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Chilling! This article is less about LinkedIn and more about Peter Thiel's Persona corp (which was also supposed to be responsible for Discord's new identification system) and their obscene data collection & sharing of personal data among mostly US "partner" orgs and processors, regardless of where you're based...
Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE.
They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.
They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.
He bragged to other agents āfive shots, 7 holesā.
Silverio Villegas GonzƔlez was an undocumented immigrant who was shot and killed at close range while allegedly trying to flee.
He was dragged from his vehicle at a traffic stop after dropping his children off at school.
The bullet went through the back of his neck.
Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off duty ICE officer on New Years Eve in LA.
The officer alleges Porter pulled a weapon on him but the family and other witnesses deny that.
Renee Nicole Good was shot three times by an ICE agent who called her a āf*cking b*tchā after.
ICE claims she was using her vehicle as a weapon despite multiple videos showing she was trying to drive away from the agent.
2 of the 3 shots were through driver side door.
The ICE agent shot her through her windshield, moved out of the way of the vehicle and kept shooting.
He was in no danger. But he didnāt stop shooting until he got the kill shot.
Independent autopsy confirms it was through her left temple and out the right side of her skull.
Thereās been so much documented abuse of power.
In addition to the shootings we have Liam Ramos, a five year old child who was used as bait and then taken by masked agents and sent from Minnesota to Texas.
Thereās Geraldo Campos who was choked to death in an ICE camp in Texas.
The medical examiner officially ruled his death a homicide, and DHS moved to deport the witnesses!
Chaofeng Ge was found hanging in ICE custody.
They ruled it a suicide despite his arms and legs being tied behind his back.
Randall Gamboa Esquivel was in perfect health when detained by ICE.
He disappeared while in custody.
By the time his family located him, he was in a persistent vegetative state.
They deported him to Costa Rica and he died soon after.
David Courvelle worked as a detention officer in an ICE facility in Louisiana.
He sexually assaulted a Nicaraguan detainee for three months, forcing other detainees to keep watch while he abused her.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza, a mother of 8 who had been in the US for 40 years, was sexually harassed by an ICE contractor.
He reportedly would tell her if she was good to him, he would be good to her.
When she reported the harassment she was immediately detained.
Bayron Rovidio Marin had his leg broken during an ICE raid in LA.
He was then held in the hospital under a fake name so no one could find him.
He was chained to a hospital bed for 37 days until a court ordered his release.
Thereās Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee whoās been in ICE custody for almost a year.
He was only two days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when they grabbed him.
Heās being denied his prosthetics, heās been placed in solitary and his health is declining
Now thereās Alex Pretti, another US citizen shot and killed in broad daylight.
These are not just a few random incidents.
Itās not a few ābad applesā.
Itās a systemic problem.
These agents have been allowed to hide their identities, filled with hateful rhetoric and told they have immunity.
People are being abused, assaulted and killed by ICE.
This isnāt about immigration or crime, itās about control & creating fear.
Itās tyranny and no one is safe under tyranny.
The scariest part is these are only the cases we know about.
At least 1,200 people are missing from Alligator Alcatraz.
Elected officials are regularly denied access into the camps.
We have to assume we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
Abolish ICE.
Close the camps.
Keep witnessing and speaking out.
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It's been over 20 years, but I'm still kind of haunted by a particular press conference during the Bush II administration. It was two weeks before he invaded Iraq and about three weeks after the massive, record-setting demonstrations across the US and around the planet in opposition to the coming war. Millions of people participated in those rallies and marches, and collectively they have been acknowledged as the single largest political demonstration in human history.
And when someone in the press corps asked Bush what he thought about the enormous amount of popular worldwide opposition to his invasion plans, he smiled and told them how much he loves free speech and how great it is that people can say whatever they want. And that was that.
A few weeks later, the US invaded another country that had done nothing to provoke it, resulting in mass death, extreme political instability (which did not remain exclusively within Iraq's borders), ecological destruction, and large-scale loss of irreplaceable historical artifacts in what, by now, is recognized by a very broad swath of the political spectrum as a pointless war justified through deceit and outright fraud.
The transcript of the press conference is at the link below, but it doesn't do justice to his delivery: the patronizing smile, the fratty camaraderie with the fawning press corps, the disarming affability. I was really jaded already, but if I still retained any shred of confidence in the power of big marches to accomplish anything much, that was really the end of it. Bush's reply was arguably the most cynical act of rhetorical jujitsu I've ever seen, which is saying a lot at this point.
When people ask why I believe in direct action and, yeah, even "violence"* as a means to political ends, it's because I've seen, through the example of people like Bush, that power doesn't listen if it doesn't see a cost in not listening. They hear us and they know what we need from them, but they just don't care. Asking politely just isn't even an option.
* The ethics and even the definition of "political violence" is a whole other can of worms. We can maybe discuss, but honestly, I'd just as soon not.
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030306-8.html
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