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[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 79 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Reading mode on Waterfox to bypass paywall:

“Possess?” That single word means that owning a copy of Marx’s Das Kapital, or a pamphlet from a Palestinian solidarity group, or a battered paperback of Howard Zinn — or maybe even one of my books on the New Deal — would be enough to make a green-card holder or a naturalized citizen “inadmissible or deportable.”

“Affiliated with?” That would prevent anybody who’s ever affiliated themselves with the Democratic Socialist Party in New York that Mamdami ran on behalf of (along with the normal Democratic Party; New York has fusion voting so you can run on two parties simultaneously) from staying in America. Gone to a meeting, rally, or put yourself on their mailing list? You’re toast.

“Write?” That means they’re coming for me, and for you if you’ve ever echoed in writing the kind of sentiments that Republicans call socialism, including food stamps and school lunches, free college, public libraries, a national healthcare system, police and fire, and highways that don’t have tolls. (When billionaire David Koch ran for vice president in 1980 on an antisocialism agenda, he called for the end of all these forms of “socialism”.)

“Distribute?” And they’d be coming for Substack, too, it appears. Along with your local bookstore or library.

We haven’t seen anything this sweeping since the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, when then-President John Adams had roughly 30 newspaper editors and publishers thrown in prison for attacking him. Ben Franklin’s grandson was arrested for publishing an op-ed calling the president “old, querulous, Bald, blind, crippled, Toothless Adams.” A town drunk in New Jersey was arrested for criticizing him while imbibing in a bar. Adams’ overreach lost him the election of 1800 to his then-political enemy Thomas Jefferson, who openly opposed the Acts.

But here we are again, and here’s another dangerous overreach on the GOP’s part in this legislation: Roy’s bill explicitly forbids judicial review of any inadmissibility, deportation, or denaturalization decision made under it.

In other words, if this law passes, then no court can stop or second-guess the government: no habeas corpus, no meaningful appeals; just an order from the Attorney General or some twit at ICE or Homeland Security and you’re on a plane or stuck in a hellhole “detention facility,” possibly for the rest of your life.

That’s not immigration policy, that’s the architecture of a police state, and it’s modeled on how the Nazis stripped citizenship from German Jews and political dissidents in 1935 under the Reich Citizenship Laws**.**

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We haven’t seen anything this sweeping since the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, when then-President John Adams had roughly 30 newspaper editors and publishers thrown in prison for attacking him. Ben Franklin’s grandson was arrested for publishing an op-ed calling the president “old, querulous, Bald, blind, crippled, Toothless Adams.” A town drunk in New Jersey was arrested for criticizing him while imbibing in a bar. Adams’ overreach lost him the election of 1800 to his then-political enemy Thomas Jefferson, who openly opposed the Acts. But here we are again, and here’s another dangerous overreach on the GOP’s part in this legislation: Roy’s bill explicitly forbids judicial review of any inadmissibility, deportation, or denaturalization decision made under it.

https://archive.is/Gxypy

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Archive dot is shouldn’t be used. The person who runs it is a nutter who attacks websites with it. They also modify archives.

[–] certified_expert@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] parzival@lemmy.org 3 points 1 day ago

I use archive.ph, theres also archive.today not that what that guy said is true, idk

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago

No one has one so we still use archive.is :(

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All this comes from a single sus blogger who attacked the owner.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The blogger presented receipts. I'm inclined to believe them

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Wikipedia as a platform believes them too.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

what of us lefties who were born here. i’ll proudly “possess” all the banned things until the last moment.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Just make sure that with your last moment you make them pay dearly, at least three for one.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

So they'll make you stateless and ship you off to whichever country is willing to provide a terminal storage facility for politically undesirable former citizens. People who build concentration camps don't particularly care about details like whether an "immigrant" is a citizen born to citizens.

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Solid response. I’m just responding with a solution for iOS users.

Open Safari and enable automatic reader mode. The reader mode engages so fast after a link opens that it beats most paywalls. I already regret typing that out because it’ll most likely now get popular and be defeated by a patch.