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TrollBuster9090

(6,114 posts)
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 04:00 AM Apr 2025

Am I Missing Something Here? The U.S. Govt. Would Not Be Allowed To Round People Up On The Streets For Having TATTOOS

...and then throw them into a horrible prison for the rest of their lives, without a hearing or any sort. Regardless of whether they were U.S. citizens, landed immigrants, or undocumented aliens. No hearing, no evidence, no habeas corpus...NO JAIL! It's very simple.

So, is there a difference between rounding people up on the basis of their tattoos, and throwing them into an AMERICAN prison, and rounding people up on the basis of their tattoos, and throwing them into a FOREIGN prison, that's being paid to hold them?

That's imprisonment by PROXY. That's even WORSE than doing this with American prisons.

1. Why would ANYBODY think this is okay? And, more importantly

2. Are Trump's supporters really SO STUPID as to think that if the government is allowed to do this to THIS group of people, they're allowed to do it to ANY group of people? (Okay, don't answer that...)

Interesting. For half a century the gun nuts have been filling their basements with guns, claiming they're doing it to defend against 'tyranny.' Well, this is the closest thing I've ever seen to tyranny, and those turdbrains are nowhere in sight.

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Am I Missing Something Here? The U.S. Govt. Would Not Be Allowed To Round People Up On The Streets For Having TATTOOS (Original Post) TrollBuster9090 Apr 2025 OP
Because he's their tyrant. Buddyzbuddy Apr 2025 #1
Unfortunately he is our tyrant as well... Smackdown2019 Apr 2025 #9
They are classified as domestic terrorist Tickle Apr 2025 #2
welcome to the new world markie Apr 2025 #3
Jesus H! Here are their criteria, listed on page 14! (Thank you for pointing it out.) Scrivener7 Apr 2025 #10
"I Am Your Retribution" BidenRocks Apr 2025 #4
Surprisingly, SCOTUS, including the 6 magat justices, ruled that the trump/Bondi admin can't... brush Apr 2025 #5
I BeerBarrelPolka Apr 2025 #6
We shall certainly see. If trump/Bondi don't, it'll be the most dire Constitutional crisis ever... brush Apr 2025 #7
Yes BeerBarrelPolka Apr 2025 #8
And yet, that is exactly what has happened. So now what? Scrivener7 Apr 2025 #11
We'll see if they defy the court in the high-profile case that at issue... brush Apr 2025 #13
Turnip has expressed admiration for Andrew Jackson, who effectively said "Now let them enforce it". eppur_se_muova Apr 2025 #14
trump and Bondi'a DOJ are at the lynch pin of whether swe have... brush Apr 2025 #15
Just like russian occupied regions Comrade Citizen Apr 2025 #12

Smackdown2019

(1,336 posts)
9. Unfortunately he is our tyrant as well...
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 06:16 AM
Apr 2025

He maybe their by claim purposes, but he is ours as well, by unclaim purposes... 1771 King Of England was every colonists, but in 1776, we denounced the King in the colonies, unfortunately then, there were many that supported the King in the Colonies.....

 

Tickle

(4,131 posts)
2. They are classified as domestic terrorist
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 04:23 AM
Apr 2025

gang, so the rules have changed. That's how I understand it

Scrivener7

(58,338 posts)
10. Jesus H! Here are their criteria, listed on page 14! (Thank you for pointing it out.)
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 06:57 AM
Apr 2025
ADDITIONAL IDENTIFIERS
Homeland Secw-ity Investigations, Chicago Field Office, has obtained additional information to help identify TdA members:
• Typically males in the age range of 18-25 years old;
• Dressed in high-end w-ban street wear;
• Favor the Chicago BullsusPERbasketball jersey, specifically Michael JordanUSPERjerseyswith the number "23", and Jordan "Jump Man"
footwear/sneakers; and/ or
• Often wear sports attire from U.S. professional sports teams with Venezuelan nationals on them


These are the criteria they feel warrants kidnapping people from the street and shipping them to a Salvadorean torture prison!

Aside from being monstrous, this is just STUPID.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
5. Surprisingly, SCOTUS, including the 6 magat justices, ruled that the trump/Bondi admin can't...
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 04:54 AM
Apr 2025

Last edited Wed Apr 9, 2025, 07:25 PM - Edit history (1)

snatch and deport people off the street without allowing them due process via a lawyer/court hearing. Everyone must be allowed that.

BeerBarrelPolka

(2,173 posts)
6. I
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 05:06 AM
Apr 2025

I agree with you that the SC wrote that. My question is, will this administration follow that rule?

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
7. We shall certainly see. If trump/Bondi don't, it'll be the most dire Constitutional crisis ever...
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 05:26 AM
Apr 2025

as the admin disobeying it will be their attempt to institute their brand of fascism by challenging all the checks and balances designed into our system to stop them.

If the system allows it, they win and it's all over for our democracy.

And the fat, orange, bloviating, mile-a-minute-lying criminal, adjudicated rapist is so not worth it.

We're going to find out soon enough as that blond bribe-taking Bondi, the AG, acts as trump's personal attorney instead of the independent head of the Justice Department.

BeerBarrelPolka

(2,173 posts)
8. Yes
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 06:11 AM
Apr 2025

Yes, we will see. I'm just concerned trump has more to offer her (pardon, money, private sector job, etc).

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
13. We'll see if they defy the court in the high-profile case that at issue...
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 12:22 PM
Apr 2025

and refuse to bring the manback from that prison.

eppur_se_muova

(40,989 posts)
14. Turnip has expressed admiration for Andrew Jackson, who effectively said "Now let them enforce it".
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 06:43 PM
Apr 2025

The quote is apocryphal, but Jackson's open defiance was not. Some very interesting history at the link, including that SC and GA were making moves toward secession in the 1830's.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
15. trump and Bondi'a DOJ are at the lynch pin of whether swe have...
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 07:29 PM
Apr 2025

a democracy or their version of fascism. We'll see what the criminals do.

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