The arrest of a US army veteran who protested against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has raised alarms among legal experts and fellow veterans familiar with his service in Afghanistan.

Bajun Mavalwalla II – a former army sergeant who survived a roadside bomb blast on a special operations mission in Afghanistan – was charged in July with “conspiracy to impede or injure officers” after joining a demonstration against federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in Spokane, Washington.

Legal experts say the case marks an escalation in the administration’s attacks on first amendment rights. Afghanistan war veterans who know him say the case against Mavalwalla appears unjust.

  • TuffNutzes@lemmy.world
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    Looking forward to the day every single one of these jack-booted thugs from the Nazi leaders at the top all the way down to the ICE Gestapo pigs face Justice at our version of the Nuremberg trials.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      The Nuremberg Trials barely got down to the level that these guys are at. They sorta gave up after a while.

      Though Christopher Lee probably took care of a few of them.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      Wasn’t that the Jan 6th hearings? No one got pardoned from Nuremburg. Political pardons aren’t even a thing in most countries.

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      Do not hold your breath. By all indications these guys are going to consolidate power and make a one-party stay with rigged elections. We have no opposition popular or muscular or ambitious enough to unseat them. After 2028 it is doubtful any opposition could unseat them.

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      And who is going to do that? The rest of the world is going to sit idly by as the US marches brown and lgbt+ people into the extermination camps. Hell half of them will use it as justification to build their own camps and invade the other half. All while the world slowly cooks itself.

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        A depressing thought, if Nazi Germany had only done the Holocaust without the invasions, the powers of the time would have completely ignored it. At most they would have shook their heads disapprovingly.

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          China genocided the Uhygurs, and the world kind of just watched it happen.

          We’re still just sitting and watching Isreal exterminate the Palestinians. No country has impeaded Isreal in any meaningful way.