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Acquiescing to criminalization of immigration violations is what enabled this govt to threaten all Americans' liberties [View all]
...it's what's enabled the republicans into office who voted in billions of funding for the mostly unaccountable militarized federal force, whose defense against threats from a citizens protesting them, is being used as pretext to deploy armed troops with repressive control over ALL the inhabitants of states, not just the invented criminals the president claims he's protecting citizens from.
No oppressive criminalization of immigration violations, no need for a militarized regime that requires the force of the military to enable its tyranny over the people in this country.
Our ultimate choice.
"What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy. These are not our reliance against tyranny. All of those may be turned against us without making us weaker for the struggle.
Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere.
Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you."
__Abraham Lincoln, Edwardsville, Illinois 09-11-1858 as reported in the Alton Weekly Courier.
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