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On this day in 2001, George W Bush signed the Patriot Act giving himself unprecedented & unchecked powers to indefinitely detain immigrants, criminalize political dissent & his gov the right to search all phone, email & anyone’s home w/out a court order.
In the months after 9/11, hundreds of Muslim men were arrested & held for months w/out charge simply because of their religion. Those arrested were held “in solitary confinement 23 hours a day w/ regular strip searches”.
One of the victims of these policies was Brandon Mayfield, a Muslim convert, who nearly had his life destroyed when the Bush admin falsely accused him of conducting an al Qaeda terror attack in Spain.
america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/…
A group of the victims filed a lawsuit seeking damages from the Bush admin, but the Supreme Court struck down their lawsuit & they have not received justice. businessinsider.com/supreme-court-…
In 2003, the FBI began counting the number of Muslims & mosques in the US. FBI also conducted so-called “voluntary” interviews of nearly 500,000 American Muslim & Arab men between 2001-2005. aclu.org/news/aclu-call…
Today, the FBI has 15,000 spies and informants, mainly targeting the Muslim community, and as many as 45,000 “unofficial” informants.
npr.org/2011/08/21/139…
The Obama admin continued the Patriot Act. On May 26, 2011, Obama signed the PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011, a 4-year extension of three key provisions in the Act; allowing roving wiretaps, searches of business records, and surveillance of "lone wolf" attackers.
A US government review of these mass surveillance programs found that had resulting in the arrest of a single terrorist. vox.com/2015/6/2/87014…
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On this day in 1862, Abraham Lincoln ordered the largest ever mass execution in US history, hanging 38 innocent Dakota men. The execution followed sham military trials where they were found 'guilty' of the ‘crime’ of resisting starvation & their own ethnic cleansing.
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