• sugar_in_your_tea
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, the Constitution protects anyone on American soil, not just citizens.

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        Talk to the interned Japanese or the community organizers in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood bombed by the Philly PD. It wasn’t just starting with the Patriot Act.

        The US has a long and storied tradition of claiming “These people don’t count” when enumerating civil rights.