Re: OT: "Free speech" becomes a verb & noun...

On 1/30/2025 4:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Jan 30, 2025 at 12:13:03 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

On 1/30/2025 1:13 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  On Jan 30, 2025 at 9:47:35 AM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

  On 1/29/2025 11:59 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    On Jan 29, 2025 at 8:37:20 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
   

    "Trump administration to cancel student visas of pro-Palestinian
protesters"
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-cancel-student-visas-all-hamas-sympathizers-white-house-2025-01-29/

        It's a deportable offense under the U.S. Code for a resident alien to
  advocate
    for or express support for a terrorist organization.

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  So then, I'm guessing this administration would've championed
  deportations from Skokie in '77.  What do you think?

    Was there a designated terrorist organization involved in Skokie, and were
the
  participants resident aliens or American citizens?

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Is "pro-Palestine" a terrorist organization?

 Nice try. Waving the actual flag of Hamas is not simply 'pro-Palestine'.
Neither is chanting the official Hamas motto from its own charter: "From the
river to the sea."
 

   Is pro-Nazi not?

 The American Nazi Party was not a designated terrorist organization and even
if it was, all those marching were American citizens, not resident aliens.

"A designated terrorist organization" sounds a lot like "It's different when WE do it".  Nazis bragged about killing 6 million Jews, for fuck's sake.  Yet they should've been allowed to march, as our better selves now recognize.  There was no important element back then that isn't here now.  Trump is punishing these students for their speech, once again leveraging populist spleen to flout bedrock American principles.  I can't fathom any free-speech advocate's support of this.