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The right to commit crimes?
The United States Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution, ratified in 1791. It outlines the rights of citizens and states in relation to the government, and guarantees individual civil rights and liberties. The Bill of Rights includes the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury, the right to trial by jury in common law suits, and protection from being held to answer for a capital crime without a grand jury indictment.
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Good luck American tax-paying citizens, when youāve got traitors amongst youā¦ 
Top among the traitors is the current president.
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Iām outā¦ of this threadā¦
When you diminish the recent atrocious crimes going on, to hilight your argument, you lose my attention and all your integrity.
Youāre missing the point, which is that thereās a legal process to be followed without which we are all reduced to barbarism. Donald Trump is averting that process. Knowingly. Like the king that this country fought for its independence.
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I repeatā¦ ^
I havenāt diminished any crimes.
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Think about why I said you did.
The is was a visitor with a greencard which he would obviously have been denied if he had been honest about what kind of movement he was going to organize.
Yes, maāam.
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I should have addedā¦ āand get back to me ā.
Do you accept the distinction between the allegation of a crime and the conviction for a crime?
Do you accept the idea that one is innocent until proven guilty?
Do you accept the idea that there are limits to how a person can be punished for certain crimes?
A person with a greencard is a permanent resident, not a visitor.
Khalil Mahmoud became a permanent resident after marrying a US citizen. His wife is pregnant, and his child will also be a US citizen.
I was wrong about that then.
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Trump & Republicans are deporting alleged sex offenders and immigrants without any due process while inviting and embracing Andrew Tate & his brother who are obscene misogynists accused of sex trafficking. Also, MAGA worships Trump, a man held liable for sexual assault.
The Trump administration denied on Sunday that it had violated a court order by deporting hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to a prison in El Salvador over the weekend, saying that the president had broad powers to quickly expel them under an 18th-century law meant for wartime.
The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, also asserted in a statement that the federal courts āhave no jurisdictionā over the presidentās conduct of foreign affairs or his power to expel foreign enemies.
āA single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrier full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil,ā she said in a statement. It was unclear why she referred to an aircraft carrier, because all indications were that the Venezuelans had been flown to El Salvador.
And there you have it folks, the Trump regime sees itself as the supreme absolute power which is above the law. Itās wartime in America. Why? Because Trump says so.
Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trumpās Tyranny
By Ralph Nader
March 14, 2025
There are reasons why influential or knowledgeable Americans are staying silent as the worsening fascist dictatorship of the Trumpsters and Musketeers gets more entrenched by the day. Most of these reasons are simple cover for cowardice.
Start with the once-powerful Bush family dynasty. They despise Trump as he does them. Rich and comfortable George W. Bush is very proud of his Administrationās funding of AIDS medicines saving lives in Africa and elsewhere. Trump, driven by vengeance and megalomania, moved immediately to dismantle this program. Immediate harm commenced to millions of victims in Africa and elsewhere who are reliant on this U.S. assistance (including programs to lessen the health toll on people afflicted by tuberculosis and malaria).
Not a peep from George W. Bush, preoccupied with his landscape painting and perhaps occasional pangs of guilt from his butchery in Iraq. His signal program is going down in flames and he keeps his mouth shut, as he has largely done since the upstart loudmouth Trump ended the Bush familyās power over the Republican Party.
Then there are the Clintons and Obama. They are very rich, and have no political aspirations. Yet, though horrified by what they see Trump doing to the government and its domestic social safety net services they once ruled, mumās the word.
What are these politicians afraid of as they watch the overthrow of our government and the oncoming police state? Trump, after all, was not elected to become a dictatorādeclaring war on the American people with his firings and smashing of critical āpeopleās programsā that benefit liberals and conservatives, red state and blue state residents alike.
Do they fear being discomforted by Trump/Musk unleashing hate and threats against them, and getting tarred by Trumpās tirades and violent incitations? No excuses. Regard for our country must take precedence to help galvanize their own constituencies to resist tyranny and fight for Democracy.
What about Kamala Harris ā the hapless loser to Trump in Novemberās presidential election? She must think she has something to say on behalf of the 75 million people who voted for her or against Trump. Silence! She is perfect bait for Trumpās intimidation tactics. She is afraid to tangle with Trump despite his declining polls, rising inflation, the falling stock market and anti-people budget slashing which is harming her supporters and Trump votersā economic wellbeing, health and safety.
This phenomenon of going dark is widespread. Regulators and prosecutors who were either fired or quit in advance have not risen to defend their own agencies and departments, if only to elevate the morale of those civil servants remaining behind and under siege.
Why arenāt we hearing from Gary Gensler, former head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), now being dismantled, especially since the SEC is dropping his cases against alleged cryptocurrency crooks?
Why arenāt we hearing much more (she wrote one op-ed) from Samantha Power, the former head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under Biden, whose life-saving agency is literally being illegally closed down, but for pending court challenges?
Why arenāt we hearing from Michael Regan, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under Biden about saboteur Lee Zeldin, Trumpās head of EPA, who is now giving green lights to lethal polluters and other environmental destructions?
These and many other former government officials all have their own circles ā in some cases, millions of people ā who need to hear from them.
They can take some courage of the seven former I.R.S. Commissioners ā from Republican and Democratic Administrations ā who condemned slicing the I.R.S staff in half and aiding and abetting big time tax evasion by the undertaxed super-rich and giant corporations. I am told that they would be eager to testify, should the Democrats in Congress have the energy to hold unofficial hearings as ranking members of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees.
Banding together is one way of reducing the fear factor. After Trump purged the career military at the Pentagon to put his own āyes menā at the top, five former Secretaries of Defense, who served under both Democratic and Republican presidents, sent a letter to Congress denouncing Trumpās firing of senior military officers and requesting āimmediateā House and Senate hearings to āassess the national security implications of Mr. Trumpās dismissals.ā Not a chance by the GOP majority there. But they could ask the Democrats to hold UNOFFICIAL HEARINGS as ranking members of the Armed Services Committees!
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker can be one of the prime witnesses at these hearings ā he has no fear of speaking his mind against the Trumpsters.
On March 6, 2025, the Washington Bureau Chief of the New York Times, Elisabeth Bumiller, put her rare byline on an urgent report titled, āāPeople Are Going Silentā: Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves.ā
She writes: āThe silence grows louder every day. Fired federal workers who are worried about losing their homes ask not to be quoted by name. University presidents [one exception is Wesleyan University President Michael Roth] fearing that millions of dollars in federal funding could disappear are holding their fire. Chief executives alarmed by tariffs that could hurt their businesses are on mute.ā
To be sure, government employees and other unions are speaking out and suing in federal court. So are national citizen groups like Public Citizen and the Center for Constitutional Rights, though hampered in alerting large audiences by newspapers like the Times rarely reporting their initiatives.
Yes, Ms. Bumiller, pay attention to that aspect of your responsibility. Moreover, the Timesā editorial page (op-ed and editorials) are not adequately reflecting the urgency of her reporting. Nor are her reporters covering the informed outspokenness and actions of civic organizations.
Donāt self-censoring people know that they are helping the Trumpian dread, threat and fear machine get worse? Study Germany and Italy in the nineteen thirties.
The Trump/Musk lawless, cruel, arrogant, dictatorial regime is in our White House. Their police state infrastructure is in place. Silence is complicity!
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It should come as no surprise that given Trumpās hostility towards foreign visitors:
- President Donald Trumpās āAmerica firstā stance is helping to discourage international travel into the U.S., according to a recent forecast. Research firm Tourism Economics slashed its outlook and now sees a 5.1% decline in visits, flipping from an earlier view for an 8.8% increase. Spending by foreign tourists is expected to tumble 11%, representing a loss of $18 billion this year. Fortune Magaxine
ā¦we all know that the judicial system is a jokeā¦ especially from the recent āwokeā court decisions that have been/are being madeā¦
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Trump is shutting down the Voice of America because his anti-democracy buddies Victor Orban, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and, Kim Jong Un donāt like it. Score a victory for the dictators.