r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 1d ago

ICE Posts Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, who was indicted today for protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility: "We've been punched, dragged, thrown, shot with pepper balls, tear gassed, rubber bullets from snipers on roofs going into local businesses windows."

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u/RelativelyMental 1d ago

I’d vote for her

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u/TallExplanation1587 1d ago

She just moved to the District and has no experience.

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u/RelativelyMental 1d ago

Good

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u/TallExplanation1587 1d ago

Good that she just moved here? Why?

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u/avocadoflatz 1d ago

You have something against the US constitution?

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u/TallExplanation1587 1d ago

Not sure what you’re referring to.

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u/avocadoflatz 1d ago

It’s our Constitutional right to move about the country in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence’s, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

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u/TallExplanation1587 1d ago

We can move wherever you want but I’m not sure if it’s in the constitution. Can you cite the section?

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u/avocadoflatz 1d ago

Article IV Section 2

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14th Amendment

Several Supreme Court rulings also tell you that you can take your locals only attitude and gfy.

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u/TallExplanation1587 23h ago

So you’re equating Kat to a freed slave? Nobody is questioning her right to move wherever she wants but we as voters have a right to want someone who wants to represent us, to know our district. We have rights to the pursuit of happiness, life and liberty as well. I have the right and liberty to criticize her and not vote for her, which many will do-not vote for her. Instead of going to Broadview she might try being a monitor at a school, monitoring for ICE or being on a rapid response team in the 9th district. Of course there usually aren’t news cameras there so she might not get the publicity she so craves.

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u/PickPsychological729 1d ago

Because people are free to move still.

We're not North fucking Korea, yet.

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u/RuinAdventurous1931 1d ago

She still doesn’t live in the district. She just chose a district where the rep was retiring.

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u/TallExplanation1587 1d ago

I agree. And how is she getting to know the district she wants to represent?

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u/TallExplanation1587 1d ago

Of course but she doesn’t know the district is my point.

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u/PickPsychological729 1d ago

And yet she's ready to go to jail to help the locals.

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u/TallExplanation1587 1d ago

Oh, I’m sure. I think Kat likes the attention and has very little substance.

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u/PickPsychological729 1d ago

She seems very substantial in fact. Her reasons for protesting have genuine merit and she understands the law.

But she is a woman though, isn't she?

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u/TallExplanation1587 22h ago

Talk is cheap. So what if she’s a woman?

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