How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack

Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by outside1234 on Sunday March 30, 2025 @11:20PM (#43530547)

Not if we protest en mass and all stick together. The thing that will kill us is if we obey in advance and don’t do these things.

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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by esalman on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:26AM (#43531024)

As far as I can see nobody is sticking by the F1 students who are being deported.

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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by facile3232 on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:33AM (#43531065)

The deportations are just flashy cruelty to obscure everything else.

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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by esalman on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:55AM (#43531218)

It's also cruelty to folks who have absolutely nothing to defend themselves with. They are doing this just to deter people from practicing right to assembly and protest.

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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by insane_dreamer on Monday March 31, 2025 @08:29PM (#43541558)

I think it's more of a typical tactic by authoritarian countries to do some high profile arrests with no recourse to strike fear into everyone's hearts that the same can happen to them and they'll have no recourse; which Ivy League grad students or faculty are going to join protests now?

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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by mbs159 on Monday March 31, 2025 @04:40AM (#43532650)

Trump has repeatedly suggested that he will use the military on the "enemy from within". Protests could end up looking like what we see in Belarus and Russia - masked "police" shows up and they beat them up and / or take them away.

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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by greenie_beans on Monday March 31, 2025 @08:37AM (#43534264)

and that makes you scared? you are playing into his hand if so. that makes me want to go to the streets even more.

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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by unethical_ban on Monday March 31, 2025 @09:54AM (#43535098)

They didn't use the term scared, and being scared is not implicitly "going into hiding".

It's because I'm scared that I'm going to protest on April 5 in my state capital.

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Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack by greenie_beans on Monday March 31, 2025 @10:18AM (#43535349)

context clues suggest to me that the commenter is worried about militarized violence against protestors (scared)

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