aid to countries who will end up trying to kill us? Interference in other countries? Congress during shutdowns?
FYI this is the test Trump is bragging about “acing” 4 times
It’s a fucking embarrassment that his handlers are still letting him gloat about this like it’s some extreme act of intellect
🚨This is one of the most disturbing ICE brutality videos I’ve seen in a long time…
Another angle of this incident shows ICE agents suddenly rushing protesters outside the Newark ICE Facility, then continuously shoving U.S. citizens toward the wheels of a MOVING TRUCK…
until an activist’s LEG is run over.
And the most disturbing part?
The protesters are not charging the agents… The agents are the ones creating the escalation.
And not only that, they are forcing civilians backward toward a MOVING VEHICLE, escalating a situation that was not violent until THEY made it violent.
That is reckless, dangerous force.
So, let’s go over the obvious constitutional violations happening in this video…
1. First Amendment violations, because Americans have the constitutional right to peacefully protest the government.
2. Fourth Amendment violations, because federal agents cannot use excessive or objectively unreasonable force against nonviolent civilians.
3. Fifth Amendment due process concerns, because the government cannot arbitrarily target, intimidate, or assault citizens exercising protected rights.
4. Federal officers can also face liability under 18 U.S. Code § 242 for depriving people of constitutional rights “under color of law.”
When armed federal agents create chaos themselves, then use that chaos to justify violence against civilians, that is an abuse of power.
Call your representatives.
Demand accountability.
Allow me to be the first to congratulate the MAGA morons, who spent years howling about the $1.7B that Obama returned to Iran.
Your 4D chess master is handing Iran $300B, to open the Strait of Hormuz, that Obama kept open for free.
Brilliant!
@TheJFreakinC What say you, @SenRandPaul? Are you in the ‘capitulate and you won’t get hurt’ corner, or the ‘no exceptions to the 4th Amendment exist here’ corner?
@sentdefender NATO sent very diplo-mad letters telling Russia they’d been very naughty indeed, but PiNG’ing diplomats is as much as you can do without a gun in your hand. Romania didn’t hesitate, it seems.
🚨BREAKING: A manager at a local diner asked ICE agents for a warrant before they searched a private areas of the business… and their response… slamming him to the ground, and putting a knee in his back, leaving him injured.
Because apparently exercising your constitutional rights is now being treated like obstruction.
According to witnesses, ICE agents were chasing someone who ran into the restaurant after a traffic stop. The manager reportedly told them they could not just storm through the kitchen without judicial authorization.
Because the Fourth Amendment is still a thing… even though ICE agents keep pretending it isn’t.
Law enforcement cannot just search private areas of a business because they feel like it. A kitchen, in a restaurant, is not a public space.
When agents do not have consent, exigent circumstances, or a valid warrant signed by a judge… then managers have every right to question that search.
That is literally how constitutional protections work.
And the fact that the manager was injured, after asserting those rights, should outrage everyone.
Rights either apply to everyone… or they are not rights at all.
Leaked documents reveal BusPatrol’s plan to equip tens of thousands of school buses with license plate readers and share the data with law enforcement. https://t.co/MY6OaPCOMV
@SenRandPaul Nope. DHS is murdering, illegally detaining, & violating the Constitutional rights of Americans, then calls them “domestic terrorists,” then quietly dismisses the charges when video proves DHS lied.
Dems are blocking Trump’s Stasi. You, of all people, should be supporting them.
This is Ken Paxton's mugshot.
He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud.
He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery.
He was impeached by his own party for corruption.
Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas.
Together we will stop him.
@reason 2/2 ‘if you don’t do anything wrong then you have nothing to fear,’ then you are an enabler of tyranny.
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”
@reason 1/2 “When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Every person in America is scared when they see a person with a badge. The Founders are rolling in their graves because of it. And if your first thought was…