Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/27/the-us-department-of-justice-h.html
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“Your appeal has failed, ex-citizen. Step in to the retort to be denatured.”
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So this is bad? But my stock investments are up. The market is great. The corona virus is totally under control. The wall is stopping border crossings from turning the US into a hive of scum and villainy.
/s
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Creating stateless unpersons by revoking their only valid citizenship is against international treaty, but what the hell!
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Also Soviet Union.
Most forms of political activism can be labeled terrorism when arguing in bad faith. It will be a very useful tool to punish dissidents.
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Does Il Douche care? He would probably consider that a bonus!
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During the Harper years, I think they were looking at revoking the citizenship of born Canadians, where they also had some half-assed citizenship from their parent’s country, which they might not have ever set foot in.
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You guys are slacking. Here in the Mother of Parliaments. we’ve already started stripping citizenship from natural-born citizens.
And no court case is required; it can be done on the say-so of a cabinet minister.
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It’s not a unique case in UK:
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Also of note:
In which he says diversity is un-American.
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I thought that barring naturalization fraud - this was illegal.
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Combine this latest move with Barr’s views on the primacy of the executive branch and on how an administration’s (or at least a Republican one’s) opponents should be regarded, and this is yet another in a series of disturbing developments.
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And then there are the worst-case scenarios: who could trust that the government would limit these cases to terrorists and sex offenders, and who gets to define what constitutes terrorism or a sex offense?
This is a dangerous nativist agenda no matter what way you slice it
And this is how the Three Strikes Laws were “camel-nosed” in. First, they submit a “get tough” law, and anyone who objects gets: “Are you soft on criminals? Do you like high crime rates?”
Then, they made things like burglary (a non-violent crime) part of the ‘3 Strikes’, and, again, if you objected you got “Do you think burglary should not be punished?” But of course that led to people stealing a bike or a slice of pizza literally getting 15 years in prison, especially when zealous prosecutors start perniciously upgrading misdemeanors to felonies.
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Why is our ‘Attorney General’ only giving speeches to religious groups? Talk about spitting in the face of the 1st Amendment.
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Legal-schmegal.
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Odds are that the “worst case scenarios” will soon be the standard scenarios.
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If they include countries that no longer exist, could this be applied to people who are no longer living? Can we suggest which case should be investigated first?
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Fuck Harper. He was/is an incompetent lying piece of garbage.
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See Egypt, where just a critical tweet is an act of terrorism.
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