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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.

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[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

The rest of the world has their own stuff to deal with. America is going to have to resolve its own problems.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

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.