@arotrios@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agoThe US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyismwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square31arrow-up17file-text
arrow-up17external-linkThe US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyismwww.theguardian.com@arotrios@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square31file-text
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusinesslinkfedilink2•3 months agoThis, kids, is why allowing the government to curtail your rights because of “terror” is such a bad idea.
minus-square@ricecake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink2•3 months 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-square@DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilink1•edit-23 months agoJim Crow. America was scared of fucking everything and everyone not an upper class Anglo-Saxon white man.
minus-square@Lennny@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•3 months ago“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety” - $100 bill man
This, kids, is why allowing the government to curtail your rights because of “terror” is such a bad idea.
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.
“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety” - $100 bill man