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Ocasio-Cortez responded by questioning Tom Homan's ability to read, suggesting he take a look at the Constitution
LOL
Knowing your rights is an act of resistance. And it is perfectly legal (for now).
She's quite good at this game.
This isn't the first time the US would rather citizens not know their rights. I am sure there are a couple cases, but the US helped Britain keep it's citizens in the dark when the British kicked out the people of the Chagos Islands. From Wikipedia
The Chagos Islands had been home to the Chagossians, a Bourbonnais Creole-speaking people, until the United Kingdom expelled them from the archipelago at the request of the United States between 1967 and 1973 to allow the United States to build Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, a military base on Diego Garcia, on land leased from the UK military in the British Indian Ocean Territories. Since 1971, only the atoll of Diego Garcia has been inhabited, and only by employees of the US military, including American civilian contracted personnel. Since being expelled, Chagossians, like all others not permitted by the UK or US governments, have been prevented from entering the islands.
The British government would find ways to get the locals to leave the very remote islands and then not let them return. It made sure they didn't know they were actually British citizens with rights. The US was also nice enough to exterminate all of the islands pets in a very cruel manner.
Behind the Bastards has a GREAT podcast on the whole situation. Highly recommend a listen
There's an also an excellent episode of We Have Ways of Making You Talk (normally a WWII podcast) from a few years ago where they interview the lawyer who has been working with the Chagassians for decades to get justice.
It's important to note that the UK government has officially declared that they are returning the Chagos Islands to their original inhabitants. The work was started under the Conservatives, and completed under the current Labor government.
Just in time! Only took decades, and the original people who were forced off the island are mostly gone. I do appreciate them trying to make things right. I wish the US would work harder to fix the human rights violations it has committed in it's past.
I don't care what that guy says, I want to see her work. Where's the seminar? Where's the information about our rights? This is distraction.
(Edit:) https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3li6facwhtk2i
(Apologies for the link to a proprietary walled-garden social network. It was too much work to transfer just the information)
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