Also for how much people are touting the First Amendment it seems pretty useless if you’re a regular Joe and the government can just pick you off the street for talking shit about them and ship you off to God knows where. Even if you eventually get out, can you afford to not work for a few months while imprisoned? Can you afford to pay the lawyers that will fight to have you freed?
“You can beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride.” This has been a police intimidation and harassment tool for a long time, now being openly deployed by the US president against his political opponents.
For how long is it gonna stay like that?
Also for how much people are touting the First Amendment it seems pretty useless if you’re a regular Joe and the government can just pick you off the street for talking shit about them and ship you off to God knows where. Even if you eventually get out, can you afford to not work for a few months while imprisoned? Can you afford to pay the lawyers that will fight to have you freed?
“You can beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride.” This has been a police intimidation and harassment tool for a long time, now being openly deployed by the US president against his political opponents.
This is what courts and congress needs to work proactively and not retroactively.
They are working proactively… for this.