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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 75 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

What alarmed Nicholas Reppucci, head of the Charlottesville Office of the Public Defender, is that the enforcers called in to detain the two men in the city Tuesday morning were wearing plain clothes and did not display badges or arrest warrants.

Presumably, the courthouse is filled with cops and others with arrest authority, so why did they allow two men in plainclothes without badges or warrants leave with two people?

If the DOGE pirates had been gunned down in the first lobby the invaded, it would have ended there, or at least gone down a different path.

We should not be normalizing this behavior, and setting precedents. Without a badge, you will not be listened to, and you will leave the building immediately. Without a warrant, you will not be putting your hands on any person. If you attempt to bypass either requirement, you will be arrested. And if you attempt to do enforce your demands by force, you will be shot.

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 9 hours ago

On the plus side, if anybody reading this ever has reason to think that they might need to go into a police station and remove someone being held there, apparently if you and a friend or two look sufficiently the part, you can just walk in, in plainclothes, and claim to be Homeland Security, and just... take a dude and leave.

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's probably the gesta- I mean ICE

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 41 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

It's horrifying to see so many incidents of kidnapping in courtrooms. I can't imagine a more blatant and clear example of subversion of the legal judicial process.

There would be no reason to remove them from a courtroom if you believed the court would come to the same conclusions they have. So the logical explanation is that they know that what they're doing illegal and that these people they're snatching haven't actually done anything wrong. It's shameful that we've allowed this to happen in our country and frankly, it's embarrassing that this is what the once great USA has stooped to.

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[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 62 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Whatever happened to the Fourth Amendment? If they're not even bothering to uphold the Constitution in a courthouse you guys are well and truly fucked.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The constitution has not existed since 911. I am not sure why people still believe in it. Even Santa Claus is more plausible to exist.

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

well that's a load of shit

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

https://www.aclu.org/documents/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception

The magical 100 mile "Nah constitution don't really work here" zone that also, crazily enough, includes 2/3 of the population.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 20 points 14 hours ago

I’m pretty sure Homeland Security was created with the sole intent of subverting the constitution from it's inception.

[–] iamnotme@feddit.uk 27 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Definitely not the sort of thing a fascist would do. Lefty liberals are Larping

[–] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago
[–] boughtmysoul@lemmy.world 55 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Is this exactly the kind of stuff 2A was supposed to have solved? What were the half a billion guns for?

[–] boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world 61 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

A good portion of the 2A fetishists in this country love jackbooted authoritarianism as long as it's aimed at the correct demographic.

They love the fantasy of being a plucky revolutionary, but in reality they are the ones helping the boot come down.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

its called ammosexuals,people who fetishized and fantasize about a scenario where they shoot people, any excuse will do. i seen a video of a poc right winger, "climaxing" over the thought of shooting someone in an unlikely scenario. it was the cringiest thing.

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[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 29 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Guns are for the tyranny of green energy and gay marriage. This is what they voted for.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Guns are for Drag Queen Story Hour and school schoolings

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