If you read anything this week, go read this piece by Amanda Marcotte in Salon about the not at all pitiable victim-complex that way too many of these ICE goons carry around with them in the field as they are hunting down their human prey.
It's creepy and disgusting and it gets right to the heart of the moral cowardice of these dickheads. I also have to think that a sizable percentage of these young, primarily white males applying for these ICE bounty hunter positions are psychologically damaged people to begin with. I mean you almost have to be a bit fucked in the head to want to be in a job where you are following orders to tear children apart from parents, mothers and fathers from their families, and commit wanton violence against others. Having no soul or sense of morality will serve them well when it comes time for them to employ violence to hurt people.
Link: ICE is not the victim - Salon.com
"Border czar Tom Homan claims that agents need to wear masks because they don’t want to be “doxxed on social media” — in other words, have their identity known to the people they’re supposedly serving. Videos of ICE arrests spread rapidly on social media, showing that the “criminals and predators” are instead unarmed health care workers, day care workers tending small children and a 71-year-old citizen accused of pushing an agent. Only the weakest people on earth could be afraid of these arrestees, but ICE agents come at them in huge numbers, like they’re trying to take down an NFL player hopped up on PCP. The agency’s pity party has grown so ridiculous that Fox News ran multiple outraged segments because a Boston-area church displayed an anti-ICE nativity scene. One host, Harris Faulkner, insisted that merely posting an anti-ICE sign at a church is “cruel rhetoric” that “helps to endanger” the “agents on the ground.”
Heaven forbid any of these people stub a toe. We’ll never stop hearing about how it was like their entire leg was amputated.
Needless to say, the true courage on display in this country is plenty visible in the video of Good’s killing. Not from the cowardly ICE agents that swarmed her car and shot at her as she appears to be driving away. But from the 37-year-old Good, her wife and the other ordinary citizens in the video who are yelling “shame” and standing up to masked, armed ICE agents in their streets. Like so many of us, Good could have stayed tucked safely away in her house, looking the other way while a bunch of hastily hired wannabe warriors terrorized her neighbors. But while much needs to be learned about what happened, it appears that Good died doing what so many other ordinary Americans have in recent months: standing up to the bullies that Trump unleashed on their communities.
The ICE victim complex goes deep. As Good’s killing showed, it’s deadly. By relentlessly and falsely portraying agents as a beleaguered group terrorized by day care workers, nativity scenes and hotel employees, MAGA has preemptively justified violence against unarmed civilians as an act of self-defense. Barely minutes after her death, a tidal wave of disinformation painting ICE as the real victims came pouring out of the Trump administration and their legions of self-appointed propagandists."
There is a growing anger in this country toward this out of control agency and it has fucking nothing to do with immigration. It has everything to do with the Gestapo tactics of a bunch of bitter, roid-raging, trigger-happy, right wing assholes terrorizing the people of this country in their communities - and if these violent incidents continue to escalate with these masked goons, shit is going to get real ugly pretty quick from coast to coast.
---TFG
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