Reply #82: You won't disappear

[Marie26]

Too well-known, too many followers. The Lebanese immigrant who donated $30 dollars to a Muslim charity will disappear. The student from Egpyt who's visa just expired. The long-time resident who attends a mosque where the FBI suspects a possible terrorist plot. They will disappear, and they will be just as unnoticed in the real world as they are here on DU. Why is it always about us? Why do people only seem to care about how this will affect liberals, or activists? It may well reach that point, but it's not there yet.

Right now, this bill affects "aliens" - immigrants, residents and non-US citizens, who have been deprived of any right of due process or a fair trial. We've created a seperate judicial system of kangaroo courts, only for certain types of people. The law does not apply equally anymore. For the first time ever in American history, we've created a segregated court system for the "less worthy." And the "less worthy" are the resident aliens who have now been deemed the enemy. This reminds me very much of the internment of Japanese during WWII. I don't mean to sound unfair, and it's true that this bill could eventually extend to any US citizen, but I feel people are overlooking the most likely potential target of these "disappearances" (if they happen). And that bothers me, because it seems to imply that people don't care about abuses as long as it isn't happening to a US citizen. When this bill is signed, any alien can be tossed into a gulag w/no right of appeal, no right to a speedy trial, no right to petition before a judge, and can be executed w/o his sentence ever being seen by a civilian court.