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'This is the crisis moment': Political scientist says Trump crossed a crucial red line

www.rawstory.com 'This is the crisis moment': Political scientist says Trump crossed a crucial red line

Jacob Levy, Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory at McGill University, cautioned in a Blue Sky thread that the case involving a Maryland man the U.S. government acknowledges was "wrongfully deported" has reached a "crisis moment."In March, Kilmar Ábrego García was accused of being an MS-13 gang m...

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'This is the crisis moment': Political scientist says Trump crossed a crucial red line

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My concern at this point is that when people eventually reclaim power and overthrow the dictatorship, the other members that willfully participated in all of this will not be held accountable and will get away free, or even worse will be allowed back into a democratic government again.
I'm kinda skipping over the majority of the timeline here. But eventually, these people need to be held accountable for the countless crimes they have committed and the worse crimes that have yet to come. The majority of the republican party should see prison for life at this rate.
- Life in prison is not enough. That may have been an option after the civil war if they had done what needed to be done at the time. Unfortunately, this go around, there will need to be more drastic measures, and this doesn't just involve the officials, but the supporters as well. There is a blood debt that will need to be paid if we'll ever move beyond this for good.
  
  Are you calling for people's deaths?
  Regardless of how serious their crimes are, calling for people's deaths is not a great way to be(e) nice.
  Most of the unfortunate people who support the current administration are suffering from a lack of funding for education and other systemic issues that are not their fault. If the system were to collapse and be restructured, we should aim to help those people, not punish them.
  
  Some people, yes. I'm not interested in being nice. I'm interested in putting an end to 400+ years of racist trash making life difficult and creating as much suffering as they possibly can.

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