I’m sure being JUST AS BACKWARDS as Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia in regards to personal freedoms and rights for legal immigrants is immensely cheering to the backwards xenophobic fuckwads who came up with the ridiculous ban.
I’m sure being JUST AS BACKWARDS as Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia in regards to personal freedoms and rights for legal immigrants is immensely cheering to the backwards xenophobic fuckwads who came up with the ridiculous ban.
No we goddamn weren’t. I wasn’t a Dubya fan, but I never thought he would take us into oblivion. This is not a right-left issue. Our new administration is run by fringe loonies, Nazis, and conspiracy nuts. Dubya never reached out to the likes of Alex Jones or shouted down a CNN reporter because they asked questions he…
Wish this didn’t sound crazy. If it comes out that the WH has signed off in ANY way with the cbp ignoring a court order and the rest of the GOP is unwilling to put any brake on that then I’m not sure where else we are headed.
The fact that there’s no clear legal framework for what’s happening means CBP (a profession that attracts even more power-tripping racists than the police) is free to do whatever they want. We got a preview of this with Gitmo; if you put your prisoners in legal limbo then there are no standards of behavior that you…
The problem is everyone looks at it and thinks “it’s just the border guards, not “it’s a rogue police force with legal authority over any part of the country within 100 miles of a coastline, border or other entry point - which covers 11 states in their entirety and 60% of the population of Trumpania”
Agreed. Refusing to follow a judicial order is terrifying.
This is where the judge needs to get off the bench, walk over to the marshals office, load a dozen of them into a van, take them to the airport and arrest the employees for contempt.
Do this Judge Judy style.
He even outright said that the goal of 9/11 was to draw America into a long running war of attrition and make the Muslim world resent us.
The fact that law enforcement is already defying the legislative and judicial branches and saying (incorrectly) that they only take orders from the president is fucking terrifying. Every jackass trying to downplay this as no big deal is horribly ignorant of history.
This was always OBL’s stated intentions. He was never going to win a physical war. He didn’t have the armament or the people. He knew that. So he set out to completely disrupt our way of life and have us make choices based on fear rather than intelligence.
The fact that CBP is ignoring court orders is insane. If any of this is a sign of impending dictatorship that’s it. And it’s getting little coverage combed to the ban itself.
The justice system has been working for years to disappear people. Our prisons are already internment camps for minorities. People only care now because Trump is fucking nuts.