arotrios@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoThe US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyismwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1517arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: DeclineIntoCensorship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
arrow-up1513arrow-down1external-linkThe US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyismwww.theguardian.comarotrios@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square36fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: DeclineIntoCensorship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up51·4 days agoThis, kids, is why allowing the government to curtail your rights because of “terror” is such a bad idea.
minus-squareLennny@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·4 days ago“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety” - $100 bill man
minus-squarericecake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·4 days agoPossibly not the greatest example. The whole “Japanese internment camps” thing, as well as the (radically less controversial) suspension of habeas corpus for Germans captured on US soil.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 days agoJim Crow. America was scared of fucking everything and everyone not an upper class Anglo-Saxon white man.
This, kids, is why allowing the government to curtail your rights because of “terror” is such a bad idea.
“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety” - $100 bill man
FDR has entered the chat…
Possibly not the greatest example. The whole “Japanese internment camps” thing, as well as the (radically less controversial) suspension of habeas corpus for Germans captured on US soil.
Jim Crow. America was scared of fucking everything and everyone not an upper class Anglo-Saxon white man.