MAGA dictatorship against free speech

MAGA elites deny that they oppose speech that they claim is critical or bad for the US or its interests. Their rhetoric claims to be pro-free speech. But the true intention is the opposite. MAGA elites want to shut all critics up. MAGA's hypocrisy on this point is off the charts.

House MAGA politician, Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), has proposed a law that takes major step toward full censorship of all free speech that MAGA dislikes or disagrees with. The deceit in the proposed law is that it targets speech allegedly related to terrorist groups. But given its intentionally ambiguous language, the law empowers the Secretary of State, currently the MAGA thug Marco Rubio, unlimited power to passports of any US citizen who says anything he claims provide "material support" for any terrorist group. 

The proposed law specifies that alleged support for terrorist groups triggers Rubio's power to revoke a passport. The problem is that Rubio's unilateral determination that a person has provided "material support" to a terrorist group cannot be reviewed by any court. Unlike other federal laws that include detailed definitions of what amounts to "material support", e.g., 18 U.S.C. § 2339A, Mast's dictator law intentionally leaves the concept completely undefined. Rubio personally gets to decide what material support is and the courts cannot intervene. 

The bill simply states the Secretary may revoke passports for people who "the Secretary determines" provided material support. In short, this bill gives unprecedented power one executive branch official to restrict fundamental constitutional rights based on unilateral subjective determinations. There is no provision for independent judicial oversight or clear standards of evidence. This is dictatorship, pure and simple.

Despite their rudderless dysfunction, Senate Democrats will presumably prevent this dictator law from passing. If so, the law will die as a symbol of MAGA aspirations to control everything with a brutal iron fist. I post this as evidence of the autocratic mindset that drives MAGA elites. Despite Democratic Party dysfunction, one can presume that the chances of this rotten law passing into real law is nil.**

** Of course, all bets are off if Senate Repubs vote to get rid of the filibuster or they simply attach this law to another bill that can be passed via budget reconciliation, whether budget reconciliation applies or not. If that happens, this could become a real law.