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Subject: Re: OT: "Free speech" becomes a verb & noun...
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On Feb 5, 2025 at 4:14:07 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> On 2/5/2025 6:32 PM, Pluted Pup wrote:
>>  On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:37:20 -0800, moviePig wrote:
>>  
>>> 
>>>  "Trump administration to cancel student visas of pro-Palestinian protesters"
>>  
>>  Egregious, but no where is that quote in the article you cited:
>>  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-cancel-student-visas-all-hamas-sympathizers-white-house-2025-01-29/
>>  
>>  That article appears to be about whether Trump wants to
>>  militarily invade Palestine to expel the people from Gaza.
> 
> Interesting.  Looks like Reuters may have retracted (incompetently) the 
> original article, which was headlined as I quoted.  The new emphasis 
> would now appear to be on "pro-Hamas" rather than "pro-Palestinian". 
> Regardless, it still smacks of curtailment of free speech.

So even when they clarify that they're only going after those resident aliens
who support a terrorist organization, you're still worried about their free
speech rights.

> (I.e., one could support *some* of Hamas's stated goals without bombing Tel
> Aviv.)

And one could support those goals without expressing support for Hamas but
they choose to do the latter.