Targeting pro-Palestinian activist for deportation another step in road to tyranny

Editor:

Was Patrick Henry a radical revolutionary? When he exclaimed, “Give me liberty or give me death!” was he spouting an extremist sentiment?

Our government has proclaimed that Mahmoud Khalil—a legal resident of the United States—should be deported for his pro-Palestinian rhetoric that makes some Jewish students at Columbia University feel unsafe.

After all he has led anti-Israel protests that call attention to Benjamin Netanyahu’s decidedly anti-Palestinian policies. His detractors apparently feel that, in Khalil’s case, the first amendment does not apply. There are just some subjects about which freedom of speech should be set aside or restricted.

Hey, this guy is no doubt a Muslim. The founding fathers couldn’t have wanted non-Christians to enjoy the freedoms covered by the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution, could they?

As citizens of this republic, we must be vigilant. The dissolution of a representative democracy begins with the usurpation of the freedoms unpopular minorities enjoy. After all, there aren’t that many pro-Palestinian people around the United States. How is it a big deal that a few people lose their rights?

That is how the road to tyranny starts. Where does it end?

By the time we start giving this stuff our attention it may well be “game over”.

Sincerely yours,

Gary Kent

Albion