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The FBI labels you a terrorist for "anti-capitalist" sentiment as per the oh so "wonderful" NSPM 7...
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbis-new-political-pre-crime-center
More things that make you a domestic terrorist:
"Extreme gender beliefs" (transgender support)
"Extreme immigration beliefs" (supporting immigration)
... The land of freedumb for sure.
Say "Immigrants should not be put in cages", and then the government thinks you should be put in a cage.
Not to be rude, but who cares? Authoritarian governments could send a goon squad and shoot you in the face extrajudicially. Seeing they are already doing that for such severe threats to authority as being in a public space, they have no threats left to make. Edit: not making guillotine jokes is not protection.
Legality matters for the "Court of Public Opinion"
Does it? When brownshits can extrajudicially shoot innocents in the face without consequence "legal" and Public opinion loses much of its meaning.
Public opinion is the difference between some random white dudes being sympathetic and randomly interfering with ICE, and people forming mobs that actively hunt down immigrants
Right now public opinion on ICE is terrible, especially in democratic strongholds... which is why I as a nonwhite immigrant I was able to avoid get harassed by ICE or xenophobic mobs for over a year since he took office
If public opinion on immigrants goes down... if people start beliving in those xenophobic rhetotics... I could get lynched by my neighbors
Excellent point. Good perspective and post.
people forming mobs that actively hunt down immigrants.
That is ICE already. I was thinking "people forming ~~mobs~~ well regulated militias that actively hunt ICE mobs. That just me speaking from my privilege.
who runs the courts though?
Right now, juries still decide for the actual court cases.
Exhibit A: I think they acquitted the "threw a ham sandwich dude"...
Legally? Not a damn thing because it's protected speech.
It's possible you'd get on a "no fly" list, which could be a problem for some people.
There are probably all sorts of ways that a corrupt government like ours can find ways to punish even perfectly innocent people.
Yeah, if they choose to do legally questionable or outright illegal stuff that needs to be fought and defeated in court or we're in for some grim times.
Well, grimmer anyways...
- They know.
- they can’t do shit since this people are not targeting a specific person. If they do change the law to make it possible to prosecute guillotine meme, left wing lawyer will be able to prosecute asshole that make « kill all the immigrants » meme. So not a win for them
- now they could go full on « illegal detention » like ICE is doing but this never go well and it’s mostly unsustainable in the long run
So it’s easier to let it go. « Guillotine meme » are a social valve. Let them post their anger if they do nothing about it