Bill Would Give The State Dept. The Ability To Deny Passports To Citizens Who Criticize Israel
New 'Thought Policing' Bill May Let #Rubio Strip #Passports from #USCitizens Over Political Speech | Common Dreams
Stephen Prager
Sep 13, 2025
"#FreeSpeech advocates are sounding the alarm about a bill in the US House of Representatives that they fear could allow Secretary of State #MarcoRubio to strip US citizens of their passports based purely on political speech.
"The bill, introduced by Rep. #BrianMast (R-Fla.), will come up for a hearing on Wednesday. According to The Intercept:
:Mast’s new bill claims to target a narrow set of people. One section grants the secretary of state the power to revoke or refuse to issue passports for people who have been convicted—or merely charged—of material support for terrorism...
"The other section sidesteps the legal process entirely. Rather, the secretary of state would be able to deny passports to people whom they determine 'has knowingly aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise provided material support to an organization the Secretary has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.'
"Rubio has previously boasted of stripping the visas and green cards from several immigrants based purely on their peaceful expression of #ProPalestine views, describing them as '#Hamas supporters.'
"These include Columbia protest leader #MahmoudKhalil, who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) after Rubio voided his green card; and #RumeysaOzturk, the Tufts student whose visa Rubio revoked after she co-wrote an op-ed calling for her school to divest from #Israel.
"Mast—a former soldier for the #IsraelDefenseForces who once stated that babies were 'not innocent Palestinian civilians' — has previously called for 'kicking terrorist sympathizers out of our country,' speaking about the Trump administration’s attempts to deport Khalil, who was never convicted or even charged with support for a terrorist group.
"Critics have argued that the bill has little reason to exist other than to allow the Secretary of State to unilaterally strip passports from people without them actually having been convicted of a crime."
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rubio-thought-policing-bill
#ThoughtPolice #Orwellian #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #FreeMahmoud #FreeRumeysa #WaterProtectors #FreePalestine #LandDefenders #SilencingDissent #Fasicsm #Authoritarianism
Free speech advocates fear a new bill could let the Secretary of State strip passports from US citizens based on their speech. "Rubio has claimed the power to designate people terrorist supporters based solely on what they think and say," one said.
The Trump family company struck a deal Wednesday to build a luxury golf resort in Qatar in a sign it has no plans to hold back from foreign dealmaking during a second Trump administration, despite the danger of a president shaping U.S. public policy for personal financial gain.The project, which features Trump-branded beachside villas and an 18-hole golf course to be built by a Saudi Arabian company, is the first foreign deal by the Trump Organization since Donald Trump took office and unlike any done in his first term. Back then, he forswore foreign deals in an extraordinary press conference
Brian Mast is a traitor.
Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he supports “purging” personnel at the State Department, The Hill reports.
This is the piece of shit, Mike Figuerado from #TheHumanistReport is talking about:
https://newrepublic.com/post/178679/gop-congressman-brian-mast-dead-palestinian-babies-not-innocent
Babies Killed In Gaza Are ‘Not Innocent Palestinian Civilians,’ House Republican Says
#HuffPost #GazaBabies #InnocentCivilians #Palestinian #HouseRepublican #BrianMast #Politics #News
GOP Congressman Brian Mast (R-FL) Says Dead Palestinian Babies Aren’t All That Innocent
https://mast.house.gov/our-offices
h/t: @newrepublic
#BrianMast #Gaza #Israel #GOP #Palestine #TheNewRepublic #CodePink #Florida #WestBank
Sick, twisted, morally bankrupt, "pro-life" #Republican fuckstain (but I repeat myself) #BrianMast of #Florida thinks Palestinian babies deserve to be slaughtered just for existing.
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