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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    And those ‘terrorist activities’?

    “He hurt our fee-fees by highlighting the abuses we were committing!”

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    DHS is always lying. They get caught often enough that you know that you are seeing a small fraction of their criminal behavior.

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      Its kind of jarring to have them both trying to normalize child sex abuse while still using it as the emotional trigger for justification of losing rights.

      Like does the US like pedophiles or not? Pick a lane!

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    But they’re allowed to do that. SCOTUS believes everyone at or near a border or within eyeshot of their agents is ripe for phone searching and whatever else they want to do because they don’t care.

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      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.