So DHS really didn’t teach the new hires anything useful. Got it.
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He saw a building full of unfettered brown people and got a fascist boner. Thought he'd get a whole bus full of potential bonuses and they had the gall to stop him! He'll yell at a weaker white person tonight to feel better.
The State Department, Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Of course they didn't.
Motherfuckers.
Jesus it's a matter of time until ICE abducts some ambassador isn't it
Before they claim to have smelled smoke and valiantly battled the fire with a hail of bullets.
Please, please let them try to assault a Latin American embassy only to be met with a hail of (accurate) gunfire. ICE thinks they have qualified immunity? They would find out real quick what absolute immunity looks like.
One ICE officer can be heard responding by threatening to “grab” the staffer
JFC - didn't these goons ever watch Lethal Weapon 2? Consulate staff would literally have diplomatic immunity - AND a diplomatic visa. They're not immigrants, they're diplomats.
Ecuador should send their military into the US embassy in Quito and see how it goes for everyone involved and watch how quickly the whining and importance of international law comes back.
Two things would happen.
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They'd justify the ICE goon's behavior by claiming the embassy was enabling terrorism or drug trafficking.
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They would pitch a huge fit, take some sort of extreme action, and claim they're in the right because US diplomats are good guys.
They don't care about rules, ethics, or even having a consistent system of values. They only care about punishing people, power, and getting what they want when they want it. If they pull back at all, it's only because they fear their support (and with it their immunity from consequences) is slipping. They're just bullies and cowards.
Video posted here:
https://lemmy.world/post/42277358
It looks like someone with a backpack was trying to get away from them in the very first second of the video.
The US is heading out of the door of the civilised world.
That happened last year bud
Last year? Not, like, constantly prior to that?
Obviously it's a sliding scale but, IMO, up until the second Bush Jr presidency, it seemed the USA had some excuse to do their atrocities one could use to look the other way.
Things continue to decline faster and faster but now, with the second election of the Felon Pedophile, the USA showed the world they are completely lost: morally, ethically, politically, etc
From native genocide and chattel slavery to imperialist massacres, Vietnam, and the Middle East, it kinda feels like there were just a few good moments tucked into a pretty rough history.
For me, the current, open, cascade failure just highlights how thin the veneer over hundreds of years of atrocities has been.
Until they get universal healthcare they haven’t ever been part of the civilized world as far as I’m concerned. It doesn’t even have to be that good, it just has to be not completely absent(the ACA does not do enough to redeem the rest).
Well, well, well, How the turntables?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_raid_on_the_Mexican_embassy_in_Quito?wprov=sfla1
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