Yeah, if I'd had no knowing contact with elements of the government of China, I'd take that bet every day of the week and twice on Sundays. I don't even think it'd get to a jury.

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nixon_why69 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Ok, that covers you, but there are 100M party members, any Chinese-descended or Chinese-married person in the US probably has a connection to a party member.

"Have you, now or in the past, had contact with a member of Chinese Communist Party?" sounds really scary compared to "Is your uncle a mid-tier director at Huawei?" even though they're describing the same fact.

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tptacek 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If you want to formulate a bank-shot argument about how this preys on people of Chinese ancestry, I'm fine with that. All I'm here to say is that you can't plausibly be charged with a FARA violation simply for arguing or protesting for a policy position that China happens to want you to take; the DOJ bears the burden of proving that you knew you were coordinating with China, directly, and, if it's a felony, willfully (that, is, voluntarily, deliberately, with a purpose to break the law).

Read Klippenstein's piece again. Does he want you to know this?

	▲	nixon_why69 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You can't plausibly be arrested by ICE if you're in the US legally, in theory, but look where we are. I'm afraid that a paranoid, worst-case, bad faith assumption isn't something we can handwave away anymore.