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

On 2/7/2025 1:59 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Feb 6, 2025 at 7:57:21 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

On 2/6/2025 8:13 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  On Feb 6, 2025 at 5:04:14 PM PST, "The Horny Goat" <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
 

  On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 02:52:29 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
  wrote:
>

  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.

>
  Or simply to avoid the cost of defending a law suit which they would
  certainly win

    The wouldn't certainly win it. The law prohibiting resident aliens from
  publicly supporting designated terrorist organization has already been
  challenged and found to be constitutional.

>
Does that law specify deportation as punishment?

 Yes.

What's the law (or executive order)?

...to be visited only upon persons of precarious status?

 If their status is so precarious, maybe they should refrain from publicly
supporting terrorist organizations, knowing that doing so can get them
deported.
 At what point do we hold grown adults responsible for the consequences of
their own actions?

Maybe they're stupid.  But free speech isn't afforded to only geniuses.