• Fandangalo@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    This story is such fascist bullshit to read.

    Germany in the 1940s “Open up! You’re harboring Jews!”

    America in 2025, “Open up! You’re harboring political enemies!”

    These people expedite the erosion of law. When federal agents don’t follow the law & the injustice is obvious, it’ll turn into anarchy, which is followed by a ‘justified’ police state / Marshall law. We’re no better than our enemies. We used to care about the optics, but now even that is dropped.

    So disappointed by this country.

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    So I guess the question is: Did they need a warrant? Who’s property is that? IMO it’s property of the legislative branch, so the executive should have a warrant. Not sure what the law says though.

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      Ownership might be complicated. Its a legislative office that’s leased from a courthouse.

      They surely needed a warrant since they were not in hot pursuit of a criminal; hence the need to fabricate a story about rioters.

  • John Richard@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Wasn’t Nixon forced to resign for having people break into a congressional office. Now it’s just another Tuesday?