They know no shame, but they are absolute cowards. They are bullies who were given guns and freedom from legal consequences.

It's not shame. It's insurance. It's to make it difficult/impossible to file a complaint or win a criminal case in the event that the administration crumbles and someone tries to hold them accountable.

I feel like this isn't really a "gotcha", it pretty much says this on the tin - they don't want to identify themselves because they don't want to be held accountable for their actions.

The issue isn't that they're wearing masks, it's that a large portion of American Citizens believe that it's appropriate for them to do so. Transparency and accountability is the bedrock of democracy. How can the populace elect representatives if those representatives do not need to disclose their activities and no one can be held accountable.

The vast majority of cops will refuse to provide any identifying information. As long as the arresting officer complies, it holds up in court. Everyone else does whatever they want and waits to see if a lawyer cares enough to subpoena the department for all the bodycam footage they already conveniently destroyed.

ice isn't special in that regard. They just understand they have no intent of giving anyone they abduct a trial (because "they aren't citizens and have no rights").

Same with the constant escalation to pretend that everything is a riot or a swat raid where cops need to wear protective gear so that they don't teargas themselves and have to assume everyone is going to hunt them down after work and shoot them (and, for legal purposes, that would be a very illegal thing and thus bad).

they're afraid of getting doxed because when the hammer falls, they'll be remembered, and they have families

I've been having issues for a while too.

I can poke in a page load sometimes but it’s not going great. We need to coordinate a scrape of the site and torrent it out before it’s shut down.

Dudes doing good work but they will absolutely kill him. Grab that data.

Hopefully somebody who has it gets a torrent up and seeding

Worked on my VPN to Mexico City. Slow but loading. Trying to export all the data.

I didn’t know there were secret police in America.

The masks and complete refusal to identify themselves didn't give that away?

ICE isn't law enforcement, they don't have the legal rights to enforce laws.

Being an illegal immigrant is also not a crime, is a civil offense. Their law given abilities stop there.

Essentially everything they are doing right now is blatantly illegal. It's no different than an armed milita in that sense.

It is public. To get around that, they pay Flock (or some similar company) to spy on us instead, then use our tax dollars to buy our data from those companies, then deny FOIA requests for our own data under the reasoning that it's their property since they bought it, and you can only FOIA records they collect, not property they purchase.

Even as law enforcement, they have a level of rights to privacy, just like the rest of us. That is why badge numbers are used. They unambiguously identify them, without also spreading who their siblings are, and where their children go to school.

The lack of ANY identifying features for ICE "agents" is VERY telling.

they were suppose to, but they made them not to carry thier IDs with them, and probably obfuscating the hiring process too. since they pratically hire anyone.

As long as we don’t give them that opportunity then they won’t shift blame or spill blood egregiously, right? So let’s just never fight back and things will inevitably get better, right? They would never escalate without the left giving them reason to, right?

Fuck off with this.

A hero isn’t necessarily a ham sandwich.

They are not going to charge them. They are just going to disappear.

The difference is ICE agents actively choose to be enemies of the people?

Those would be the Epstein Files. This is still nice to have out there, though. Governments should fear their people.

Yes and no.

Yes, there is a lot of value to staying in The System and trying to break it from within.

But when your day to day duties are to abduct and murder people? Yeah, I am sure John Smith is gonna LOVE that you were a rascal and actually put him in the system as "Johm Snith" so that his lawyers have good cause to declare the arrest void. Except... he has no lawyers because John got executed last week. And now nobody will ever find out which ditch his corpse might be in.

And that is the problem when you get to these paramilitary orgs. Mad props to the whistleblower for acting now. How many people did they hurt along the way? And how effective will this even be when the christofacists still rule this country?

To be clear. If there is absolutely nothing else you can do, then yeah, resist through weaponized incompetence and all that. But... just understand that you might be rightfully tried as a collaborator regardless of how slow you were at changing those tires.

They're downloading doesn't work. It just opens the blank page.

Have that PDF handy?

The admin started purging data in 2025, it might still be on the GOV websites, but many datahoarder groups have been on top of archiving things. J6 convictions, J6 committee reports and videos, etc... are backed up by many people running torrents.

I'm trying to create a backup for torrenting but I'm getting down rates of 20B/s