Political Prisoner in America who was arrested for Free Speech
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Mahmoud Khalil is a test. If they get away with this it’s only going to escalate.
Arrested is an understatement. They grabbed him off the street in NYC, didn’t charge him with anything and shipped him off to Louisiana.
I’m out of the loop on this one. Anyone have a link to an article?
That slope is slippery. Kill the ride or go down inflames with it.
Political speech is protected, they’re not accusing him of any other crimes aside from disagreeing with the President’s policies which they say makes him a national security risk.
I’d like to see the right wing “Free Speech” crowd come out against this but they only seem concerned with ensuring nazis can post on twitter.
Absolutely no one should be ok with this, you give the government the power to do this and they will use it on anyone right or left.
This is genuinely much worse than if they’d drummed up a ridiculous crime to charge him with. They’re outright saying he is NOT accused of crimes. It’s a conscious, flagrant, public negating of the first amendment. There are a lot of moments that make up the road to tyranny but this is a, uh, fuckin big one.
How can this be considered antisemitism yet Trump allows Musk a green card recipient to Heil Hitler.
They want to be able to disappear people. It won’t work.
But it’s OK to hit Capitol police with batons and bear spray.
And has anyone seen evidence?
With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. — Judge Aaron Satie, quoted by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek TNG, Thé drumhead trial)
If any one of you were as scared as you say the rest of us should be, then you wouldn’t be posting the dissenting opinions that you do. Amazing the echo chamber that Reddit is. A different opinion is the only thing that isn’t tolerated.
If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it’s revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
This can turn into any and all protest/speech against the Israeli government, or speech supporting the right of Palestinians to life / liberty / dignity, as “aligned with Hamas”, class it as “Material Support” of an FTO, and start arrests. We can hate Hamas AND recognize not all Palestinians are evil or even wanted this, surely????
Regardless of if we hate someone or even just neutral and don’t care about what happens to them, we should all want these types of issues dealt with humanely, properly.
While I don’t agree with his arrest and the purpose was clearly to silence him, he did a lot more than just speech. Breaking into campus buildings and taking control of them to disrupt campus activities, purposefully targeting and confronting specific groups with your protest in order to intimidate them — those actions both extend well beyond first amendment rights.
Stop making a victim out of him. He’s a hamas supporter.
The irony of the fact that self proclaimed protectors of democracy are citing free speech and American ideals in favor of this man who supports a regime that stands for everything polar opposite of what the USA is supposed to stand for.
Whatever else your current admin does or does not do, deporting/ jailing Islamists and their enablers is one good thing they’re doing.
This one of those ‘Muslims against Harris’ folks?Â
Luckily there wasn’t a big riot and mob on, oh I don’t know I’ll just pick a random date like, January 6th, where the person who incited it got away.
*Arrested for using free speech against genocide.
Should he be deported? No. Should he be tried for handing out literal propaganda from Hamas – a state-designated terrorist organization? Yeah, probably.
Support for terrorist organizations is not free speech.
Dude looks like Justin Timberlake.
He wasn’t arrested for free speech you donuts. He took over a building and put people in harm.
“The Immigration and Nationality Act is a set of immigration law provisions enacted in 1952.
The act includes numerous grounds for deportation, including a provision that says a non-citizen “whose presence or activities in the United States the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States is deportable.”
He’s fucked.
Mr. Khalil is not a U.S. citizen, and legal experts confirm that green card holders can be deported on national security grounds—the basis for his deportation.
More broadly, if you enter the U.S. as a visitor and actively protest its policies, you should be prepared for potential consequences.
It’s extremely ignorant and misinformed to call this “free speech”. He led the takeover of a building, and helped create an encampment on campus that blocked it from operating normally and blocked other students from going to class.
He crossed the line far past speech, and into actions that harmed others. You’re allowed to say what you want, but he tried to hold an entire university hostage to his demands.
This guy is absolute scum.
I remember a time not to long ago when there was serious debates about KNOWN terrorist getting their due process. Now we are doing this shit. I feel I’m in the multiverse without a clue of how to get home.
If y’all let this happen it’s going to get so so much worse so so much faster
Do you want to know at least one reason the left is less popular than ever? Supporting terrorist groups. You’re basically just giving 2028 to Vance.
I mean he’s a non citizen, using all of American society to advance himself. I’m just saying, if I were living in Italy as a non-citizen, I’d not speak out against the government hosting me – just common sense. If he were a citizen from here that’s different.
I thought he was arrested for leading the violent protest which broke into buildings on Columbia’s campus
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