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Laura H's avatar

It's good information to know about the border exceptions to constitutional rights. The government surveillance apparatus is exploding. I remember thinking in 2001, this is not the answer snooping my library requests. How about doing your jobs.

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Ken Klippenstein's avatar

it's really alarming how little attention it gets. like we're all just used to it

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JennyStokes's avatar

This is why the US is imploding.

These 'sheep' people in the US (who own guns) are sitting on their backsides in their Dens and oblivious to what is happening.

It's coming for you USA

No Country needs to drop bombs on the USA.........the sheepie people are going to have to fight their own Civil War.

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Clif Brown's avatar

Ken, as you know, I am standing on a corner or walking on city streets with signs that condemn Zionism, support the Palestinians and I fly a Palestinian flag. I have been doing this for almost 7 months now, no end in sight.

This is something that I can do because I am protected by the 1st Amendment. Nobody else, as far as I know, is doing what I am doing across the entire country...a single person on his own initiative protesting for the Palestinians and a white man at that. Sebastian Gorka cannot come get me. ICE cannot come get me. The FBI cannot come get me. The local police have come several times and leave explaining that they cannot tell me to stop. Even Zionists, filled with hate, some of whom shouted a death threat have not been able to stop me.

I read story after story like this one you highlight today, but nobody seems to be interested in the fact that millions of Americans could be doing what I am doing and are not. There is untapped power for individuals to use that the 1st Amendment protects, and no online outlet seems to have any interest at all. I do not expect MSM to touch what I am doing, but my direct appeals to you, Ryan Grim, Glenn Greenwald are ignored.

Why? I am baffled. Over 25 years I have been an anti-Zionist. Now it is possible my life is on the line. I accept that and no journalist is interested?

Surely this is something that should be publicized because Americans, particularly white retirees like me, can get out and make themselves heard without the fear that a student or a person of color or someone with a job might have. There are so many such people, but none are doing anything. Timidity? My example just might stimulate a few to act and that could happen if any of the outlets I subscribe to would listen to a subscriber instead of the communication being a broadcast that goes only one way, the traditional way of MSM.

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Janice Gintzler's avatar

Feed those in Gaza

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JennyStokes's avatar

I have a question: I have a daughter and grandson living in the USA.

I decide to visit.

I am asked whether I support Hamas.

My answer would be yes.

DO they imprison me or do they deport me?

My daughter asked me some time ago whether we would visit. My answer was NO.

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lee levin's avatar

It's outrageous. There are no words.

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RealNoDeuces's avatar

I mean obviously Ethan and I prefer Hasan’s Hawg to Hunter’s…because it has better politics.

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StanleyTwoBrix's avatar

Who woulds have thought the bipartisan push to censor speech would have wound up here? I am just SO SURPRISED by this.

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lee levin's avatar

😂🤣😂🤣😅

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Chris G's avatar

Just a minor note: TECS is an acronym. It was originally developed by the Customs Service in the 1980's when Customs came under Treasury's jurisdiction, before it was moved under DHS.. It stands for (stood for?) Treasury Enforcement Communications System.

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Ken Klippenstein's avatar

It used to be an acronym but for reasons unknown the government has since declared that it no longer is

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Tom's avatar

And Elon/DOGE have already exfiltrated massive amounts of Americans' personal and professional data from various, unconnected databases which they're probably centralizing in a cloud-based data fusion center, all right out of an evil sci-fi movie/novel. This TECS was probably one of them, too. No matter who the next several presidents are, they will likely have unprecedented, centralized access to every American's sensitive data and what emerges will make any current database look like SQL dabbling on a PC.

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Tom's avatar
May 17Edited

"We mean, like, do you -like- like Hamas and think they're like rad or -like- freedom fighters like in Star Wars?"

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Tom's avatar

Would love to hear from some Tulsi fans. She didn't turn out like you expected, did she? It was all bullshit after all.

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