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Congress Passes Bill In 15 Minutes To Revoke Americans' Passports Without Due Process
The “war on terror” is a status quo fraud perpetuated by the oligarch-controlled mainstream media and authoritarian members of Congress as a way to systematically strip the American public of its freedom and civil rights in the name of fighting an outside enemy. This tried and true tactic has been used by statists throughout history, and history is indeed repeating itself here in the “land of the free.”
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What happens if your passport is revoked? What does this do that adding the individual to the No Fly list doesn't do? The only thing I can think of is that by revoking a passport may be sent out to various allies, where the No Fly list is mostly internal. It may, also, involve confiscation of your passport if you try to enter the country, but I don't see anything to support that.
In any case, the ability to do voice votes I find rather troubling. We have no real way of knowing who voted for this, other than (presumably), the sponsors for the bill. It seems trivial to at least have each person mark down their vote in a voice vote to be tallied up later. As long as they aren't wildly off, that would work reasonably well.