“The Biden Administration is getting bolder. Heaven help us if Biden gets 2nd term.”
I suspect that a lot of FReepers will have to wonder whether we will be allowed to obtain Exit Visas, considering what some of us has posted.
Nixon got two terms …. How did that one work out?
I’m just hoping we stay out of the gulag.
Why should Heaven help us? Heaven says “We tried to help you. We sent you Donald Trump.” You said, “we will not have that man leading us. We We want Joe Biden to lead us.” It was allowed.
The Election of 2020 was the first election in American history where the voters finally got all of what they voted for.
“I suspect that a lot of FReepers will have to wonder whether we will be allowed to obtain Exit Visas, considering what some of us has posted.”
Just some academic discussion here...
Prior to WW2 the United States had a very active number of Nazi sympathizers, Hitler supporters, and advocates of Nazi philosophies and Nazi claims. Up until September 1939 they were perfectly free to do whatever they wanted to and they even had some support in government and in the media.
But things changed.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-nazism-and-madison-square-garden
“Within a year, every leader of the Bund was interned or jailed as dangerous aliens, and by the end of December 1941, the US Government outlawed the German-American Bund.”
In short, Americans have an endless appetite for internal dissent. We even like it. But when war comes things get uncomfortable for those who supported the person or nation that made war on the USA.
Even with the pro-Palestinian rioters they hit their limit and now they’re being jailed and the college kids who agitated for them are being quietly expelled and even denied their diplomas.
I loathe Joe Biden and will say so freely. I even used to like Putin until he went on the warpath. But I never put Putin and Russia ahead of the United States. Not ever.
I love Israel but would never put Israel ahead of the United States. Not ever.
Those folks who agitate for a foreign leader or foreign power over the interests of the USA are indeed taking a risk.
I am not saying that anyone will necessarily come get you.
But if Russia makes good on their threats to attack the USA then the American public may well demand that Russian sympathizers be hunted down and jailed. It’s happened before and there is no reason why it can’t happen again.
And all of my own lofty words about our Constitution and our rights will be but a tiny sound in a veritable stadium full of screaming people who will predictably want retribution.
Case in point is Scott Ritter. He may well have been denied an exit pending new criminal charges, that would be a legitimate reason to seize his passport. Or someone has done the calculus and determined that now is an acceptable time to start going after people who overtly support Russia and Putin ahead of their own country.
We’ll see. I imagine Ritter’s lawyers will respond to this and some semblance of truth will eventually surface. And then we’ll find out what it is.
If he’s been up to his old tricks trying to lure teenage girls then I’m sure that will hit the press.
If this is purely political? I might actually donate to his defense. I suppose we’ll see.