“the West is everything they told you China was”

by Deaglan O’Mulrooney in the spectacle on Substack

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“So the next time you hear a Western politician condemn China for silencing dissent, ask them about Hüseyin Doğru. Ask them about the BBC cutting ‘free Palestine’ from a BAFTA speech. Ask them about the pregnant woman body-slammed in Amsterdam and the demonstrators being brutalised in Berlin. Ask them about von der Leyen’s heckler being arrested after she joked that in Russia, he would be arrested. The West is everything they told you China was. The only difference is that the Empire has better public relations”

https://open.substack.com/pub/thespectaclemag/p/the-west-is-everything-they-told

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #EU #Surveillance #Censorship #Sanctions #AbuseOfPower #PoliceViolence #PoliceBrutality #Netherlands #Germany #Hypocrisy #Gaslighting #VonDerLeyen #BBC #MSM

the West is everything they told you China was.

surveillance, censorship, journalists sanctioned into destitution, innocent people brutalised by police. This is everyday life in the liberal, democratic west.

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“Over 6 months later, many of those individuals remain without work, without legal status, & without any meaningful ability to plan for their futures,” Judge McConnell wrote.

He wrote that the various holds violated the #immigration laws governing the responsibilities of #USCIS, & that the agency had routinely applied the #law unequally under the policies.

#Trump #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

The policies were announced in November shortly after the admin said an Afghan national shot 2 National Guard members in DC. The man, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, has pleaded not guilty.

The freeze resulted in many immigrants inside the #US waiting indefinitely for decisions on their applications, disrupting their ability to legally work & leaving them to question whether they could remain in the country.

#Trump #law #immigration #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

The policies, enacted by #US #Citizenship & #Immigration Services [#USCIS], included a global hold on #asylum applications filed with the agency. It also paused decisions on immigration applications filed by people from the 39 countries subject to #Trump’s #TravelBan, halting their ability to obtain #GreenCards, US citizenship & other benefits.

#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday struck down a slate of #immigration policies enacted by the #Trump admin, writing that it had left #immigrants living in the #US in “indeterminate legal limbo” because of “anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making.”

#law #immigration #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

#Judge Says #Trump Officials Must Restart #Asylum & #Immigration Processing

The judge invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants, as well as the processing of immigration benefits for people from 39 countries.

#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/politics/asylum-immigration-ruling.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Judge Says Trump Officials Must Restart Asylum and Immigration Processing

The judge invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants, as well as the processing of immigration benefits for people from 39 countries.

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@martinus I feel

e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Dutch regime when I see this.

#contempt #dutch #regime #netherlands #pregnant #woman #policebrutality #powerabuse #abuseofpower