AMERICAN FASCISM

Why Donald Trump Should Care About an Arrest in the Philippines

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte discovers that even immunity can’t prevent accountability

Donald Trump made his first prominent political arrest on Saturday night, one of those dark-of-the-night things that many of us warned would happen, an illegal detainment based on a man’s politics.

Mahmoud Khalil, a noisy Palestinian eager to let everyone know that people who live in Gaza are people too, a man tired of seeing the faces of children splattered against the rubble of buildings, was detained by Homeland Security in an ominous warning to the rest of us, including folks like me who write dissident essays on platforms like Medium and Substack.

Khalil, green card in hand, was snatched from his home in New York City and thrown into a detention facility in Louisiana.

And so it begins.

Khalil’s crime? The Malevolence of Mar-a-Lago tells you via one of his posts on True Sociopath:

“This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the…