On the contrary, Mr. Tabbi is definitely a strong defender of "free speech." His own. He tries desperate, 'Hail Mary' lawsuit terms to keep others from doing the very kind of thing he himself claims for his own "free speech." How very 'right wing' of him... one set of rules for him, and a very different set of rules for everyone else. How Trumpian.
It's very well known that the "worst of the worst" are the people who show up at the courthouse for their immigration hearings. This really is not the ICE agents 'hitting the 'EASY' button' to make their quotas. Really.
This should not be a California law. This really should be a nationwide law. It should not be a policy decision, because policy decisions get changed... or ignored. It should be a national law, with real penalties for violations, not only on the officers, but on the higher-ups who order or ignore masked, anonymous enforcers. There has never been a satisfactory explanation of the "necessity" for the masks. Local and state police for decades have found no need to be masked while on the job. Masked and anonymous enforcers are not needed if those enforcers are following the law and the Constitution, and doing their jobs legally. It's really a shameful indictment of this current administration that there even needs to be a law to force this on these agencies.
Can the lawyer who submitted this 'legal' brief to the court be referred for censure or disbarment, for filing a frivolous brief? Because that text does not read like anything any qualified and capable lawyer would submit to a court of law. It astounds me how these lawyers debase themselves professionally to support the baseless, frivolous, vexatious, and vindictive court cases for Trump. When some of them start losing their licenses to practice, perhaps some lawyers will start telling Trump 'No' when he asks them to demean themselves and the courts.
Well, to apply fully the absurd Trump logic, Trump the plaintiff is suing for damages. Trump the defendant has, in his role as president, "presidential immunity", so he's not liable for any damages. In Trump's role as the "unitary chief executive" Trump is the IRS, so he can't be held liable as he's immune. Trump logic - no damages.
You haven't heard anything from that vocal crew that complained so loudly about President Biden's administration attempting "censorship" because they are good "conservatives."
Which means they are first, most, and always hypocrites. "Rules for thee but not for me; rights for me, but none for thee." is the credo of today's "conservatives", and consistency is their ultimate sin.
You will always hear nothing from "conservatives" when the censorship, repression, 'canceling', or corruption is done by "conservatives." You will always hear loudly and stridently when these very same "conservatives" can seize attention complaining about 'liberals'. It's who they are, it's what they do, they are hypocrites first and always.
I predict a settlement of a lawsuit in Fairhope, Alabama's future. I predict that Ms. Gamble will be a winner on this one, and that the town of Fairhope will settle and end up paying out for the zealotry and force which the eager beaver moral police tried to impose their 'proper' ideas on Ms. Gamble's clearly violated free speech rights. The lawyers are likely lining up now to take on her lawsuit for their cut of the proceeds.
A question for the tech knowledgeable - are there VPNs that do an 'end to server' encryption of all content? Perhaps after the connection is made, with a large-bit key that changes each connection instance? That way, NSA could collect data, but they might need a while to unencrypt it. Of course, with the kind of mindset driving these fools in the first place, being encrypted would be cause for them to be suspicious, because 'secrets'. Only our government, and the Epstein class can have secrets, it seems.
Two things to remember...
As Trump proved by doing it now, however extra-Constitutionally, TSA could have been getting paid from the start. Trump signs and Executive Order, and magically they get paychecks. That could have happened weeks ago, and not put millions of Americans standing in long lines, missing flights, and suffering inconveniences.
The masks have never been about 'doxxing'. The masks are part of the intimidation, and also help prevent liability for when the ICE agents violate people's civil rights and the Constitution. What good are storm troopers if they can be ID'd and sued for excessive force by anyone with a phone? With a mask, they can murder with impunity, as the government decides "no need to investigate" is the answer.
Clearly, the problem is the law is obviously wrong. When Trump and his DOJ cannot charge, try, and convict the people that Trump wants, or the people who object to what Trump wants, the law is the problem. Trump and his illegal, illegitimate actions; and the corrupt, incompetent, and unfit prosecutors and arrests being made could not possibly be the problem. Right?
The fact that these charges and arrests are literally "trumped up", still doesn't make up for the mess it makes of ordinary, decent, law-abiding and Constitution respecting people's lives.
I watched this interview online, and Mr. Talarico has some very interesting things to say. He's pretty clear about his religion, and also very clear about the need for government to stay uninvolved and far away from religion - all religions. He's 'walked that walk' in the Texas state legislature, too... so it's not just empty talk. Talarico strikes me as kind of 'the anti-Paxton' of Texas politics, and I think he'd be a real quality candidate and would, if he can somehow get elected, make an excellent Senator - far, far better than Paxton ever will.
More than one branch is 'not playing by the rules'. We would not need the Congress to step up, which they are so egregiously neglecting due to Republicans' spineless sycophancy, if the Executive branch were not so single-mindedly intent on eviscerating the Constitution and replacing the 'rule of law' with the 'law of the jungle' - or as so eloquently put by Stephen Miller "strength, power, and force." Were the Executive branch to abide by the Constitution and the current laws, while it would still have a lot of power, perhaps more than it should... it would not be a crisis of democracy-threatening seriousness. But anyone who doesn't think we are in clear and present danger of losing our democracy to autocracy and tyranny is just not paying attention.
It's retroactive law enforcement, because this Trump administration believes it can change what was once legal, make it illegal, then prosecute and deport people for doing what was legal when they did it.
"Do you have lace-up shoes on right now?"
"Yes."
"That's it, you're deported. Those are now illegal."
"Wait - they weren't this morning when I got dressed."
"Sorry, law changed, you're now an 'illegal', and you've got to go."
"I was wrong, I am wearing slip-on shoes."
"That's OK - we're making those illegal tomorrow."
The law cannot be arbitrarily changed and then retroactively applied, or else we have no law at all... we have the random whims of a cruel bully, being enforced by brutal thuggery and violence. Are we "great again" yet?
I find it hard to understand how a "Christian" of any kind can reconcile their belief in Jesus and His teachings and the actions of CBP and ICE enforcement. Working for them while claiming to be a "Christian" pastor? Seems the pastor has achieved a new height of hypocrisy.
Recall that Trump, in his first campaign, openly mocked a handicapped reporter, parroting the physical movements 'for fun'. That's the kind of low-class, no empathy and bigoted person Trump is. Withdrawing ASL translation is a crass, crude, and truly vulgar action -- but I do think that it tells the world a LOT about the "image" of who Trump really is. That "image" is definitely quite different than what Trump sees of himself, and what his boot-licking sycophants surrounding him report to him, no doubt. But his actions clearly gives an accurate "image" of him to the world.
To the extent that Trump appoints people based on their looks ("right out of central casting") and their "loyalty" instead of their capability, experience, and knowledge, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Imagine just how awful more a mess the country would be in if every Trump appointee was skilled, dedicated, and capable at what they are doing. Yes, some of them are making a mucking awful mess of things even full of incompetence (looking at you, ICE Barbie) but imagine that excess of enthusiasm backing up real skills. Be grateful for whatever small good things we can find, in these terrible times - Trump's most good-looking and "loyal" people are on the case, Mr. Comey.
"If I get deported, it will wreck my life."
What about all the hundreds of thousands of other people, people who "obeyed the rules" and a "doing things the right way" to become legal residents, receive asylum, or even gain citizenship? What about the hundreds of thousands of people being deported whose only "crime" their entire life was when their parents brought them here as young children? Do you think it "ruins my life" when it happens to them?
Yes, it's a terrible thing to do to this upright, Trump-voting lifelong Republican. But it's no less terrible to do that to any other lawful living, long-time employed, tax-paying, economically productive person who is seized at an immigration hearing, or arrested at a mandatory court appearance, and deported. Trump promised to deport "criminals" and "gang members" and "drug dealers". Trump LIED. Instead Trump's masked goon squads are sweeping in everyone they can grab, to meet their quotas, without regard for due process, for civil rights, and with brutal glee in the fear they can cause. TRUMP LIED... and this Republican-voting, Trump backing fool of a mayor believed Trump. Yes it "will ruin my life." But Trump DOESN'T CARE. And Stephen Miller loves to do it. Sorry fool, be more careful who you vote for next time.
All the violent attacks, thuggery, and repression - and the explict instructions to suppress legitimate protest and free speech is pretext.
Trump, and his puppetmaster Stephen Miller, want a pretext to declare a 'state of emergency' and martial law and restrict or postpone the election. Escalating "crowd control" tactics to attack protesters with increasing brutality and force, they are trying to provoke an actual attack with real weapons. Bovino will send out his thugs, and somebody with a gun will take a pop, and that will be all the excuse, all the pretext Trump will need.
It is intentionally, by design provocative and will be escalated until it provokes, in one of these cities, a response that Trump can spin into a pretext for declaring another of his "emergencies" and 'sending in the Marines'. It is a land-based Gulf of Tonkin strategy.
The logical next step, if the protesting people are wise enough to stay nonviolent even in the face of this continuing brutality, will be to stage the whole thing, using a 'false flag' operator (who will miraculously 'get away'...) and come close but miss. Trump spun his assassination attempts into fervor with his MAGA cult (and profited personally off it, too)... he'll do the same thing here if the true protesters don't fall for his provocations and escalations.
It was a poll predicting the outcome of an event that HAD NOT HAPPENED YET. So if it is wrong, that is a consequence of the event not being in control of the poll taker or the poll participants individually. I can say "the stock market will go up tomorrow." If it doesn't you cannot sue me for being wrong, even if you lose money because of my statement. The event has not happened yet. Any prediction of an outcome for an event in the future is necessarily an opinion. And opinions are protected free speech.
On the contrary...
On the contrary, Mr. Tabbi is definitely a strong defender of "free speech." His own. He tries desperate, 'Hail Mary' lawsuit terms to keep others from doing the very kind of thing he himself claims for his own "free speech." How very 'right wing' of him... one set of rules for him, and a very different set of rules for everyone else. How Trumpian.
It's very well known...
It's very well known that the "worst of the worst" are the people who show up at the courthouse for their immigration hearings. This really is not the ICE agents 'hitting the 'EASY' button' to make their quotas. Really.
There's only one thing to say about this...
There's only one thing to say about this... "86 47"
This should not be a California law...
This should not be a California law. This really should be a nationwide law. It should not be a policy decision, because policy decisions get changed... or ignored. It should be a national law, with real penalties for violations, not only on the officers, but on the higher-ups who order or ignore masked, anonymous enforcers. There has never been a satisfactory explanation of the "necessity" for the masks. Local and state police for decades have found no need to be masked while on the job. Masked and anonymous enforcers are not needed if those enforcers are following the law and the Constitution, and doing their jobs legally. It's really a shameful indictment of this current administration that there even needs to be a law to force this on these agencies.
Can the lawyer who submitted this 'legal' brief to the court...
Can the lawyer who submitted this 'legal' brief to the court be referred for censure or disbarment, for filing a frivolous brief? Because that text does not read like anything any qualified and capable lawyer would submit to a court of law. It astounds me how these lawyers debase themselves professionally to support the baseless, frivolous, vexatious, and vindictive court cases for Trump. When some of them start losing their licenses to practice, perhaps some lawyers will start telling Trump 'No' when he asks them to demean themselves and the courts.
Well, to apply fully the absurdist Trump logic...
Well, to apply fully the absurd Trump logic, Trump the plaintiff is suing for damages. Trump the defendant has, in his role as president, "presidential immunity", so he's not liable for any damages. In Trump's role as the "unitary chief executive" Trump is the IRS, so he can't be held liable as he's immune. Trump logic - no damages.
You haven't heard anything from the vocal crew...
You haven't heard anything from that vocal crew that complained so loudly about President Biden's administration attempting "censorship" because they are good "conservatives." Which means they are first, most, and always hypocrites. "Rules for thee but not for me; rights for me, but none for thee." is the credo of today's "conservatives", and consistency is their ultimate sin. You will always hear nothing from "conservatives" when the censorship, repression, 'canceling', or corruption is done by "conservatives." You will always hear loudly and stridently when these very same "conservatives" can seize attention complaining about 'liberals'. It's who they are, it's what they do, they are hypocrites first and always.
I predict...
I predict a settlement of a lawsuit in Fairhope, Alabama's future. I predict that Ms. Gamble will be a winner on this one, and that the town of Fairhope will settle and end up paying out for the zealotry and force which the eager beaver moral police tried to impose their 'proper' ideas on Ms. Gamble's clearly violated free speech rights. The lawyers are likely lining up now to take on her lawsuit for their cut of the proceeds.
question for the tech knowledgeable in the crowd...
A question for the tech knowledgeable - are there VPNs that do an 'end to server' encryption of all content? Perhaps after the connection is made, with a large-bit key that changes each connection instance? That way, NSA could collect data, but they might need a while to unencrypt it. Of course, with the kind of mindset driving these fools in the first place, being encrypted would be cause for them to be suspicious, because 'secrets'. Only our government, and the Epstein class can have secrets, it seems.
two things to remember...
Two things to remember... As Trump proved by doing it now, however extra-Constitutionally, TSA could have been getting paid from the start. Trump signs and Executive Order, and magically they get paychecks. That could have happened weeks ago, and not put millions of Americans standing in long lines, missing flights, and suffering inconveniences. The masks have never been about 'doxxing'. The masks are part of the intimidation, and also help prevent liability for when the ICE agents violate people's civil rights and the Constitution. What good are storm troopers if they can be ID'd and sued for excessive force by anyone with a phone? With a mask, they can murder with impunity, as the government decides "no need to investigate" is the answer.
clearly, the problem...
Clearly, the problem is the law is obviously wrong. When Trump and his DOJ cannot charge, try, and convict the people that Trump wants, or the people who object to what Trump wants, the law is the problem. Trump and his illegal, illegitimate actions; and the corrupt, incompetent, and unfit prosecutors and arrests being made could not possibly be the problem. Right? The fact that these charges and arrests are literally "trumped up", still doesn't make up for the mess it makes of ordinary, decent, law-abiding and Constitution respecting people's lives.
I watched this interview online...
I watched this interview online, and Mr. Talarico has some very interesting things to say. He's pretty clear about his religion, and also very clear about the need for government to stay uninvolved and far away from religion - all religions. He's 'walked that walk' in the Texas state legislature, too... so it's not just empty talk. Talarico strikes me as kind of 'the anti-Paxton' of Texas politics, and I think he'd be a real quality candidate and would, if he can somehow get elected, make an excellent Senator - far, far better than Paxton ever will.
more than one branch...
More than one branch is 'not playing by the rules'. We would not need the Congress to step up, which they are so egregiously neglecting due to Republicans' spineless sycophancy, if the Executive branch were not so single-mindedly intent on eviscerating the Constitution and replacing the 'rule of law' with the 'law of the jungle' - or as so eloquently put by Stephen Miller "strength, power, and force." Were the Executive branch to abide by the Constitution and the current laws, while it would still have a lot of power, perhaps more than it should... it would not be a crisis of democracy-threatening seriousness. But anyone who doesn't think we are in clear and present danger of losing our democracy to autocracy and tyranny is just not paying attention.
it's retroactive law enforcement...
It's retroactive law enforcement, because this Trump administration believes it can change what was once legal, make it illegal, then prosecute and deport people for doing what was legal when they did it. "Do you have lace-up shoes on right now?" "Yes." "That's it, you're deported. Those are now illegal." "Wait - they weren't this morning when I got dressed." "Sorry, law changed, you're now an 'illegal', and you've got to go." "I was wrong, I am wearing slip-on shoes." "That's OK - we're making those illegal tomorrow." The law cannot be arbitrarily changed and then retroactively applied, or else we have no law at all... we have the random whims of a cruel bully, being enforced by brutal thuggery and violence. Are we "great again" yet?
I find it hard to understand...
I find it hard to understand how a "Christian" of any kind can reconcile their belief in Jesus and His teachings and the actions of CBP and ICE enforcement. Working for them while claiming to be a "Christian" pastor? Seems the pastor has achieved a new height of hypocrisy.
recall that Trump, in his first campaign...
Recall that Trump, in his first campaign, openly mocked a handicapped reporter, parroting the physical movements 'for fun'. That's the kind of low-class, no empathy and bigoted person Trump is. Withdrawing ASL translation is a crass, crude, and truly vulgar action -- but I do think that it tells the world a LOT about the "image" of who Trump really is. That "image" is definitely quite different than what Trump sees of himself, and what his boot-licking sycophants surrounding him report to him, no doubt. But his actions clearly gives an accurate "image" of him to the world.
to the extent...
To the extent that Trump appoints people based on their looks ("right out of central casting") and their "loyalty" instead of their capability, experience, and knowledge, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Imagine just how awful more a mess the country would be in if every Trump appointee was skilled, dedicated, and capable at what they are doing. Yes, some of them are making a mucking awful mess of things even full of incompetence (looking at you, ICE Barbie) but imagine that excess of enthusiasm backing up real skills. Be grateful for whatever small good things we can find, in these terrible times - Trump's most good-looking and "loyal" people are on the case, Mr. Comey.
"If I get deported..."
"If I get deported, it will wreck my life." What about all the hundreds of thousands of other people, people who "obeyed the rules" and a "doing things the right way" to become legal residents, receive asylum, or even gain citizenship? What about the hundreds of thousands of people being deported whose only "crime" their entire life was when their parents brought them here as young children? Do you think it "ruins my life" when it happens to them? Yes, it's a terrible thing to do to this upright, Trump-voting lifelong Republican. But it's no less terrible to do that to any other lawful living, long-time employed, tax-paying, economically productive person who is seized at an immigration hearing, or arrested at a mandatory court appearance, and deported. Trump promised to deport "criminals" and "gang members" and "drug dealers". Trump LIED. Instead Trump's masked goon squads are sweeping in everyone they can grab, to meet their quotas, without regard for due process, for civil rights, and with brutal glee in the fear they can cause. TRUMP LIED... and this Republican-voting, Trump backing fool of a mayor believed Trump. Yes it "will ruin my life." But Trump DOESN'T CARE. And Stephen Miller loves to do it. Sorry fool, be more careful who you vote for next time.
All this is pretext...
All the violent attacks, thuggery, and repression - and the explict instructions to suppress legitimate protest and free speech is pretext. Trump, and his puppetmaster Stephen Miller, want a pretext to declare a 'state of emergency' and martial law and restrict or postpone the election. Escalating "crowd control" tactics to attack protesters with increasing brutality and force, they are trying to provoke an actual attack with real weapons. Bovino will send out his thugs, and somebody with a gun will take a pop, and that will be all the excuse, all the pretext Trump will need. It is intentionally, by design provocative and will be escalated until it provokes, in one of these cities, a response that Trump can spin into a pretext for declaring another of his "emergencies" and 'sending in the Marines'. It is a land-based Gulf of Tonkin strategy. The logical next step, if the protesting people are wise enough to stay nonviolent even in the face of this continuing brutality, will be to stage the whole thing, using a 'false flag' operator (who will miraculously 'get away'...) and come close but miss. Trump spun his assassination attempts into fervor with his MAGA cult (and profited personally off it, too)... he'll do the same thing here if the true protesters don't fall for his provocations and escalations.
It was a poll...
It was a poll predicting the outcome of an event that HAD NOT HAPPENED YET. So if it is wrong, that is a consequence of the event not being in control of the poll taker or the poll participants individually. I can say "the stock market will go up tomorrow." If it doesn't you cannot sue me for being wrong, even if you lose money because of my statement. The event has not happened yet. Any prediction of an outcome for an event in the future is necessarily an opinion. And opinions are protected free speech.