“Many are worth defending in light of our founding; others aren’t,” Pompeo said at a launch ceremony in Philadelphia. He did not specify which rights he thought were superfluous, but the state department during his tenure has been aggressive in opposing references to reproductive and gender rights in UN and other multilateral documents.
I was rather taken aback with the focus on these rights. What about right to life and bodily integrity (eg. being free from bodily harm), freedom, discrimination, political assembly? To name 4 that I will always consider more important than private property or religious freedom.
Did the founding fathers really consider these two more important than "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"?
It does explain the "fuck lives because the economy" reaction to the pandemic in the US. — Benkei
I am "taken aback" by goddam near everything this administration does with regard to goddam near anything it encounters. — Frank Apisa
Michael
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I am "taken aback" by goddam near everything this administration does with regard to goddam near anything it encounters.
— Frank Apisa
I've heard that there are now unidentified federal officers in unmarked cars arresting protestors. — Michael
tim wood
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Never mind Pompeo, he just wants to be - and he cannot make up his mind which - Mussolini or Goering.
And language does not easily encompass him and his, Trump and the people of his administration. At the moment I'm torn between "infection" and "infestation." It is a mistake to think of them as people. — tim wood
I've heard that there are now unidentified federal officers in unmarked cars arresting protestors. — Michael
Pettibone said he still does not know who arrested him or whether what happened to him legally qualifies as an arrest. The federal officers who snatched him off the street as he was walking home from a peaceful protest did not tell him why he had been detained or provide him any record of an arrest, he told The Post. As far as he knows, he has not been charged with any crimes.
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“A peaceful protester in Portland was shot in the head by one of Donald Trump’s secret police,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wrote in a Thursday tweet that also called out acting DHS secretary Chad Wolf. “Now Trump and Chad Wolf are weaponizing the DHS as their own occupying army to provoke violence on the streets of my hometown because they think it plays well with right-wing media.”
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