4.16.25 - Wake Me Up When September Ends
When I was two, on September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. We passed the Authorization for Use of Military Froce Act.
That year we invaded Afghanistan.
When I was three we established the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
When I was four we invaded Iraq based on lies our government told our people.
When I was five my military was exposed for torturing people in Abu Ghraib prison.
We launched a mass surveillance operation against American civilians.
We authorized the President to designate and imprison U.S. Citizens as enemy combatants on U.S. soil, and keep them in military prisons. The Supreme Court has never held this to be ilegal. The torture memos by John Yoo were leaked that year, suggesting the President could defy legal treaties that our Congress had entered into.
Now the government is using the Alien Enemies Act to designate refugees and undocumented immigrants as terrorists, even if they haven't commited a crime, and sending them to a Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador.
They maintain there is no recourse for when they err, under the President's expansive foreign affairs power.
The President is now talking about sending American citizens to this prison.
First they do this to the terrorists, then to suspected terrorists, then to illegal gang members, then to non-criminal immigrants, then to people who simply may be illegal immigrants, and now they are going to do it to you.
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