I have no fear of the U.S. Military, Active Duty or Reserve or National Guard; not from any soldier [View all]
...I have fear for myself and other Americans of the mission and activity of the irregular, armed and armored new recruits who make up the militarized forces of ICE.
The 'Kavanaugh stops' which advantage the republican Supreme Court justice's writing for the maga majority that ICE agent's practice of stopping, detaining, and jailing people in the country who have darker skin than white; work at certain jobs; or don't speak a certain way is just a minor inconvenience; have allowed Trump to yank this nation back to the Jim Crow era where government not only established myriad ways to deny black residents rights and opportunities regularly afforded to their white counterparts, but allowed the rest of society to do so, as well, with impunity and even encouragement.
Up until now, even as the jackass that runs the Pentagon who thinks he's some god of war is drawing up battle plans against the diversity of his forces that he believes threatens the purity of his "male standard," the U.S. military foces, like our government workforce, has benefited from a slightly higher percentage of women, people of color, and alternatively able individuals than in most businesses.
In uniform and under command they don't threaten Americans, they defend and protect us as if we are their own. It's their creed, it's why they joined the service - to defend and protect the nation and it's inhabitants.
The U.S. Army's official motto, "This We'll Defend," has been in use since 1778 and embodies the core values of loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage. This motto signifies the Army's commitment to safeguarding the nation and its citizens, reinforcing the idea that soldiers are dedicated to protecting the Constitution and the values that define the United States.
The recruitment effort behind Trump's campaign of mass deportations to fill out the unaccountable police agency with faux soldiers aimed to recruit law enforcement officers inclined to object to their cities' restrictions on immigration enforcement, thereby aligning with ICE's broader deportation efforts.
The ads featured a narrator stating, "You took an oath to protect and serve, to keep your family, your city, safe. But in sanctuary cities, you’re ordered to stand down while dangerous illegals walk free."
Beyond that, the spots are identical, inviting officers to “join ICE and help us catch the worst of the worst. Drug traffickers. Gang members. Predators," according to a review of the ads on the ad-tracking service AdImpact.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ice-recruitment-raids-trump-ads-b2840178.html
“They are the ones that are making it a war zone,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Sunday on CNN. “They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it’s a war zone.”
Echoing that view, U.S. District Judge April Perry, in halting the advance of military troops into Illinois this week, said that tactics used by immigration agents in Chicago so far have only increased the risk of protests, and that bringing in the National Guard would only make matters worse.
Judge Perry, too, asked if under 10 U.S.C. 12406 it mattered that the government was unable to execute federal law because of its own provocative conduct. Alexander Hamilton said it didn’t, implying that the government could deliberately foment unrest and cite that unrest in deploying troops.
Indeed, that is what our military does when deployed against enemies abroad. It immediately sets about protecting its own forces from attack; an absurd proposition that armed and armored troops in flak jackets and helmets needing more protection from residents hollering objections and defenses of their neighbors, coworkers, and fellow country folk under increasingly terrorizing assault from these forces directed against mostly workers and their families as if arrayed and armed against the fictional "worst of the worst" Trump has demonized as drug traffickers gang members, and predators."
It's a war game for anti-American malcontents who enjoy assaulting non-white people, enabled by this racist, criminal president and unleashed on American communities like disciples of the KKK Grand Wizard.
As U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum said today, as she called on ICE to stop abducting her Oregon constituents, “These ICE raids are reminiscent of the Fugitive Slave Act, when the U.S. Marshals would hunt down and kidnap Black Americans. That was a dark and shameful time in our nation’s history—we must not allow that to repeat.
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