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

On Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:52:29 -0800, BTR1701 wrote:

On Feb 5, 2025 at 4:14:07 PM PST, "moviePig"<nobody@nowhere.com>  wrote:
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On 2/5/2025 6:32 PM, Pluted Pup wrote:

On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:37:20 -0800, moviePig wrote:
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"Trump administration to cancel student visas of pro-Palestinian protesters"

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Egregious, but no where is that quote in the article you cited:
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-cancel-student-visas-all-hamas-sympathizers-white-house-2025-01-29/

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That article appears to be about whether Trump wants to
militarily invade Palestine to expel the people from Gaza.

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Interesting. Looks like Reuters may have retracted (incompetently) the
original article, which was headlined as I quoted. The new emphasis
would now appear to be on "pro-Hamas" rather than "pro-Palestinian".
Regardless, it still smacks of curtailment of free speech.

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So even when they clarify that they're only going after those resident aliens
who support a terrorist organization, you're still worried about their free
speech rights.
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(I.e., one could support *some* of Hamas's stated goals without bombing Tel
Aviv.)

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And one could support those goals without expressing support for Hamas but
they choose to do the latter.

Bogus! You've implied it is impossible to criticize Israel without
supporting Hamas, so by implication it is a terrorist act to
simply say the words that "Israel is not good"!

It could be reasonably assumed that Israel Is Not Good because
it's supporters are so arrogant and daily dish out the death threat
worldwide that disagreeing with Israel is murder, just like any other
criminal gang.

Sorry, like it or not, valid political ideas include opposition
to Israel!