“The Constitution is clear,” Miller told reporters outside the White House. “The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion. So, to say that’s an option we’re actively looking at … a lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.”
“The executive is going to skip habeas corpus if the courts don’t support our current disregard for habeas corpus”
“Checks and balances” was a masterful marketing slogan. It’s worked on people for almost 250 years.
Genuinely surprised no one in the US who was about to be a victim of state sanctioned kidnapping has decided death is preferable to CECOT and just started [redacted] ICE agents.
they send a fucking company of paras to arrest handfuls of people, the whole strategy is to make fighting seem hopeless
Depends on what you’re hoping to achieve. Victory and survival? Very unlikely if alone. Multiple casualties, a lifetime of trauma for the rest and a reason to think twice before kicking in the next door? Achievable alone with planning and drill, I think.
i don’t think most people have the energy to plot a rambo standoff with paramilitaries, who don’t generally announce what they’re doing in advance.
i’m not shittalking resistance, i promise, but we cannot expect people to spontaneously develop a consciousness and militancy, even in extreme conditions. that’s what organizing is for
It’s tradition, at this point.
And then you have absolute dick holes like this
POINT OF PROCESS! Suspending the right to a trial is ACTUALLY under the jurisdiction of Congress. No argument with the explicit justification of crushing rebellion, just that the Cheeto is doing it instead of a bipartisan Committee on Un-American Activities.
The Constitution is shit. It is a slaveowner document. The Bill of Rights, in a vacuum of both textual and historical context, is okay, but all these motherfuckers who wax poetic about The Constitution need to actually read Articles I-V. They need to read the Federalist papers. They need to understand this was meant to be a plantation / finance / settler colonial aristocracy from the very beginning. The bicameral legislature was literally designed to undermine democracy. The electoral college was literally designed to undermine democracy. There has been an outspoken contempt for the will of the people from the very founding of this republic. The “founders” don’t even attempt to hide this in their literature. They explicitly state this as their motivation on several occasions.
In the first couple years of Trump 1.0, I got the impression that the USA had lost its way. I started reading a bunch of this shit, trying to figure out where things had gone wrong. What I discovered was that everything is actually working exactly as intended.
invade deez nutz
