Ya, ’till that happens, nothing’s changed.

Well, only the gun toting rapists…otherwise the same.

I’m well aware of the false dichotomy but can’t reconcile the good that is being done and trying to right the plethora of wrongs committed by the last admin. I have to keep consulting the Whitney Webbs and James Corbets of our world to keep my head on straight.

Nope, they’re absolutely NOT!

“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” is a phrase from the US Declaration of Independence that exemplifies three unalienable rights given to all humans by their Creator.”

How many times does the word “democracy” appear in the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?

Exact number?

Zero

Yes. Far from the worst.

Visitors and guests (especially H1-B and “green card” holders) are here in the USA legally, and protected by the 1st Amendment (religious and political expression, association) just like citizens of the States.

Unless we are formally in a “state of war” (the last time Congress declared such was in 1941) there are no “emergency”, “martial law” or “insurrectionary” conditions to justify suspension of habeus corpus or free expression.
Lincoln, for example, suspended basic rights under conditions of “insurrection”.

Such an emergency has not been formally declared yet.

They never even tried to do that kind of abuse OPENLY, during the “state of national emergency” Trump declared for the “COVID” shakedown.

Although social media censorship took more covert forms, actually violating not only the 1st Amendment rights of the netizens, but grossly violating provisions of the RICO statute.
Since it was organized, coordinated and synchronized from the top down, bu government agencies and bureaucrats.
There was prosecutable money laundering as well.

No one in this country lawfully, can be prohibited from marching in a peaceful demonstration, carrying a sign, signing a petition or authoring an op-ed piece in a magazine.
Such efforts will never survive a Supreme Court ruling on this.

What the Whiteheads are referring to is the obvious “foot in the door” precedent established by such openly egregious violations of the 1st Amendment, against lawful residents of the states.

The implications are clear.
We natural born citizens will be the ultimate target on the scheduled bucket list.
By that time, a simple clerical “error” or computer “glitch” can be blamed for those situations where ordinary people will be hunted down, in Stalinist mode, merely for holding and expressing the wrong opinion.