kane_magus | "Where ICE Came From And Why It Needs To Be Abolished

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"Hi. Today we're looking at U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency that Donald Trump is using to do his Mass Deportations Now. We look at where they came from, why they're allowed to wear masks, and the movement to stop them from taking over American cities."

A few choice quotes:

"The only gang causing trouble is ICE."

"Kids, the thing you gotta know about post-9/11 America is that almost everyone lost their entire goddamn minds. According to polls, a slim majority of Americans thought it was necessary for some civil liberties to be ceded in order to defeat terrorists. Xenophobia and racism skyrocketed, specifically on the Right. So, we did a Patriot Act, which allowed law enforcement to collect our records and search our homes without notification, so long as they could prove that they 'thought' we were doing a terrorism. Which, at the time, simply meant that you looked Arab or Asian."

"What is ICE? It's just America, bro. It's the institutions we've given unchecked power to over the decades, the end result of the Patriot Act and our broken law enforcement system."

"It seems pretty bad if the system we're all used to is built on the gradual dismantling to civil liberties, because that's the thing: we're used to it. If Trump has any positive talents, it's his ability to make evident that which was already there. He is so grotesque and loud in his terrible goals that, in pushing the limits of his power, he's exposing the seams that everyone ignored. He's the guy who makes the mall security guards realize that, technically, there's no rule against skinny-dipping in the fountain. This is all to say that Trump and ICE are quite horrifyingly working in tandem with a system that most Americans consider functional."

I honestly had never heard of ICE, even though it had existed since the time of Dubya, before Trump started using it as his own personal Gestapo, back during his first """""administration,""""" and I wish I had never heard of it at all (by that I mean I wish it didn't exist at all) now that he's quadrupling down on that Gestapo shit. Oh, and good on Tim Walz, the guy who should be Vice President right now, for saying pretty much the same thing. I didn't know about that until I did a certain Google search just now. He's not wrong, and he's not the only one saying it. ICE == Gestapo. And if the Department of Homeland Security find the comparison "sickening," then fuck them, too. DHS can go piss up a rope.

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump, as usual, and to hell with that Todd asshole, too.

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It's not a new problem, nor are the methods and offenses new. ICE has always been the American Gestapo. What's changed is that now they feel free to operate openly and don't even have to pretend to be careful about targeting only immigrants and refugees not American citizens. Their job is to get rid of brown people and they are eager to do that. The question now is whether enough people will resist the abuse, boundary violations, torture, and lawbreaking -- or not.

Yeah, the Gestapo was the Secret Police, after all. Geheime Staatspolizei, Secret State Police.

Trump just sucks at keeping things secret, which as the video pointed out, is kind of a good thing, since his bull-in-the-china-shop method of "leading" is getting a spotlight shined on all the terrible stuff that they're all doing brazenly and without shame now, when before they were somewhat better at hiding it, and at least used to kind of pretend to be ashamed of it (or at least ashamed that they got caught at it).

And yeah, I hope enough people see it now, and, more importantly, see it for the horror that it really is, rather than just cheering it on or whatever, that we can get it changed or stopped entirely.

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