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Jason has released his app, Crucial Tracks, which is a web app for journaling about music. The app is an add-on to his Crucial Tracks blog. I have signed up to create my own profile and RSS feed that you can subscribe to, or see my entries on my micro.blog or Bluesky profiles.#
If citizens endorse the idea that people named by authorities as "criminals" or "terrorists" have no right to due process, then they are accepting that they themselves have no right to due process. It is due process, and due process alone, that allows you to demonstrate that you are a citizen. Without it, the masked men in the black vans can simply claim that you are a foreign terrorist and disappear you. -- Tim Snyder
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Another way to say the above is, innocent until proven guilty. It is the obligation of the state to prove a person's guilt, not the obligation of a person to prove their innocence, and this applies to citizens and non-citizens.#

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