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jcmaine72

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6. Trump is already itching to suspend Habeas Corpus
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 03:47 AM
12 hrs ago

A domestic terrorist attack, especially one with mass casualties, that he can pin on *any* foreign national would give him carte blanche in his own eyes and in those of his cultist followers to essentially suspend or ignore any portion of our constitution or legal system he wishes. Mass deportations and interments by the millions would soon follow. American citizens who protest or take umbrage will also be arrested and detained en masse indefinitely without legal recourse. As a cherry on top, he'll give his crimes and final destruction of our Republic some stupid name, like "Big Beautiful Freedom Act".

I really wish I was just being hyperbolic here, but not only is this scenario plausible but extremely likely if not inevitable in the event of (God forbid) an attack on the scale of 9/11 in terms of casualties and horror, and perhaps even following an attack on a smaller scale as well.

We're living in dark times indeed.

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