Decade-old probe found immigration agents stepped in front of cars to justify shootingImmigration agents were faulted more than a decade ago for tactics that have fallen under intense scrutiny in the wake of a fatal shooting of a motorist in Minneapolis.
https://www.rawstory.com/border-patrol-shooting-2674878723/
US Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at ThemAn internal review of the US Border Patrol raises serious questions about the agency’s use-of-force policy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/us-border-agents-intentionally-stepped-front-moving-vehicles-justify-shooting-them/
Buddy, the only reason she’s not a full time housewife right now is because you lefties are hateful, violent people willing to shoot a guy for saying things you don’t like.
"History doesn't repeat itself... But it rhymes."
(often ascribed to Mark Twain, but origin not known)
What's happening in the USA today is not only rhyming, but following the same old meter as well... so I'll just call it Naziism or fascism, or authoritarian autocracy or totalitarianism or whatever, as best seems to fit at the moment.
Right now I don't care; it doesn't matter -- the fight is on, and the arguments are mostly fomented by people trying to distract us from the ugly truth -- I'll leave academic debates over the most precisely correct label as an exercise for political scientists and historians, once the fighting is finally over.
Quibble: ICE agents are not Law Enforcement Officers.
ICE agents are Immigration Enforcement Officers -- with much more limited authority than actual law enforcement personnel.
That's why they wear vests with "POLICE" emblazoned on them -- to imply law enforcement authority that they don't actually have.
Some of the mice have convinced themselves that they can save themselves by dressing in cat's clothing, meowing like cats, and joining the hunt for other mice -- even grab themselves some fine cheese.
These mice will eventually discover that the cats weren't fooled, but merely exploited their shortsightedness and naivete. When their own turn comes to face the claws, the mice will think it most unfair -- but it won't help them.
NEARLY ALL Ice protestors are white women (like 80%+), someone pointed out that ICE is considerably more “diverse” than the protestors.
You seem to have missed the blindingly obvious point. The protesters being mostly white, and mostly white women, isn't an accident -- it's the inevitable consequence of and response to ICE, CBP, and DHS strategy, tactics and actions.
Of course, ICE would love for the protesters to be mostly non-white people and immigrants -- it makes life so much easier for the cats, if the mice can be persuaded to obligingly come right to them.
So protesters across the USA have quite explicitly agreed that non-white protesters are at vastly greater risk of being illegally assaulted &/or arrested &/or kidnapped (&/or even murdered) by ICE. After all, the indiscriminate targeting of non-whites is precisely why ICE is there in the first place. It would be profoundly stupid and counter-productive to make ICE's job easier that way. It would be utterly stupid and counter-productive to make ICE's job easier that way.
So white people are accepting responsibility for the situation, and the responsibility and risks inherent in actually confronting ICE's blatantly illegal spree, because white people simply don't face the degree of risk that anyone "of color", regardless of actual legal status, does (such as say... native Americans, for example).
White woman are in the front ranks of anti-ICE protest because they are committed to the classic, democratic and constitutional American principles (not to mention simple humanity) and thus are openly doing what they can to shield their non-white friends and neighbors from the ongoing fascist "vermin hunt".
Those women are a clear example of how ordinary Americans are still committed to saving the parts of America that actually made America great, rather than let American democracy be kicked aside for some hollow, oligarchic, religious fundamentalist, fascist imitation -- they're proof that despite everything, and despite appearances, the American ideal isn't quite dead yet.
Is there some under-appreciated, readable and accessible, potential new best-seller out there -- one based on sound data, properly evaluated and reflecting the perspective from relevant expertise -- that deserves to be promoted as a counter-narrative debunking of Haidt's Anxious Generation and similar social-media focused panic mongering?
It's been almost two years since Anxious Generation came out -- a proper popular debunking seems overdue...
"They hit my fist with their face."
"They stuck their neck between the ground and my knee."
"They didn't fall down the first time I shoved them."
"They scratched my front bumper with the side of their car -- repeatedly."
"They bumped the rear of my vehicle with their vehicle when I brake-checked them."
"They demanded to see a proper, signed, judicial warrant."
"They were videoing our illegal actions."
The Man Who Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Standing in Front of Cars
https://hejon07.substack.com/p/the-man-who-learned-to-stop-worrying
Decade-old probe found immigration agents stepped in front of cars to justify shooting
https://www.rawstory.com/border-patrol-shooting-2674878723/
US Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at Them
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/us-border-agents-intentionally-stepped-front-moving-vehicles-justify-shooting-them/
Note also that Ross himself was a CBP agent of some years standing when this investigation was performed and the report written -- therefore he knows better, and did it anyways.
If the doctors even suspected internal bleeding, Ross would not have been allowed to leave the hospital.
So it's a lie. A very clumsy lie, one that they didn't even try to trot out until later and it became clear that the general public, with access to several videos contradicting the official narrative, simply wasn't buying official line. So they flailed about for something to buttress the official narrative, and decided an "invisible injury" would fit the bill and save their convenient little faerie tale -- too bad the medical community is saying it just doesn't work that way.
Every doctor I've heard from says that even a plausible possibility of internal bleeding, would have been an automatic 24 hour stay at the hospital for close monitoring and observation.
The whole "internal bleeding" story was just a clumsy lie to try to buttress a false narrative that anyone who bothers to check out the videos simply isn't going to believe anyways.
Additionally, people being struck by moving vehicles don't stay firmly on their feet and fire accurate pistol shots within a fraction of a second of being struck.
I swear, cultists don't even try to exercise critical thinking ability.
No -- Ross did not have internal bleeding.
We know this because (as many doctors have pointed out) if he had internal bleeding, or even evidence that it was a significant possibility, he would have been kept in the hospital at least over-night for close observation and treatment.
So that was just yet another clumsy lie from Trump administration mouthpieces.
Apropos nothing at all...
When Ellison went on his little buying spree, I saw a number of political commentators on YouTube and social media, who noted that although they had several times the audience that Bari Weis's little media enterprises had, somehow no one ever offered to buy their boutique operation for 150 million dollars...
Ross had already transferred his phone to his other hand while crossing in front of the vehicle and already had his hand on his pistol before the car started forward.
This is backwards: You're effectively arguing that those sites which do exercise editorial control shouldn't be held responsible for the content.
Except SCOTUS -- they can just say "No."
Stepping in front of vehicles (on purpose)
Decade-old probe found immigration agents stepped in front of cars to justify shooting Immigration agents were faulted more than a decade ago for tactics that have fallen under intense scrutiny in the wake of a fatal shooting of a motorist in Minneapolis. https://www.rawstory.com/border-patrol-shooting-2674878723/ US Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at Them An internal review of the US Border Patrol raises serious questions about the agency’s use-of-force policy. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/us-border-agents-intentionally-stepped-front-moving-vehicles-justify-shooting-them/
Who needs judges anyways? WE decide what the law is !!! (L'etat, c'est nous. Louis XIV would approve.)
You do know that writing down a "viewpoint" in actual words, doesn't magically turn that viewpoint into reality, right?
Same rhyme, same meter
"Immigration enforcement" is not "law enforcement"
Quibble: ICE agents are not Law Enforcement Officers. ICE agents are Immigration Enforcement Officers -- with much more limited authority than actual law enforcement personnel. That's why they wear vests with "POLICE" emblazoned on them -- to imply law enforcement authority that they don't actually have.
Cats and mice: footnote
Some of the mice have convinced themselves that they can save themselves by dressing in cat's clothing, meowing like cats, and joining the hunt for other mice -- even grab themselves some fine cheese. These mice will eventually discover that the cats weren't fooled, but merely exploited their shortsightedness and naivete. When their own turn comes to face the claws, the mice will think it most unfair -- but it won't help them.
Cats and mice
I'll theck those out, too. Thanks.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out.
Looking for a solid counter-narrative/moral-panic debunking book for friends and relatives
Is there some under-appreciated, readable and accessible, potential new best-seller out there -- one based on sound data, properly evaluated and reflecting the perspective from relevant expertise -- that deserves to be promoted as a counter-narrative debunking of Haidt's Anxious Generation and similar social-media focused panic mongering? It's been almost two years since Anxious Generation came out -- a proper popular debunking seems overdue...
Some examples of how ICE commonly defines "assault" in official reports (listing not complete):
"They hit my fist with their face." "They stuck their neck between the ground and my knee." "They didn't fall down the first time I shoved them." "They scratched my front bumper with the side of their car -- repeatedly." "They bumped the rear of my vehicle with their vehicle when I brake-checked them." "They demanded to see a proper, signed, judicial warrant." "They were videoing our illegal actions."
Against protocols -- but known practice anyways
The Man Who Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Standing in Front of Cars https://hejon07.substack.com/p/the-man-who-learned-to-stop-worrying Decade-old probe found immigration agents stepped in front of cars to justify shooting https://www.rawstory.com/border-patrol-shooting-2674878723/ US Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at Them https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/us-border-agents-intentionally-stepped-front-moving-vehicles-justify-shooting-them/ Note also that Ross himself was a CBP agent of some years standing when this investigation was performed and the report written -- therefore he knows better, and did it anyways.
If the doctors even suspected internal bleeding, Ross would not have been allowed to leave the hospital. So it's a lie. A very clumsy lie, one that they didn't even try to trot out until later and it became clear that the general public, with access to several videos contradicting the official narrative, simply wasn't buying official line. So they flailed about for something to buttress the official narrative, and decided an "invisible injury" would fit the bill and save their convenient little faerie tale -- too bad the medical community is saying it just doesn't work that way.
Every doctor I've heard from says that even a plausible possibility of internal bleeding, would have been an automatic 24 hour stay at the hospital for close monitoring and observation. The whole "internal bleeding" story was just a clumsy lie to try to buttress a false narrative that anyone who bothers to check out the videos simply isn't going to believe anyways. Additionally, people being struck by moving vehicles don't stay firmly on their feet and fire accurate pistol shots within a fraction of a second of being struck. I swear, cultists don't even try to exercise critical thinking ability.
No -- Ross did not have internal bleeding. We know this because (as many doctors have pointed out) if he had internal bleeding, or even evidence that it was a significant possibility, he would have been kept in the hospital at least over-night for close observation and treatment. So that was just yet another clumsy lie from Trump administration mouthpieces.
Apropos nothing at all... When Ellison went on his little buying spree, I saw a number of political commentators on YouTube and social media, who noted that although they had several times the audience that Bari Weis's little media enterprises had, somehow no one ever offered to buy their boutique operation for 150 million dollars...
Ross had already transferred his phone to his other hand while crossing in front of the vehicle and already had his hand on his pistol before the car started forward.