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Reblogging this becasue where the USA goes so does the UK follow ... especially if we end up electing Farage to power!

Lock Them Up—And Throw Away the Constitution?

Image: Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Credit: Gage Skidmore

They’re Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

Last weekend, the Trump administration floated something almost unspeakable in a free republic: the suspension of habeas corpus. That’s not a policy dispute. That’s not “tough on immigration.” That’s authoritarianism—raw, unveiled, and shockingly open.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller confirmed they’re “actively looking at” suspending the writ. The centuries-old right to challenge unlawful imprisonment. The constitutional bedrock. The difference between a republic and a regime.

Let’s be clear: this is the most dangerous idea floated by the Trump administration since it returned to power. If we don’t sound the alarm now, we may not have the right to do so later.

What Is Habeas Corpus, and Why Does It Matter?

The phrase habeas corpus comes from Latin, meaning “you shall have the body.” This is far more than words. It is a legal shield—allowing anyone held by the government to demand a judge review their detention. It is the right to not disappear. The right to not rot in a cell without charge or trial.

It is the first domino in any authoritarian playbook.

Without habeas corpus, there is no limit to who the government can imprison. Political dissidents. Journalists. Migrants. You.

Can the President Suspend It? No.

The Trump White House is trying to justify a possible suspension by citing Article I of the Constitution, which says habeas corpus may only be suspended “when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.” But here's the problem: Article I governs Congress, not the President. The Founders placed that clause there deliberately, as a constraint, not a loophole. Even Abraham Lincoln, in the middle of an actual civil war, had to go to Congress for permission. And when he didn’t, the courts pushed back.

There is no rebellion. No invasion. No justification.

Stephen Miller’s Language Isn’t Just Political. It’s Fascist, and Here’s Why

Dehumanization Through “Invasion”

Labeling undocumented immigrants as an “invasion” is strategic. It doesn’t just raise the stakes, it militarizes human beings. It recasts families, asylum seekers, and workers as a hostile army. This is how fascists reframe civil problems as security emergencies:

Mussolini called labor unrest a threat to national sovereignty.

Hitler described Jews and Eastern Europeans as an invading infestation threatening German purity.

Franco in Spain branded Republicans as foreign infiltrators and insurgents.

By turning people into an invading force, the state grants itself the license to use military solutions like detention, deportation, and even suspension of fundamental rights.

2. The Use of Emergency Language to Expand Power

Miller isn’t arguing the law, he’s arguing for the suspension of law. He says the administration will act depending on whether courts “do the right thing.” That is fascist logic: the law exists only to serve the state’s will. If the courts uphold the Constitution, and the executive doesn't like the outcome, then the courts are the problem.

This frames judicial independence as a threat to “national security.” That’s not governance. That’s the groundwork for autocracy.

This Would Be the Fifth Time in U.S. History—and the First Without a Legitimate Cause

The writ has only been suspended four times in U.S. history:

Civil War (Lincoln)

Reconstruction (South Carolina, 1871)

Philippine Insurrection (1905)

World War II (Hawaii, 1941)

Each time was linked to clear, immediate wartime or domestic rebellion conditions. Now Trump and Miller want to add “border crisis” to that list?

It’s not constitutional. It’s not defensible. It’s not American.

This Is the Threshold. If They Cross It, We’re in New Territory.

You don’t suspend habeas corpus because you “disagree with court rulings,” as Miller suggested. That’s not law. That’s tyranny.

Once a president claims the power to imprison without judicial oversight, elections lose meaning. Dissent becomes dangerous. The rule of law collapses under the weight of executive fiat.

We are not talking about some obscure legal theory. We are talking about the mechanism by which democracies die.

Final Word: Sound the Alarm Before the Sirens Are Silenced

If the White House goes down this road, the public must be prepared for mass resistance: legal, political, and civic. Congress must act. The courts must hold. But above all, the people must rise up before the cement of tyranny sets.

The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.

The writ of habeas corpus is the thread that holds liberty together. If we let them cut it, we may never be able to stitch this republic back together again.

What You Can Do—Because Silence Isn’t an Option

the government openly entertains the suspension of habeas corpus, we are no longer debating immigration—we are fighting for the survival of due process, civil liberty, and the very concept of freedom under law.

Here’s how you can act:

📢 Share this post: Help cut through the noise. The public needs to understand what this means and what’s at stake. Use your platform: social media, group chats, campus forums, and newsletters to spread the word.

📞 Contact your representatives: Demand that Congress—especially Democrats and moderate Republicans—publicly reject any attempt to suspend habeas corpus without a formal declaration of rebellion or invasion. Silence is complicity.

🧠 Educate others: Talk to your friends, family, classmates, coworkers. Most people have never even heard of habeas corpus, let alone know what it means to lose it.

Source: Lock Them Up—And Throw Away the Constitution?

m a n   in art     🖌henry scott tuke

There is no democracy anywhere. Not in teh US, the UK, nowhere in Europe nor anywhere else. We cannot have a democracy when the choices are between this party or that party. We have no real choice and are in fact choosing the "least worst". Even when that is done we haven't chosen the real leaders, the wealthy power borkers who decide the candidates by wielding their wealth. The Electoral College in the US, the 'First past the post' in the UK are systemic barriers to a democracy as well. There is no Democracy

They did the math!!

And this is the childish egotistical bully that the UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer has been so eager to appease and to kowtow to ... Birds fo a feather!

Fucking true.

It is interesting to note that rents are typically substantially more than a mortgage would cost to buy said house. However, renters often are disenfranchised from the system for various reasons (maybe they are on benefits or low waged etc). BUT they manage to pay these exorbitant rents, so why not give them the mortgage to buy that house and pay the mortgage in the same way as they pay rent?

If you really feel this way, warn other people who are planning to become landlords that it's a bad idea. Tell them to leave homes for people who actually want to live in them, and to find something else to invest in.

But you don't do that. You brag on landlord forums about how much money you make and how little work you do. You only complain when your desire to exploit others isn't quite as profitable as you would like.

Isn't that just about the size of it. AI no 'intelligence' just artifice!

No creative should be having anything to do with AI which is simply a tool to plagiarise other people's work, rehash it and output it as garbage. Computers used to be "garbage in garbage out" the tech comanies have managed to finally develop the "Beauty in garbage out" algorithm - what a win! And it only costs massive amounts of electricity and water to achieve it

A 5 year old!!!!!!!

What can we do when there are so many people who support such monsters?

Profit is theft ... pure and simple

What sort of numbskull thinks that garbage collection is superfluous activity? You couldn't make this nonsense up!

Exactly. They can't allow us any "free" time since then we would have the time to reflect upon how ridiculous the capitalist system is and how profit is actually just theft. They have to keep us exhausted and struggling so that we don't have the energy for anything else. Capitalism needs around 5% unemployment in part to ensure that people are afraid to lose their jobs.

Henry Scott Tuke, (English, 1858-1929) Orange Jersey, 1915 oil on canvas

A clear example of the theft perpetrated by the pillaging of public resources in the wake of privatisation started by Thatcher and continued by every PM since (including the fascist-in-waiting Starmer ... he just has a new name for it, thinks he can fool us). British Gas posts billion pound profits in the wake of the highest energy prices for ever using the excuse that the Ukraine war is pushing global proces up (it may well be but such profiteering is not explained only by that). Thames water have taken out massive loans whilst paying massive bonuses to executives - when that authority is taken back into public control who will be repaying those ridiculous loans ... well not the executives. Pure, unadulterated theft

And the Fascists just keep rolling on. Labour and the Tories have made such an disgusting mess of this country in their desparation to line thier own pockets and those of their cronies that people clearly believe that they need an alternative ... and they absolutely do, but for goodness sake the fascists is only going to be out of the frying pan into the fire! We have no actual democracy when the best we can do is to choose the least worst. There is no real dofference between Labour and Tories since the dark days of New Labour (a euphemism for Tory-light). If people really feel that Reformare the way forward then I think it is time to leave the UK!!

Daniel Barkley

I fucking hate that the general response to RFK Jr's eugenist take on autistic people is "autistic people do pay taxes, autistic people do work, autistic people do date!"

Some autistic people don't and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life. Some autistic people do need constant help and support and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life.

Once again we're falling in the right wing trap of :

They make a hateful, fascist statement

Instead of focusing on the fact that it is hateful and fascist we try to show them that they are factually wrong

We throw our own allies and the most vulnerable of us under the bus in the process

We legitimise an only slightly less hateful, fascist view as we go

They have completed their goal of making us accept the still hateful, fascist second version, hurrah. What a victory.

Right now what we're getting to with that is that autistic people who can work and pay taxes are okay, and the others aren't. Fuck this shit.

Same thing happens with the people who are being deported ("they have a visa!", "they didn't even have a criminal record!" -> even if they didn't have a visa, even if they did have a criminal record, deporting them and detaining them in what's essentially a concentration camp wouldn't be okay, you absolute tools of fascism.)

Exactly so. The battle ground is bodily autonomy, if there were anything that we should all have agency over then surely it is our own bodies! Remeber; "as long as one man lives in chains the possibility exists that all men can live in chains"

The crux of the anti trans movement is a war on bodily autonomy. They don't want you to have any agency over what you look like, how you dress, who you date, whether to have kids, etc.

They want total control over you. Not just trans people. Not just queer people. You. Everyone.

Trans people are just a scapegoat. They want total control over everyone's self expression. They want the right to mold you into their perfect little cog in their dehumanizing machine.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Our rights are your rights. Our destruction is your destruction.

I don't know what to say about this - a haunting painting which evokes deep emotions about the depravity of such attitudes towards "the other" prevalent in regimes such as this, but also raising its ugly head throughout the USA at the moment, as well as in the UK with the recent supreme court ruling regarding transexuals

Five alleged homosexuals executed in Teheran, Iran, in 2007.

by Axel Void

Watercolour by Daryl Balcombe from a photograph by Bobby Augustine