This is how it begins, but this isn't how it ends.
ICE is the American Gestapo. Everyone in the United States is on the menu.
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2025
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This one is a quantifiable rights violation. Sue. Sue. Sue.
Police Chief Brian O’Hara called it embarrassing to the law enforcement profession that the agents were wearing vests that said ‘POLICE.’
So start arresting them for impersonating officers or something.
“Freeze!”
“No u”
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Oo, my popcorn is ready!
Oh man, stop, I can only get so erect.
You cant spell police without ice
or lice
Or pole
Sue them. And be sure to sue the specific agents that did this to you.
It’ll never happen.
Yeah, make sure to sue the masked federal agents that are immune from prosecution by name... You know the goons who hide their identity and the us legal system has defended.
In a lawsuit, you should be able to unmask the identities of the people who arrested you. That used to work anyway. Who knows if it would work in the current climate, but I think it’s still important to at least try.
A country where the people aren't secure from random acts of violence by their government isn't a country at all.
There are less than 100 countries in the world.
Actually, probably less than 50.
(Its not just the US, thing are quite fucked around the world)
I guess that means we've never been a country then
The awesome part is, they could do this again tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, forever, because no court or congress has made it clear that they can't endlessly harass citizens
SCOTUS said it was perfectly fine for ICE to use their racism to do things like this.
Roberts legacy will be that he presided over the court that spurred constitutional reform. He will be a villain of history.
The entire article reads like a comedy... Of errors. The ICE agents didn't know what they were doing. Didn't know where to go. Didn't have functioning equipment. Didn't know how to use said equipment. Couldn't follow basic instructions (navigation).
Forget the innocent civilian who was pointlessly harassed and detained for a moment: They are clearly wasting US tax dollars, driving around aimlessly, without proper training, accomplishing absolutely nothing.
It is astonishingly clear that ICE is incapable of doing the most basic functions of their job. Better to not even have immigration enforcement at all than this pointless waste of government resources.
This is the clearest demonstration yet that Republicans are completely incapable of governing efficiently. Or even governing at all! If they can't even implement their own Nazi/racist ideals properly, what makes you think they can do something as complicated as balancing the budget or managing a war?
They can't even get villaining right!
I know this is a little off topic but I'm tired of the whole "Nazis were well organized and ran things like a well oiled machine" trope because it's just fantasy.
There were a ton of rather inept people in office, plenty of idiots running amock and the military structure was a joke where people who had no business playing commander got to make life and death decisions.
Like I really encourage anyone to just do some more reading on how the whole government and military was organized and the cascade of errors that came about because of it. There is a reason the third Reich lasted only 12 years and it's not just because they made bad decisions in the lead up to and during world war 2.
'"only" 12 years' just made me super depressed.
Yeah it's a bummer. History is full of shitty stuff, too much of it is the same as now. Also if you study history or sociology any you start to see that humans, no matter how we organize ourselves, fall into sadly predictable patterns by stubbornly refusing to learn the lessons of our past.
You misunderstand. That they can target anyone, at any time, is the point. They want you to live in fear.
Like everyone has this image of the Nazis being very orderly and efficient. And in some ways that's true. But the Sturmabteilung, like ICE, were not accountable to the law. If they turned up and decided they didn't like you, you could be beaten, kidnapped, tortured, or killed.
Kavanaugh, J., concurring:
Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.
"I mean sure it violates the letter AND spirit of the Constitution which I've been sworn to uphold, but I've been told after having their rights under [that silly document I don't care about] violated wholesale, the questioning is usually just a major inconvenience, so it's fine to harass, intimidate, assault, and capture U.S citizens similar to how I treated women in college lol."
Kavanaugh, J, basically.
papers, please.
Oh, he offered to show them identification but they wouldn't let him.
It’s a reference to a game about being an immigration officer in an authoritarian police state
Which was a reference to Nazis asking for papers.
So this guy was free to just get out of that SUV and walk away, right? He made it clear he was an American citizen, after all.
If it were me, and I were having a bad day like I do sometimes, I might do that, asking them to shot me.
"Make my day. Fuck me up bad for the camera! Oink oink piggy!"
*nazis *kidnap American citizen…
FTFY
Shouldn't be tackling and arresting anyone.
What about tickling? I saw one video a month ago where they pulled a woman out from her van. And as they were trying to hold her down, the one ice agent tickles her foot.
Ever since, I've been confused, trying to figure out what POSSIBLE purpose that served.
It’s a fetish combined with the willingness and permission to commit sexual assault.