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TrollBuster9090

(6,059 posts)
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 05:00 AM Apr 9

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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Smackdown2019

(1,284 posts)
9. Unfortunately he is our tyrant as well...
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 07:16 AM
Apr 9

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

(4,023 posts)
2. They are classified as domestic terrorist
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 05:23 AM
Apr 9

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

Scrivener7

(55,421 posts)
10. Jesus H! Here are their criteria, listed on page 14! (Thank you for pointing it out.)
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 07:57 AM
Apr 9
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

(59,597 posts)
5. Surprisingly, SCOTUS, including the 6 magat justices, ruled that the trump/Bondi admin can't...
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 05:54 AM
Apr 9

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

BeerBarrelPolka

(1,525 posts)
6. I
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 06:06 AM
Apr 9

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

brush

(59,597 posts)
7. We shall certainly see. If trump/Bondi don't, it'll be the most dire Constitutional crisis ever...
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 06:26 AM
Apr 9

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

(1,525 posts)
8. Yes
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 07:11 AM
Apr 9

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

brush

(59,597 posts)
13. We'll see if they defy the court in the high-profile case that at issue...
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 01:22 PM
Apr 9

and refuse to bring the manback from that prison.

eppur_se_muova

(38,920 posts)
14. Turnip has expressed admiration for Andrew Jackson, who effectively said "Now let them enforce it".
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 07:43 PM
Apr 9

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

(59,597 posts)
15. trump and Bondi'a DOJ are at the lynch pin of whether swe have...
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 08:29 PM
Apr 9

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

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