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Reposted by Berk Özler, Florence Kondylis
Reposted by Berk Özler, Dean Eckles, Nathan P. Kalmoe
Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, A. E. Dessler, Linda J. Skitka , and 14 more Katharine Hayhoe, A. E. Dessler, Linda J. Skitka, Lesley A. Hall, Martin Tomko, Joseph Schafer, Berk Özler, Devon Greyson, Charles W. Smith, Silvia Secchi, R. M. Wilson, Tom Griffin, Ann Bartow, Richard M. Carpiano, Jonathan J. Buonocore, Editorial Board, Pepper D. Culpepper
Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Berk Özler
![And there's the issue of masks. This Court has listened
carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk's captors for masking-
up and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd
Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as
disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a
single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small
wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard
them
as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It
should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks.
Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and
honor still matters.
To us, masks are associated with cowardly
desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we
have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.
Carrying on
in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this
administration and everyone who works in it
"We can not escape
history," Lincoln righty said. "[It] will light us down in
honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." Abraham Lincoln,
Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862) .
Perhaps we're now afraid to stick our necks out. If the
distinguished Homeland Security intelligence agency can be
weaponized to squelch the free speech rights of a small, hapless
group of non-citizens in our midst, so too can the Federal Home
Loan Mortgage Corporation, and the audit divisions of the I.R.s.
and the Social Security Administration be unconstitutionally
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Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Anna O. Law, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 23 more Jonathan Portes, Anna O. Law, Gavin A. Schmidt, Steve Peers, Robert W. Wallace, Rosemary A. Joyce, Michael J. Allen, Christian E. Weller, Hans M. Kristensen, Berk Özler, Alan Richardson, Michael Zimmer, Scott A. Imberman, Graham Webster, James Goodwin, Brian Keegan, Dana R. Fisher, Mark Rice, Henry Jones, Seth Masket, Greg Linden, Jack Stilgoe, Cullen S. Hendrix, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Southern Africa, David Darmofal
Reposted by Berk Özler
Reposted by Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch, Kim L. Scheppele , and 45 more Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch, Kim L. Scheppele, Nandita Sharma, Norbert Schwarz, Joe R. Feagin, Will Jennings, Jennifer A. Richeson, Pamela Samuelson, Steve Peers, Mary Feeney, Amir Attaran, Eric Goldman, Patricia Aufderheide, Melissa R. Michelson, Juan Cole, Sanford F. Schram, Berk Özler, Charles W. Smith, Melanie C. Green, Janet Murray, Alan Richardson, Silvia Secchi, Julia Lynch, Gerald Friedman, Robert B. Reich, Caroline Fohlin, Stephen Ryan, Samantha Brennan, Michael D. McDonald, Dean Eckles, Daryl Adair, José Antonio Noguera, Mark Rice, Henry Jones, Nils Zurawski, Andrew Novak, Blair Fix, Melanie O’Brien, Nancy M. Wingfield, Aviel Roshwald, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Prakash Kashwan, Farah Mendlesohn, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Colin Woodard, Guy Dewsbury, Dunlap
Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Archon Fung, Steve Peers , and 22 more Jonathan Portes, Archon Fung, Steve Peers, Samuel L. Perry, Rosemary A. Joyce, American Library Association, Jon Green, Dustin Mulvaney, Fabián Muniesa, Alan Lester, Sanford F. Schram, Berk Özler, Michael W. Kraus, McKenzie Wark, Julia Lynch, James Goodwin, Ann Bartow, Anthony Burke, Gerardo Martí, Stephen Pimpare, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Dan Immergluck, James M. Thomas, David Spurrett, Southern Africa