#2nd #amendment supporters
the
'we need to have #weapons to counter a #tyranny' people...
will no longer be able to use this argument...
#Trump has shown and and proven
(not only in words but with the blood of Americans)
that even if there is tyranny, violence, murders
weapons are used by tyrants
and by those who support tyranny.
Over and over, DHS goons descend on areas where immigrants congregate,
grab every non-white person they encounter,
and drag them away with little regard for their citizenship status.
Then they send out indignant liars like DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin to spew nonsense about how this is all perfectly legal.
“Our officials use reasonable suspicion,” McLaughlin claimed on Fox News,
explaining the standard federal law enforcement officers use to detain people.
“That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."
❌ But none of that is true.
Unreasonable, improbable, illegal
The Department of Homeland Security ⚠️deliberately confuses "reasonable suspicion" and "probable cause"
in hopes that no one will notice that
💥ICE and CBP are making illegal arrests as standard operating procedure.
The #Fourth #Amendment guarantees that
the government cannot arrest a person without "probable cause to believe he or she committed a crime".
It requires a #warrant “supported by Oath or affirmation,
and particularly describing the place to be searched,
and the persons or things to be seized.”
Law enforcement officers are, however,
allowed to arrest someone without a warrant -- if they witness a crime taking place or in exigent circumstances where the suspect might flee.
In the 1968 case
"Terry v. Ohio",
the Supreme Court granted police the power to
“stop and frisk” people on the street
based on "reasonable suspicion"
— a lower standard than "probable cause".
In #Terry, a police officer in Cleveland observed three men appearing to case a store with the intent to rob it.
He approached the men,
patted them down,
found guns in their coats,
and arrested them for carrying illegally concealed weapons.
One defendant,
John Terry,
challenged the arrest claiming that being patted down violated the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures.
In an 8-1 ruling,
the Court held that being stopped and frisked by an officer who has reasonable suspicion of a crime is a “minor inconvenience and petty indignity.”
Justice #William O. #Douglas,
the lone dissenter,
warned that
“to give the police greater power than a magistrate
is to take a long step down the totalitarian path.”
And he was right.
#Terry #stops,
as they came to be known,
were weaponized against Black and brown people,
who are routinely accosted on the street by racist police.
But as bad as
"US v. Terry" is,
👍🔸it didn’t change the requirement that law enforcement officers must have "probable cause" to believe that a specific crime has been committed
— not just "reasonable suspicion"
— for an arrest.
And while DHS agents can take undocumented citizens into custody without a warrant,
⚠️they cannot simply grab people off the street,
throw them in the back of an unmarked vehicle,
and check their citizenship status later.
🆘 But ICE and CBP goons are doing just that, all day, every day,
🔥so DHS has resorted to simply lying about the Constitution itself.
(1/3)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/dhs-violating-fourth-amendment
time is come
New protest laws are impacting political demonstrations
While serving in the Florida state legislature, #Randy #Fine helped pass legislation that provides some
🆘 protection under certain circumstances to
🔥drivers who hit protesters blocking roadways.
In Congress, the Republican representative has introduced a similar bill
— what he calls the
“#Thump #Thump #Act”
— for drivers who may encounter protesters in other parts of the country.
“When the consequences for inappropriate behavior are severe enough, people will stop doing it,” Fine said.
“Blocking roads is a form of political terrorism.
💥They should get run over.”
Florida is one of more than a dozen states that have cracked down on protests in recent years,
👉 passing laws that often equate political demonstrations with riots in ways that #First #Amendment experts say could be illegal.
🆘 Since 2017, 23 states have passed at least 55 laws to address how and when people can protest,
according to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law,
which tracks such statutes.
❌The laws do such things as mandate at least 30 days in jail for rioting
— often loosely defined as a group involved in tumultuous or potentially violent behavior
— restrict protests on college campuses,
and imprison and fine people who block sidewalks, streets and highways.
Some lawmakers like Fine want #federal #legislation that mirrors those efforts.
Among the 16 pending federal bills are proposals to
♦️ tighten restrictions on protesting near federal judges, jurors or court staff;
♦️strip nonprofits of their tax status for certain protest-related activities;
♦️and block people convicted of rioting from small business aid.
First Amendment advocates warn that the patchwork of state laws,
pending federal bills and court battles risk ⚠️rewriting the rules of public demonstrations.
There are already laws to prosecute violent behavior,
making these new efforts unnecessary, they say.
There have been few arrests or prosecutions under the recently passed protest laws,
but free-speech advocates say the measures can be used to #control or #dissuade would-be #demonstrators.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/02/anti-protest-laws-randy-fine/
Amending the TDG Constitution
This is where we get to practice due process:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=31&id=150
proposal from Harvard Law: carve Washington DC into several states to provide votes and reshape US democratic process
Amending the TDG Constitution
The early TDG constitutions will not be perfect. So the executive committees will always be fixing and improving.
This is essential to learn the new skills of TDG governance.
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=31&id=150
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