The Columbia deportation case is bad enough on its own — but the precedent is worse. People can be deported without breaking a law because of a vague reference to foreign policy.
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There are a fair number of Native Americans who have been caught up by ICE agents and accused of being 'illegal aliens'. That's Apaches, Navajos, Cherokees.
It’s kind of interesting - a green card holder can engage in almost any political speech on almost any topic without fear of deportation, and the exception isn’t even criticism of America, Americans, or American domestic policy.
After breaking the New York Times and Harvard, they'll replace it with their own “department of reality” that will be constantly telling us what to believe is real.
If Yarvin's concept of RAGE (Retire All Government Employees) sounds a lot like a more honest version of DOGE (Department Of Government Efficiency), which isn't even a real government department but rather a “cross-departmental” “temporary initiative” (Wikipedia), then that's no accident.
They have specific goals for breaking education and media, especially Harvard and the New York Times, as has been explained by neofascist “thinker” Curtis Yarvin on many occasions: “We do not see The New York Times and Harvard as divinely inspired in any sense.”
There can now be no doubt that the 🇺🇸 is sliding into an authoritarian state. A chainsaw has been taken to all of the cornerstones of a functioning democracy and it’s being destroyed in plain sight with NO ONE whose job it is to uphold these values ACTUALLY DOING what is THEIR job.
Feels very Soviet/Russian, with 'enemies of the state' being vanished, or possibly ending up falling out of windows. Yet nobody dares to speak up, lest they are next.
If we do not protect this one person, then who do they have to come for before we feel it's personal enough?
I'd assume the ordering of authoritarian indignities (to most quickly move the Overton window) is always to infringe the 'usual suspects' first, those society is most used to turning our heads from as they're kicked around. New precedents can slide smoothly in on the same path, as eyes are averted.
I further assume this explains my subjective sense that people of color and women are speaking out most boldly. White men feel too comfortably far from it, at least for now, so they too easily dismiss the warning signs. Other groups less comfortable know procrastination and silence are not refuge.
Some may see these arrests as being about specific speech about soecific acts, but if it's not safe to merely speak of perceived injustice, wherever it occurs, that will eventually catch up to all of us.
If Government claims it may triage good speech from bad, it's saying implicitly that it DECIDES (and MIGHT CHANGE) what "good speech" is, as no such line exists in law. What IS written in the Constitution forbids infringing speech, and they're selectively ignoring THAT. That should scare us all.
My husband’s an attorney. His office’s hate crimes case against men who hung nooses & bananas in trees on a campus (when a young black woman was elected student council president) didn’t involve secret detainment, revoking of citizenship, nor withdrawal of funding for the college. Just sayin’.
The Columbia University graduate’s arrest is an attempt to destroy free thinking while murdering due process. The First Amendment is not about abridging the freedom of speech.
How about Bruce Blakeman on CNN last night claiming he had evidence that Khalil is "paid by a terrorist organization." In case you're wondering, he did not provide evidence.
Hey Tim: Green Card or Certificate of Citizenship? Mine is the latter but I have no reason to believe it will be honoured any more than the Green Card. trump's wants US Citizenship to be at his will. That's what this is about. I live on the Borderlands I'm toast til I get to Milk River.
Greatly respect you. In this case we have a person on a Visa in the USA inciting violence and spreading hate on College campuses. I’m sorry, he is a dangerous problem and because of his lying and rhetoric Jewish students were attacked. This is unacceptable and this is not protesting within the law
Ever since I read ‘Tyranny’ I’ve been dreading this moment. Now that it is here it must be resisted and rejected by anyone and everyone in the free world.
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Immigration & Nationality Act (rights to live & work in the country, protections against discrimination & unlawful removal).
They are also entitled to due process under U.S. law (ensures fair treatment in legal proceedings).
>Yarvin said that after a hypothetical authoritarian president was inaugurated in January, “you can’t continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April”.
>Back in 2012, Yarvin put forth his own idea to “reboot” the government, which he called “Retire All Government Employees,” or RAGE.
2) True also: about half of the population strongly supports these abuses.
Then, the terrifying question is: how can a nation reconcile # 1 and 2?
Too many resemblances to 1861…
If we do not protect this one person, then who do they have to come for before we feel it's personal enough?
(I've been there a few times and even went to university there - but I certainly have no plans to travel there now.) 🥵🥶
Holder vs. Humanitarian Law Project 2010, decision