Why are police hiding their faces?

@no1marauder said
The first sentence is dead wrong. Read the 5th Amendment for example.

And Rubio is wrong, too. International students are protected by the First Amendment.https://www.nafsa.org/professional-resources/browse-by-interest/immigration-and-visa-implications-first-amendment

Cases challenging these unconstitutional policies are already working through the courts.https://ww ...[text shortened]... om/story/news/2025/03/26/rutgers-faculty-union-first-amendment-lawsuit-trump-protesters/82660105007/

once the student visa is revoked you have no rights. best to not do anything to get your visa revoked.

@uzless said
once the student visa is revoked you have no rights. best to not do anything to get your visa revoked.

Again wrong.

@uzless said
once the student visa is revoked you have no rights. best to not do anything to get your visa revoked.

Only in Trumpworld. The courts will have the last word on this, whether he likes it or not (probably not).

@uzless said
once the student visa is revoked you have no rights. best to not do anything to get your visa revoked.

I mean, we had a loooong national debate about this 25 years ago when the Bush administration was attempting to detain foreign agitators presumed to be terrorists without trial or legal protections. Then, the only legal pathways was imprisonment outside the USA. Voila, we get Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

At that time, it was extremely controversial whether this was legal or not, and there was a lot of work done to actually provide the terrorists with lawyers and judges and juries to evaluate the evidence of their criminality. In other words, the general consensus was that they had rights.

The juxtaposition of that debate relative to this one is striking. We have come a long way towards tyranny, oppressive power.

@uzless said
once the student visa is revoked you have no rights. best to not do anything to get your visa revoked.

"best not do anything" that pisses off the government is the attitude under which people living in fascist governments operate.

@wildgrass said
I mean, we had a loooong national debate about this 25 years ago when the Bush administration was attempting to detain foreign agitators presumed to be terrorists without trial or legal protections. Then, the only legal pathways was imprisonment outside the USA. Voila, we get Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

At that time, it was extremely controversial whether this was legal or not ...[text shortened]... debate relative to this one is striking. We have come a long way towards tyranny, oppressive power.

The thing dictators never learn is that they always end up fleeing the country, eventually, just like the Shah of Iran and Assad of Syria. That's how Trump's term will end too, if the GOP doesn't find their balls and remove him constitutionally first.

@moonbus said
The thing dictators never learn is that they always end up fleeing the country, eventually, just like the Shah of Iran and Assad of Syria. That's how Trump's term will end too, if the GOP doesn't find their balls and remove him constitutionally first.

Yeah, I also do not understand the appeal.

@moonbus said
The thing dictators never learn is that they always end up fleeing the country, eventually, just like the Shah of Iran and Assad of Syria. That's how Trump's term will end too, if the GOP doesn't find their balls and remove him constitutionally first.

If Trump lasts the 20-40 years those dictators did we will have already lost long before he flees anywhere.

@moonbus said
The thing dictators never learn is that they always end up fleeing the country, eventually, just like the Shah of Iran and Assad of Syria. That's how Trump's term will end too, if the GOP doesn't find their balls and remove him constitutionally first.

They don't always manage to flee. Mussolini was shot and his body hung by its feet for the sport of crows and spitting passers-by. Hitler poisoned himself and his body burned to ashes amidst the rubble of Berlin.

Looking forward to that part of history repeating itself, at least.

@moonbus said
Incorrect. Nothing in the BoR says that only U.S. citizens are protected. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seziures..."

Exactly.

@AThousandYoung said
If Trump lasts the 20-40 years those dictators did we will have already lost long before he flees anywhere.

Given his lifestyle choices, it is not likely he will last anywhere near that long.

@wildgrass said
Yeah, I also do not understand the appeal.

Dictators never reckon with their own downfall. A narcissist simply cannot imagine his own defeat.It takes a narcissistic personality type to claw his way into that sort of position in the first place.

@Soothfast said
They don't always manage to flee. Mussolini was shot and his body hung by its feet for the sport of crows and spitting passers-by. Hitler poisoned himself and his body burned to ashes amidst the rubble of Berlin.

Looking forward to that part of history repeating itself, at least.

Mussolini lasted 26 years. Please don’t curse us with 2+ decades of Trump.