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Asa Winstanley had his devices taken and his house searched by the pigs, even though he wasn’t charged with anything. This was in the UK where that’s a lot easier for them to do than in the US, but laws are changing every day.
I bring up Asa because I’m familiar with his work and his social media, and I can say what he says is tame compared to us. We’re all pretty openly very supportive of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran (just yesterday I was asking if someone could help make an Al-Qassam Brigades wallpaper). If we got hit for anything, I think it would be for “supporting terrorism”.
Granted, I really think that would only involve trying to shut down the website, which we could always just create a new one in a worst case scenario. I don’t think going after individual users is really on the table, that would require NSA type action and the feds aren’t going to break out those resources on some poxy commie website.
Same in Germany. If the police search your electronics and find your posting history criticizing Israel, they could use it as proof of what the German state classifies as antisemitic or hate speech.
Gemany is so perverse.
Yeah it sucks because Asa is doing good political journalism but what are we doing except advocating for redacted
Judges in most us jurisdictions will rubber-stamp warrants for raids no matter how ridiculous they are. There aren't any real barriers to raids and seizures in the us. If they want to they probably can.
And they can be brutal about it. Like breaking doors off hinges, smashing walls and cutting up furniture "looking for evidence" tearing everything you own apart. Just being as cruel as possible to hurt their victims.