Watching the death penalty repeatedly called for on easily staged offenses has been, more than a red flag, a blinding red strobe light and a screeching alarm. They're looking to kill while the populace sits complacent.
Yup! This is all leading to creating a larger prison population to use as slave labor to make certain industries functional after Trump implements his deportation plan.
Just finished Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Law and yes, discrimination via the power of the state is what the Nazi political officials wanted. They didn’t want street brawls, they wanted clean, legal state-led separation.
Also marriage: The US Cable Act of 1922 stripping American women of their citizenship if they married Asian men, Jim Crow laws against miscegenation, the Nuremberg laws focused on marriage to Jews, Israel laws against Israeli and Palestinian marriages, laws until recently against gay marriage, etc
The other day, someone told me they don’t support trans rights because one gym allowed a trans woman who, it turned out, was on a sex offender registry.
Case-by-case basis, I said, but realized later...WHY was she a sex offender? WHO put her on the list? WHAT was the crime? I hadn’t even asked 😬
"we really need to tackle the role criminalization is going to play in everything this administration wants to do, because it is the beast that people are being fed to. It is the social fabric of fascism in this country."
Philippine activist Maria Ressa on Jon Stewart's podcast mentioned that the way the Duterte dictatorship decided to "get her" for her reporting and activism was by charging her with tax evasion and sentencing her to jail.
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And also why it’s important for people to reconcile themselves with Israel’s multiple classes of people and segregation of laws and rights.
Case-by-case basis, I said, but realized later...WHY was she a sex offender? WHO put her on the list? WHAT was the crime? I hadn’t even asked 😬
https://libertiesjournal.com/online-articles/democrats-paid-for-trumps-army/