arotrios@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoThe US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyismwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up1517arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: DeclineIntoCensorship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
arrow-up1513arrow-down1external-linkThe US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyismwww.theguardian.comarotrios@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square34linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: DeclineIntoCensorship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up51·1 month agoThis, kids, is why allowing the government to curtail your rights because of “terror” is such a bad idea.
minus-squareLennny@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 month ago“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety” - $100 bill man
minus-squarericecake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month agoPossibly 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.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-229 days agoJim Crow. America was scared of fucking everything and everyone not an upper class Anglo-Saxon white man.
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
FDR has entered the chat…
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.