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Originally Posted by Teak
You are the one asserting that you can not leave. You can, if you want to go to Pakistan, and if they will let you in, go for it. Now if you are stupid enough to contact an individual or a group that has been declared a terrorist organization, by our duly elected government, thats your problem, and a very poor choice. Much like going on a bank robbery and just setting in the car.
My belief has alway been, and remains to this day, if you act like a criminal, expected to be treated like a criminal. At least in this country you will get a day in court. In those you like to create scenarios for there is seldom a court, just a bullet, when they disapprove of what you do, or say.
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Well, just because you get your day in court, that doesn't mean you get justice.
Consider the case of the Tulia victims of persecution. 13 people spent four years in prison, and 46 others were arrested, imprisoned, and in many cases convicted of drug dealing, although their real crime was being black in Tulia, Texas. Their local government sought to get rid of them. But that is merely a recent example of government power applied to a group of people considered undesirable.
That of course, doesn't involve people leaving the US; they were merely passive victims, but the case of Tre Arrow, an environmental activist who, when it was clear he was being targeted for terrorism charges, left for Canada where he sought asylum. However, the US government sought his extradition, and he is now waiting trial on charges that are based only on testimony of someone seeking to profit from helping the Bush administration convict Tre as a terrorist. The charges are based on the testimony of one of three co-conspirators in a set of arsons claiming Tre was the mastermind; the other two co-conspirators claim Tre was not involved. The reward for the testimony is not being sentenced to life in prison, a sentence harsher than that given for those convicted of murder.
The US Constitution and Bill of Rights does nothing to protect those that the majority can be made to fear, like Hispanics - call them illegals, blacks and the poor - call them drug dealers, environmental activists - call them terrorists, war protesters - call them traitors and terrorists and deserters, doctors and family planning councilors - call them murders.