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Andrea J's avatar

I am vigilent regarding my neighbors, making sure they and their children are safe. I printed out the ICE info cards for them and instructed them NOT to open their doors, to ask to see a warrent signed by a judge, not ICE personnel. If ICE shows up on the block I am prepared with a bullhorn to inform and disrupt. I'm an elderly widow but I'm riled up and doing what I can.

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Ghost Of WU's avatar

Bravo! I promise to make a scene and record every second. Be a disrupter and stand in their way in general. Take a white lady off the street.. I have recording devices.

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Wayne Shaw's avatar

Already have my phone ready at one particular, strategic location. The bullhorn is another great idea.

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Nancy's avatar

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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Ecaterina DeBoer's avatar

This is disgusting. We all need to stand up, especially if you are white and a citizen (no offense intended-am I one myself). Find an event near you and go march, protest, make it loud, make it clear, speak to local media, speak up for democracy, stay safe and peaceful, but our strength is in numbers. There are many of us and the louder/prouder we stand the more impact we are making.

Next big event is April 5, Hands Off Our Democracy: find an event near you and join it. For the love of your country, for the love of democracy, for the love of your children.

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OopsICrappedMyDiaper's avatar

fuck that.

DOXX "ice".

Then find them and make them not want to show up to work again.

Also please quit calling them "ice", as if they were some gauche 1990s hiphop artists.

Call them by their rightful name: Einsatzgruppen.

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Ron McKenzie's avatar

Perhaps, a better name is Geheime Staatspolizei, or Gestapo. Translation: secret state police.

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OopsICrappedMyDiaper's avatar

Nor arm nor face nor any other part

Belonging to a man. O be some other name.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet

😂😂😂😂💁💁💁

Act 1: Scene 1:

La Migra cornered in PEOC with their erstwhile masters.

One by one the masters put pistols to their heads or chomp vials of cyanide.

One ICE sprays and prays his last magazine down the hall.

At which point

Harry the King shouts

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;

Or close the wall up with our [yankee] dead.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man

As modest stillness and humility:

But when the blast of war blows in our ears,

Then imitate the action of the tiger;

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,

Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;

Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;

Let pry through the portage of the head

Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it

As fearfully as doth a galled rock

O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,

Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.

Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,

Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit

To his full height. On, on, you noblest [Resistance]

Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!

Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,

Have in these parts from morn till even fought

And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:

Dishonour not your mothers; now attest

That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.

Be copy now to men of grosser blood,

And teach them how to war.

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Don Glass's avatar

This can not happen !

This is Hitler in the White House

This is a call to arms for all citizens that care enough to stand up and fight

This should happen in America

Rf

Never Again

We are all ready for a leader

Your Army is ready and waiting

This is an army of righteous citizens, ready to take back our country

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Ghost Of WU's avatar

I stand with you. I put my body in harms way for my fellow Americans. We are the army of citizens

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OopsICrappedMyDiaper's avatar

leader?....

that kind of thinking got us to this juncture.

Fucking lead yourself.

smh

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Randi's avatar

Good point: we all have to become leaders!

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Wayne Shaw's avatar

Are you following your own advice?

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OopsICrappedMyDiaper's avatar

Id send u pics of my Barrett but i cant post pics here.

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Don Glass's avatar

Do the microchips that are used to identify lost pets have a human counterpart?

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Natasha Young's avatar

If they are just taking them away, they are taking them to an Interment camp.

This is so horrific

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Martha HB's avatar

And spineless Republicans are letting Trump do it

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John Brown's avatar

Spineless Democrats too

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Ghost Of WU's avatar

Today as I sit eating funnel cake with my kids outside at my local outlet mall. A loud speaker plays a local music station.A commercial comes on and my ears perk up when I hear, “This is Christi Noem (The puppy killer?).. if you are in this country illegally we will find you.” She says, “You will not be able to hide, we are active looking for you and won’t stop, we welcome legal residents but if you aren’t.. beware.”

I looked around and thought this is probably how it feels in North Korea.. this shit is sick. I promise not to let anyone be disappeared in front of me and I will take pictures so we can hold these fake agents accountable. Fuck Tom Homan, Fuck Pam Bondi, Fuck Christi Noem, eat a hamburger puppy killer.

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Randi's avatar

But they aren't just targeting people who are in this country illegally. Rumeysa Ozturk is proof of that.

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Ghost Of WU's avatar

Absolutely; Family men with kids and here legally. Due Process for All. This is beyond reprehensible. It’s criminal.

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John Brown's avatar

Need to know that radio station

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Ghost Of WU's avatar

Not a lot of people know who John Brown was. But I do. No Quarter, my brother.

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Ghost Of WU's avatar

I wish I had got the radio station it was on but here is the exact message they played it’s on the DHS website. It’s exact.

https://www.dhs.gov/medialibrary/assets/video/58918

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Rhonda L. S. Ovist's avatar

As a 63 year old woman who has never heard of law enforcement in the US having the right to accost, Handcuff and drag a person away to an unmarked van by masked people without a badge or any identification or warrant. I would assume that all of this is not only unconstitutional, but that anyone experiencing or witnessing it owe these unidentifiable masked kidnappers any respect or privilege.

My question is, as a 63 yr old White American, when I attack the masked people attempting to drag someone away, bc to me this is an illegal violent act that must be stopped, on what grounds could they object to such a response.

Not only do I live in a country where I have never been legally required to carry my personal ID or “papers” with me wherever I go, in case some demands to see proof that I have a right to be in America, I also live in a Nation where we don’t allow law enforcement to run around grabbing people without a warrant or due process. Given that, why the hell should anyone stand by and do nothing. Given the fact that some people are pretending to be ICE or police, I would say it’s perfectly reasonable for bystanders to act with intense prejudice against anyone trying to abduct someone on street.

I doubt MAGA want ICE to arrest citizens - at least not white citizens; that could cause a major backlash with their supporters.

Personally, I would think that any law enforcement person would know how dangerous it is to engage in such behavior - thanks to Republicans who have been behind the ending of gun regulations in many states, I would think there are far more people out there carrying concealed weapons legally. Wouldn’t these people with guns have a good reason to believe that shooting would-be masked abductor is appropriate?

We need guidance from a Federal Judge on how protected good Samaritan’s would be if they stepped in to stop a kidnapping by masked men.

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Rhonda L. S. Ovist's avatar

One more point - I would recommend that any permanent residency green card holders or student visa holders who has or may have their visas cancelled by our Sec of State Rubio

1) never go outside except when surrounded by friends as protectors

2) change your schedule and move around between friends houses

3) if you can find out if out whether or not your visa has been canceled, and are now being hunted by ICE, have a lawyer on speed dial, and if possible, given what we are seeing, begin a lawsuit immediately, based on the arbitrary basis of the decision to cancel your green card or visa, and any other charges that may be appropriate.

American citizens must continue to speak out and against what is the arbitrary abuse of power by the President and MAGA - one of the things about law, is it’s not supposed to be arbitrary applied or decided.

The British colonist of America once fought a Revolutionary war against England because of the arbitrary abuse of power of the monarch and Parliament. Let’s end this nonesense before the situation gets that bad again.

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Michele Artascos's avatar

Maybe time to start unmasking the ICE agents doing this? Why do they wear masks like hoodlums if they are so proud of what they are doing? Are they worried about being ostracised if they are unmasked? This tells me they know this is wrong.

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Loki Excelsior Smith's avatar

Well fucking said. I'm feeling your voice and pacing—on point. I've been writing about the American Gulag myself, and ICE as its warhound, both in essay and as some kind of fictional backdrop. See below.

“ICE, as the Klown Kar Kabal’s newly minted squad, is letting it be known just how dangerous, lethal, and nonplussed by human rights it really is. It’s an ugly, despicable display of raw power.”

https://lokiexcelsiorsmith.substack.com/p/american-gulag-4-raging-bull-in-a?r=fd4u4

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OopsICrappedMyDiaper's avatar

why arent the judges ordering federal marshals or fbi to enforce their decrees?

Why arent citizens smashing, looting, burning and pillaging ice facilities?

no ice, doge, or any other under orders from Maga should be able to go anywhere without a serious beatdown.

Not to the grocery store.not tothe park.

not to the bus stop.

Theyre shameful prigs and by no means eligible for inclusion in polite society.

Make them unwelcome.

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Ken Sheetz's avatar

Infuriating. Waiting until 2026 dies not work.

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Maria Tambien's avatar

This is some scary shit. This Gestapo administration knows no boundaries. Disappearances happen in China, Iran and Russia. We are entering a dangerous time my friends. Stay safe.

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Joe English's avatar

Siembra NC conducts many trainings for both the NC Latino population and volunteers in NC communities to help protect residents. And to ensure their rights as best as possible. These disappearences cross those lines, but the connection/community is still critical. Here is their website to learn more and contact them to get involved:

https://www.siembranc.org/

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King' R's avatar

"The whole system is the crime!"

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Mary's avatar

My opinion. This is North Korea and Russia. The orange turd said outright (and this can be researched) to his magrat minions how much he admired kim jong un for the way he ruled north korea with an iron fist. If orange excrement can do this in america why not jail him immediately until these innocent people are released. Is America going to allow this to happen? I ask you.

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Renee Schnell-Smith's avatar

How much of it will they get away with before there is a revolt?

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