President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday targeting flag burning -- an attempt to criminalize an act the Supreme Court of the United States has already repeatedly ruled is protected free speech.
great reminder that #australia still does not have a bill of rights: https://www.3cr.org.au/anarchistworld/episode/australian-constitution. the last two #constitutional #referendums failed.
alas, #newZealand DOES have a #billOfRights and is also a constitutional monarchy. so when pondering where to live, the choice for some of us could be between getting rained on a lot vs NOT having individual protections against the government.
important things to consider these days while we watch the carnage unfold in the USA.
#JackDorsey has invested $10 million in a #nonprofit called #andOtherStuff to fund #opensource #socialmedia projects.
📲 The team, including Dorsey, is focused on creating technologies like Nostr-based #socialapps and #developertools.
🗽 They aim to build a social media #BillofRights to ensure #useraccountability and are working on various projects, including Shakespeare, heynow, Cashu, and White Noise.
👉 https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/jack-dorsey-backs-nonprofit-and-other-stuff-experimenting-with-open-social-tools-like-nostr/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
A quotation from George Carlin
Folks, I hate to spoil your fun, but — there’s no such thing as rights. Okay? They’re imaginary. We made ’em up. […] Now, if you think you do have rights, one last assignment for you. Next time you’re at the computer, get on the Internet, go to Wikipedia. When you get to Wikipedia, in the search field for Wikipedia I want you to type in “Japanese-American 1942,” and you’ll find all about your precious fucking rights, okay? […] Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most, their government took ’em away. And rights aren’t “rights” if someone can take ’em away — they’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a Bill of Temporary Privileges. And if you read the news, even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter and shorter.George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Show (2008-03-01), It’s Bad for Ya, Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, California (HBO)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlin-george/54395/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgecarlin #godgivenrights #internment #abuseofauthority #billofrights #civilrights #government #power #privileges #rights
Andrew P. Napolitano examines the moral and historical errors in the argument that less freedom produces more safety. By Andrew P. Napolitano We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have infiltrated th
The Australian Constitution
Post-9/11 Australia has pushed a tradition of exclusion to constitutional extremes
"The Constitution says nothing direct about what it means to be Australian, when a person is entitled to Australia’s protection, or who can claim to ‘belong’ to Australia. In contrast to many written constitutions, the Australian Constitution is silent on Australian citizenship."
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https://verfassungsblog.de/os2-exclusion-extremes/
Constitutional Rights in Australia Versus the United States
Calls for Federal Bill of Rights
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https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/constitutional-rights-in-australia-versus-the-united-states/
#rights #constitution #BillofRights #Australia #Australian #US #citizens #citizenship #democracy #exclusion #crisis #breakdown #FundamentalRights #ConstitutionalLimitations
Hey everyone, I know both Zain & his wife, Sophia. We all worked together for #SaveOldGrowth & #StopEcocide work here in #BritishColumbia. What's happened to Zain is unjust & I'm asking you all to please read this whole post & sign the #petition. Thanks for your time & help. Please boost for wider reach.
* Last week, Prime Minister #MarkCarney revealed Lena Metledge Diab will serve as Canada’s new Immigration Minister.
The first thing Diab should do as Minister is bring #ClimateActivist Zain Haq back to Canada by greenlighting his Temporary Residence Permit that has been processing since January.
Zain was deported to Pakistan in January for climate activism that resulted in low-level mischief charges. He’d been living in Canada his entire adult life, and with his Canadian wife, Sophia Papp, since 2023.
Sophia has been given the devastating choice to remain in Canada without her spouse or relocate to #Pakistan , where she doesn’t speak the language and faces significant barriers to her health and wellbeing.
A mere 48 hours before Zain was deported, he and Sophia’s Spousal Sponsorship application was rejected by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) without substantive explanation.
The couple’s lawyer, Randall Cohn, has stated that this eleventh-hour rejection is likely illegal. It also denied Zain and Sophia’s right to procedural fairness, since they didn’t have time to access the appeal process enshrined in the #BillOfRights.
Zain and Sophia’s situation is reminiscent of the #unethical treatment of many #migrants in the U.S.
#IRCC ’s last minute rejection of a young couple’s Sponsorship Application without substantive reason should raise alarm bells for anyone of conscience, but especially for those with a #legal background – and before getting into #politics , Minister Diab was a #lawyer in Halifax. That’s why we have to get Zain’s file on her desk as soon as possible. *
#BCpoli #CDNpoli #Activists #SocialJustice #EcoJustice #Environmentalist #Injustice #Canada #EndFossilFuels #PowerToThePeoples #PleaseHelp #DogwoodBC #Grassroots #Resistance #Deportation #CanadianImmigration #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #DueProcess
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