cawacko
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This thread has really turned into something. I’ll address the personal part second.This is not incompetence. ICE agents specifically hide their identities, and destroy records to avoid being punished for their crimes. They are now claiming to have destroyed all the records of who they have arrested. They have held some American citizens for months without any access to the outside world. No one knows who they have deported to foreign hellhole prisons.
This will not get called out. It is the new normal.
Germany had courts, a free press, and elections that called out bad actions and held people accountable. It took a decade of actions to undermine all that, because Germany's liberal democracy was still new. It would take longer for us.
What disturbs me is that you seem fine with the baby steps of undermining it all. As long as we are not at the end of the journey, you are fine with us being at the beginning of the journey. The problem with that is once we lose all the protections of our freedoms, there is no way to protect our freedoms.
American citizens in Chicago had hand grenades thrown into their homes. ICE then arrested them without warrants, or any evidence of a crime. They were illegally held for days without contact with the outside world. When they finally got to court, ICE claims they lost all the records of who was involved with the raid.
But the people involved were Black, so I suppose it is OK with you. Whites are not being attacked.
You’re way off base. Nothing I’ve said excuses abuse or racism.
In America we have courts, a press, and elections that still function and keep us from becoming anything close to a totalitarian state. America is not Nazi Germany.
Now for the personal part. Nothing quite like a smug white liberal. When all else fails, call someone a racist. You don’t have a clue about me, Walt. Come out to Oakland, California, where I grew up. See where I went to school and who I hung out with. See who I still hang out with today.
But you don’t know any better, so it’s all good. You get your echo chamber likes, which is what matters.