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"ICE has already been operating like a paramilitary kidnapping squad. Officers
roam through neighborhoods, stake out hardware store parking lots, and even
occasionally enjoy some ethnic food just so they can raid the source of
hospitality later.
It’s nasty, disturbing, and definitely doesn’t resemble any of the things that
have made America great. Now, the rot has spread. It’s not enough for ICE to
engage in daylight snatchings on the regular. Now, its internal oversight
office has abandoned any pretense of keeping ICE in line. In fact, it has
completely gone in the opposite direction, turning this wing of ICE into
another set of secret police, as this report from
Wired makes clear:
Voting was already underway when the ICE agents arrived at a polling site in
Syracuse, New York, during the state’s primaries in June. The agents were
there to see Paigelynne Gonyea, a poll worker who says they were concerned
about an Instagram post she had supposedly made in January “doxing” an ICE
agent. The only post she could find was one she had made crediting the
Minnesota Star Tribune for identifying Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who
shot and killed Renee Good during the federal incursion in Minneapolis this
winter, and calling for his indictment.
The agents at the poll site asked Gonyea to sign a warning notice that said
it was unlawful to “threaten to assault, kidnap and/or murder” federal
officials or their immediate family members in an effort to impede that
federal official’s work. The form also requested that she remove her post
“and/or discontinue” her behavior.
“My signature would have been an admission of guilt,” Gonyea says. “I
refused to sign it.”
That’s just one person who’s been subjected to the OPR’s decision to stop
investigating allegations against ICE officers to focus on allegations of
external “threats” to ICE officers. There are more. Many more."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
