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I'm going to cradle your face gently in both my hands when I say this because I need you to hear me.
If only citizens have the right to due process, then nobody has the right to due process.
Because once you're in custody on some trumped up charges, all it takes is for them to say you're not a citizen. And then you don't have the right to due process to prove them wrong. So I'm going to say it again.
If ONLY citizens have due process, then NOBODY has due process.
@Lana if they can revoke a green card or H1-B visa at a whim, they can revoke citizenship with as much difficulty.
Ask Shamima Begum who *was* a British citizen, did a very stupid thing as a teenager, and now she's stateless.
They don't even have to go through the formal process of revoking it. All they have to do is CLAIM you aren't a citizen and never have been. Boom. You don't have due process anymore. And without due process, you have no means of proving you ARE a citizen in a court of law.
@Lana precisely why this is *so* dangerous!
@serialdeviant @Lana Was *entrapped* into that very stupid thing by an intelligence service that has a pact with the UK...
@serialdeviant @Lana I'm UKian. We're pretty sure they took her citizenship to try to keep covering up the intelligence op aspect. Which includes intelligence services at least complicit in grooming her prior to transport.
☆ Lisa ☆@Lana
I wish I could boost this a million times
@Lana or: without due process, how do you decide who is a citizen
@Lana
This is so true and it terrifies me. The fact that MAGA is sending people to prison without trials is abhorrent, let alone to prisons in countries they have never visited.
@hinton it's important to note that when German Nazis sent people to concentration death camps, they were largely located outside the borders of Germany. Only a very few were actually in Germany proper.
@Lana And if you don't think a 'democratic' government would do that, UK Conservatives already did it to Shamima Begum and they were nowhere near as far down the road to fascism as Trump is, or UKIP Re-Formed would clearly like to be, if they follow the Farrager.