Kidnapped by the State: How Trump’s ‘Criminals’ Are Disappeared Without Due Process
They’re Coming for Us Next: The Terrifying Reality Behind Trump’s War on Free Speech and Due Process - Protest, Prison, or Silence: What’s Left for Dissenters in Trump’s America?
It's been a heck of a week... and it's only Tuesday.
Attacks on free speech.
Over the weekend, Trump took to Social Media to rant, calling on Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr to impose maximum fines and punishment "for their unlawful and illegal behavior," asking officials to punish CBS for airing "60 Minutes" reports he doesn't like. The "behavior" in question was speaking truthfully about Ukraine and Greenland.
If big outlets like CBS are under fire for speaking the truth... what hope do smaller outlets like mine (with no resources to fight back) have?
Threats to citizens to "be disappeared" to foreign concentration camps escalate.
In addition, the current administration has continued to stand firm in its dedication to deporting legal US residents to foreign concentration camps, having masked, plain clothes officials picking people up (and deporting people without due process)... while they continue to tease about "deporting" citizens.
This comes after last week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced President Donald Trump is exploring legal pathways to "deport" US citizens to El Salvador (where the administration has already arranged to house deported immigrants in a prison known for its human rights abuses). Leavitt suggested that the effort would be limited to people who have committed major crimes, but Trump also mentioned the possibility of sending people who commit lesser offenses abroad.
I know some people will say, "But they're only targeting criminals," - and to that point, I say:
If people are being deported without due process, there is no way to know if the people being deported are criminals or not.
It turns out many of the people sent so far weren't criminals.
Out of 238 migrants the US recently sent to the Salvadoran mega-prison CECOT, documents indicate most have no apparent criminal records but are now being held in a place so harsh that El Salvador's justice minister once said, "the only way out is in a coffin." This is why Trump's team wants to silence CBS because they DARED to share the truth about these human rights atrocities.
Additionally, because the people this administration kidnaps (and then traffics to the El Salvador concentration camp) haven't been given due process, there is no way to know if the people sent so far are citizens or not. For all we know, citizens have already been deported.
CECOT is "outside of US jurisdiction."
When people arrive, they no longer have "human rights." They aren't allowed visitors, and the center is known for being where people "never leave" once admitted. If they take someone to this place, we may never see them again... and our president is musing about sending citizens there.
I don't care that he said "criminals" and the "worst of the worst" because that's what they said about Abrego Garcia - they (Trump's team) still keep calling him a criminal and a terrorist (even though most of us now know that's not true).
This administration has a rocky history of calling things that aren't illegal illegal (like reporting the truth about what the Trump regime is up to).
Once again, without due process, we cannot know if these people are criminals or have a legal right to be here (or not).
It is not okay that once someone is sent to this place, we "cannot get them back," even if we find out someone was sent to one of these places was sent in "an administrative error."
An "administrative error" is a typo on a check... this (getting kidnapped and trafficked to a foreign concentration camp) isn't an "administrative error." It's an egregious human rights violation.
So, by openly stating that they would not bring Abrego Garcia back yesterday (and by the AP not being allowed into The White House despite a court order), as of yesterday, we officially crossed into the territory of "openly ignored court orders" and "constitutional crisis" that many experts have been worried about.
If the court doesn't next hold any of these goons in contempt of the court, I will take it as a sign we've crossed into more dangerous territory—possibly past the point of no return.
There's another nationwide protest coming up this Saturday.
Still, with all that's going on, I'm hesitant to attend as I worry about my safety (David doesn't do protests, and I'm having a tooth pulled at the end of the week, so I don't know what I will feel like on Saturday). However, I did get my camera stuff ready to go (just in case).
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