The American Revolution was ignited by the quite a few assaults on liberty dedicated by King George III and his brokers within the American colonies. Amongst these offenses had been illegal searches of personal houses, seizures of property, arrests with out trigger, imprisonment with out trials, violent remedy of protesters, usurpation of the authority of regionally elected officers and army occupation of cities.
In different phrases, every part that President Donald Trump and his battalions of border patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers have been doing in Minneapolis and lots of different locales everywhere in the nation.
Amendments to the USA Structure are supposed to ensure that Americans and all folks residing inside our borders are invested with inalienable rights that can’t be disregarded by the federal authorities, but these rights are being violated every single day in Minneapolis. And the Republicans who management Congress and the pundits they hearken to on right-wing media merely don’t care.
Congressional Democrats are offering legislation that would rein in the lawless and unconstitutional actions of the federal goons who’re smashing into houses, confiscating vehicles, kidnapping mother and father and children, roughing up protesters and taking pictures and killing residents. They’re proposing one thing quite simple and rational: These poorly educated and overtly violent federal cops ought to need to function beneath the identical guidelines as reputable police, together with no masks, clear identification, no arrests with out judicial warrants, use-of-force tips and no racial profiling.
Republicans are opposed, both as a result of they don’t need to offend the king/president, or as a result of they don’t consider the Invoice of Rights applies to their political rivals.
Conservatives and Republicans declare to be nice patriots and champions of the Structure, however, by their phrases and actions, they appear way more just like the Tories of 1776 who gave their fealty to a king and cheered when the monarch’s troops shot folks on the streets of Boston and went on a hunt for the Sons of Liberty.
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