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DHS Said They Searched Man Who Wiped GrapheneOS Phone for Child Abuse Material. They Lied (www.404media.co)
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Officials said they wanted to search the phone of Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, for child abuse material. It was actually because he was suspected of “terrorist activities.”

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[–] 14 points 6 hours ago* (3 children)

SCOTUS also said that black people born in America weren't citizens and that rounding people up into concentration camps based solely on their race was A-OK. SCOTUS has a long history of tyrannical bullshit rulings, so what's your point?

Blatantly unconstitutional "rulings" don't make DHS's behavior legitimate; they only destroy the legitimacy of SCOTUS itself.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    Oh I fully believe they would rule that the constitution only applies to men because women were property when it was written. It's wrong but there's no path to fix it without a lot of deaths so we can pass more needed amendments for privacy, civil rights, gun control, and politician ethics.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    I think frustrated_phagocytosis is implying that they didn't need this lie since they could already search his phone, which fits with the pattern of fascists lying out of habit than out of strategy.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 hours ago

    No, they want to absolutely destroy this guy in every possible way they can. He opposed Cop City, and that makes it personal for the fascist pigs.

    (Source: I'm a local who was intimidated into keeping my distance from Stop Cop City specifically because of tyranny like this.)

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