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procon

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1. That's not right.
Thu Apr 11, 2019, 04:25 PM
Apr 2019

Why would a peaceful protest movement against any government whose policies promote injustice, bigotry and discrimination, not to mention violent retaliation, get them barred from the US, the once fabled bastion of law, justice and democracy? Why are we serving as a subservient, compliant client state to help Israel silence legitimate protests and restrict a basic pillar of any Democracy; free speech?

Who else would likely fit Trump's shallow, petty revenge? Every Democrat in Congress who protests against Trump's madness? The press, political commentators, authors, activists, the voters... are we next? Is boycotting Fox News celebrity hosts now a crime against the state?

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