Michael Moynihan
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And I'm on the board of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, America's premier, perhaps the planet's premier civil liberties organization. And people like us, and I mean us collectively, all four of us, and most of the people watching, I'm sure, are rabid free speech defenders.
And I'm on the board of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, America's premier, perhaps the planet's premier civil liberties organization. And people like us, and I mean us collectively, all four of us, and most of the people watching, I'm sure, are rabid free speech defenders.
And what that means is that in many instances, you find yourself defending people who are saying awful things or awful people who are saying things that are just fine and ought to be okay. And it becomes a difficult circumstance when most of the time that's greeted with a kind of disingenuous, Well, you think Holocaust denial is great. And it's not that at all. We know that the procedure matters.
And what that means is that in many instances, you find yourself defending people who are saying awful things or awful people who are saying things that are just fine and ought to be okay. And it becomes a difficult circumstance when most of the time that's greeted with a kind of disingenuous, Well, you think Holocaust denial is great. And it's not that at all. We know that the procedure matters.
And what that means is that in many instances, you find yourself defending people who are saying awful things or awful people who are saying things that are just fine and ought to be okay. And it becomes a difficult circumstance when most of the time that's greeted with a kind of disingenuous, Well, you think Holocaust denial is great. And it's not that at all. We know that the procedure matters.
We know that the marginal kind of edge cases matter a great deal. And here we have a somewhat edge case, like a guy with a somewhat dodgy record, an uncertain circumstance with respect to the kind of his legal status and situation, but an admitted mistake on the part of the Trump administration, at least by the Justice Department,
We know that the marginal kind of edge cases matter a great deal. And here we have a somewhat edge case, like a guy with a somewhat dodgy record, an uncertain circumstance with respect to the kind of his legal status and situation, but an admitted mistake on the part of the Trump administration, at least by the Justice Department,
We know that the marginal kind of edge cases matter a great deal. And here we have a somewhat edge case, like a guy with a somewhat dodgy record, an uncertain circumstance with respect to the kind of his legal status and situation, but an admitted mistake on the part of the Trump administration, at least by the Justice Department,
that there was a clerical error of sorts and they probably shouldn't have done things the way that they did it, which is at the core of much of the consternation about these deportations. It's easy to kind of talk about this in apocalyptic ways that are perhaps too absurd, but it's also important to just acknowledge what is happening here. We do have a circumstance where
that there was a clerical error of sorts and they probably shouldn't have done things the way that they did it, which is at the core of much of the consternation about these deportations. It's easy to kind of talk about this in apocalyptic ways that are perhaps too absurd, but it's also important to just acknowledge what is happening here. We do have a circumstance where
that there was a clerical error of sorts and they probably shouldn't have done things the way that they did it, which is at the core of much of the consternation about these deportations. It's easy to kind of talk about this in apocalyptic ways that are perhaps too absurd, but it's also important to just acknowledge what is happening here. We do have a circumstance where
people who work for the US government will show up, they will tell you what agency they're from, but sometimes they're in masks, sometimes they're in unmarked vehicles, and they will kind of spirit you away. And they'll move you around to different facilities in order to make it hard for you to kind of marshal, mount a legal defense for yourself.
people who work for the US government will show up, they will tell you what agency they're from, but sometimes they're in masks, sometimes they're in unmarked vehicles, and they will kind of spirit you away. And they'll move you around to different facilities in order to make it hard for you to kind of marshal, mount a legal defense for yourself.
people who work for the US government will show up, they will tell you what agency they're from, but sometimes they're in masks, sometimes they're in unmarked vehicles, and they will kind of spirit you away. And they'll move you around to different facilities in order to make it hard for you to kind of marshal, mount a legal defense for yourself.
And then they'll ship you off to a country where we have very credible reports of systematic human rights violations and all sorts of other bad things. Is that the kind of America that we want to live in?
And then they'll ship you off to a country where we have very credible reports of systematic human rights violations and all sorts of other bad things. Is that the kind of America that we want to live in?
And then they'll ship you off to a country where we have very credible reports of systematic human rights violations and all sorts of other bad things. Is that the kind of America that we want to live in?
I don't know. I don't know. There are all sorts of nuances here. And I think just in general, all I'm trying to underscore here is at a minimum, it's relevant that there are technical issues here. It's relevant that there are court objections. And it's relevant that there are kind of public relations issues. But at the core...
I don't know. I don't know. There are all sorts of nuances here. And I think just in general, all I'm trying to underscore here is at a minimum, it's relevant that there are technical issues here. It's relevant that there are court objections. And it's relevant that there are kind of public relations issues. But at the core...
I don't know. I don't know. There are all sorts of nuances here. And I think just in general, all I'm trying to underscore here is at a minimum, it's relevant that there are technical issues here. It's relevant that there are court objections. And it's relevant that there are kind of public relations issues. But at the core...