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Those who hesitate who dont have their documentation in order, who look out of place, or simply fail to comply fast enough are dragged away. Vanished. Disappeared into the gulag or the prison camps, never to be seen again.
It was always framed as national security. Public order. Protecting the homeland. But what it really was, in both Hitlers Germany and Stalins USSR, was authoritarianism dressed up as bureaucracy.
Republicans in the House have passed legislation requiring people to bring their passports to register to vote; increasingly Americans with brown skin are today carrying their citizenship papers, birth certificates, and even passports out of fear of a chance encounter with ICE.
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gab13by13
(27,786 posts)timms139
(239 posts)be required to bring a updated background check by a law enforcement agency to prove they're not convicted felons in order to be allowed to vote .
dedl67
(11 posts)is that man doesn't learn from history - Hegel
Gordcanuck
(64 posts)certain age, and know that fighting back with actions that out the oppressors are necessary now, not later when they come for you. Your legislators wont do it, your judiciary is on the correct side but is toothless, and even your friendly northern neighbour🇨🇦 is sending legitimate asylum seekers back to purgatory.
Yet you are the majority and have the power to stop this madness. Get organized, otherwise its papers, please and off you go.
paleotn
(20,275 posts)they were told their papers werent in order when they actually were, just to spread fear and reiterate whos in charge, or simply to fuck with people. Common in the old Soviet Union.
mzmolly
(52,105 posts)That nonsense isnt going to help with white men in Appalachia. Its more likely that College educated people will have passports. I do worry about women who have changed their name, or men for that matter. And, the whole idea that we need a passport to vote? I guess at least well have the ability to flee the country.