The US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyism
The US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyism
A new 7 October 2023 taskforce says it’ll investigate support for Hamas, paving the way for a legal strategy targeting free speech
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This, kids, is why allowing the government to curtail your rights because of "terror" is such a bad idea.
"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety" - $100 bill man
Possibly not the greatest example. The whole "Japanese internment camps" thing, as well as the (radically less controversial) suspension of habeas corpus for Germans captured on US soil.
Jim Crow. America was scared of fucking everything and everyone not an upper class Anglo-Saxon white man.