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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

ICE is also operating with "restraint" and "professionalism" as far as paramilitaries go.

Don't let the terrible normalize the bad.

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    I think they're saying this is what a paramilitary is. Civilians acting as an illegitimate military; brutality is the default. ICE isn't murdering and raping yet, therefore, they are actually a restrained species of paramilitary. They're a mob sicced on specific targets and so far they've been nice about it. They exist so that we may end up in mass graves, which seemingly isn't happening yet.

    By extension, they're saying not to give police too much credit. I assume they're implying that police desperately need reform, and they're descended from pinkertons... from state sanctioned gangbangers. Therefore a good bad guy is just a good bad guy, and not a good guy.

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    Yes. The job of paramilitaries is extermination and intimidation.

    That is their job. They are doing it. That's professionalism.

    They aren't going the "quick and dirty" path of extermination by killing them all. Just the troublesome or sickly ones.

    That's restraint.

    You are pointing at a paramilitary doing paramilitary shit. The problem isn't the level of "professionalism" or "restraint", the problem is that it's a fucking paramilitary.

    If you want to name those "police departments operating with professionalism and restraint" I can play this exact same game because it's still cops doing cop shit.

    If you disagree, how do you propose one enacts an extermination and intimidation campaign "professionally and with restraint"?

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