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"Niemals wieder" is in de VS nu: "elke dag".

The Trump administration is now targeting Yunseo Chung, a lawful permanent resident of the USA and a 21-year-old student at Columbia University, for her constitutionally protected speech. You could be next. Chung is a junior at Columbia University. She was the valedictorian at her high school, has lived in the United States since she was 7 years old, and is an academically gifted student. She was one of hundreds of Columbia students who protested Israel's brutality in Gaza, considered a genocide by many scholars of genocide, international human right organizations, and ordinary people everywhere. Chung was not a leader of the Columbia protests nor was she an identifiable face of the protests. She was a student, like hundreds of others (including those leading the protests), who was expressing a political opinion. For that reason, the Trump administration has informed her that, with no due process, her lawful permanent resident status was being "revoked." Now, they're attempting to deport this 21-year-old student who, even according to the government, has committed no crime. She's basically gone into hiding from the government thugs who are looking for her in unmarked vans. What kind of country have we become? Lawyers at CLEAR, a legal clinic at the City University of New York, are suing the government to stop her deportation. The Feds searched her Columbia University dorm, looking for Chung, and were ready to charge anyone who helped her evade this blatantly political arrest by ICE agents with the crime of "harboring."

The Trump administration wants all these cases to get as much publicity as possible. The administration seems to believe that a message is being sent. They're going after a gifted 21-year-old student who had the audacity to participate in political protest. By targeting her, the administration must believe they're looking tough (though it's only in the way that punching down could ever be considered "tough"). Moreover, they appear to be trying to intimidate others into censoring their own speech. The Trump administration wants to scare people into silence. But we should take away at least two lessons from this latest outrage. One: they are targeting people like Mahmoud Khalil, Badar Khan Suri, Ranjani Srinivasan, Momodou Taal, Rasha Alawieh, and now Yunseo Chung. Notice anything? The targeting of people of color by this white supremacist administration has never been clearer. Two: the idea that these actions will scare people into their silence will, I'm certain, backfire. The American people are seeing more than ever the lawless nature of this government. Such actions by the Trump administration should and will bring more people to the realization that governments lie to them and that this government must be opposed, if only out of direct self-interest of being able to have a political opinion in this country. That's what's now at stake.

- Terwijl we zelf met een extreemrechts kabinet zitten wat dikke vrienden wil blijven met deze fascistische staat;

- Terwijl we in Nederland en vele andere Europese landen doen alsof wij helemaal anders zijn;

- Terwijl we allemaal weten dat Wilders precies hetzelfde van plan is;

- Terwijl extreemrechts enorm is gegroeid dankzij de collaboratie door VVD en NSC, en het gedogen door alle andere partijen en media ("laten we ze behandelen als een normale partij") ;

- Terwijl de collaboratie en normalisering van fascisme in mainstream media alleen maar in een stroomversnelling is gekomen, zelfs al zien we allemaal aankomen dat Schreeuwwitje II net zo heftig zal willen zijn als Trump II;

Blijft één ding waar:

Alleen doordat mensen bij voorbaat gehoorzamen, krijgen dictators macht.

Gehoorzaam niet.
Weiger collaboratie, ook in Nederland.

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