Under the order, private businesses can choose to display signage indicating that ICE cannot enter without a warrant—thereby designating “their property as part of a city-wide network of community spaces that stand together in affirming the safety, dignity, and belonging of all of our residents,” the mayor said.
Johnson touted the order for building “a broad civic shield that limits the reach of harmful enforcement practices. It strengthens neighborhood solidarity and it reaffirms Chicago’s role as a welcoming city.”
Personally? I got a little older, developed my sense of empathy more and stopped associating with libertarians.
I got older, developed more empathy but especially during these times, I have more and more found myself drawn to civil libertarianism. I don’t want government overreach regardless of who’s in charge. The people (not corporations) are supposed to control the government, not be controlled by the government.
Government involvement in people’s personal lives should be minimized when possible while keeping in mind that the entire point of having a government is supposed to be to protect and benefit the people. Except, for some dumb fucking reason, we let the supreme court decide that corporations are people too.
I think if we have any chance of surviving, we have to make overturning Citizens United a nonpartisan issue (which it really should be and easily could be if all the propaganda and disinformation around it was removed).
T.L.D.R.:Government regulations should protect and serve people not control them. A government controlled by the people (bc surprise, people are not corporations) should regulate corporations and technology, not the other way around. I do not buy that human focused (as in protections for the people, their rights and their privacy) regulations placed on corporations and technology are “inhibiting progress” any more than I would believe somebody telling me we need to start cutting brake lines in all vehicles bc they “inhibit speed.”