Secret Trump Memo Tells ICE to Break into Homes Without Warrants
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I know most people on Lemmy are already aware of this, but I'm wondering if anyone who still doesn't think it will effect U.S. citizens (whatever that even means anymore) realize that DHS is also trying to dismantle their civil rights offices.
They are claiming it is because the offices keep getting in the way of their immigration practices, but only 2 of the 3 offices have to do with immigration.
They 3rd is the office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. It doesn't matter if you believe you're the "right kind of American," or you can argue that you can trace your family to the Mayflower. This is who ensures you have civil rights and civil liberties while dealing with DHS. If you or a loved one end up in DHS custody for some reason and need to use FOIA to prove it happened, this is the office you would rely on.
The people that handle domestic security for the country want to get rid of the office that protects the rights of Americans. Meanwhile, they have also signed this memo saying they no longer need a warrant to search people's homes if they suspect there might be an immigrant hiding in your home bc those immigrants might be terrorists.
Again, if you're thinking well I'm not hiding immigrants, it really doesn't matter.
Maybe one of your neighbors reported you were to fuck with you. Maybe you pissed off the wrong DHS agent or other government employee and you're being targeted.
The point is, if you're not concerned because you think it won't effect you, your ancestors that "came here legally" to escape tyranny would think you're either stupid, delusional, or simply choosing to be in complete denial of reality.
Yeah that is kind of a given, I just wish more people would wake up to that fact.
There are a lot of weaknesses, that's the issue.
The point is not that we should preserve it because it's a great system that doesn't need to be fixed, the point is that if we just let it go in the hopes that it will be replaced with something better, we lose protections that many people are blissfully unaware they have.
I'm asking this not to judge or attack anyone that doesn't agree, but as legitimate questions. Let's say we just agreed to let it all go and give up the rights that many people argue we already don't have.
Why do you think the judge that they arrested is not sitting in jail right now?
When the woman in New Orleans was deported along with her children last week, why do you think ICE abruptly ended her call with her husband when he tried to give her the contact information for a lawyer?
Why do you think Trump is even bothering to get the supreme court to rule in his favor when he tries to violate laws in order to trigger another constitutional crisis?
Why would he bother with any legal steps? If he truly is as untouchable as he believes himself to be, why wouldn't he just save himself the time and energy?
We very well might see him reach the point when he says that he will no longer bother, but he's already steadily losing public support (and more importantly his donors are losing money as the public also turns against them).
Once he loses enough support and money, he knows he's pretty fucked. It's fucking disgusting he was ever allowed to reach this point to begin with a d continue to receive support.
That doesn't change the fact that saying ok you're right, we don't need these laws because they were never effective enough in the first place, allows him to skip ahead and reach the point where he can do all of these things without worrying about public opinion.
I use proton VPN, but no I always just get my phones from Amazon bc it's cheap. Never was a real problem in the past, but now that the U.S. is (officially) a giant Oligopoly, probably not a wise idea.
I don't really know any tech friends that are super in the know about that kind of thing. I have a paid Norton 360 subscription that does frequent scans for malware and says it never finds anything, but honestly wouldn't even be surprised to learn I'm paying for a useless subscription.
The only reason I even bring that up is bc our current Governor who has always been a power hungry authoritarian boot licker renewed the Executive Order for a state of emergency for a cyber incident that our previous governor first created when the data breach happened several years ago.
When he "renewed" the order, he also slipped in a new section that granted authority to the director of one of his cabinet's agencies, Governor's office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP), to handle the emergency as he sees fit.
What's even more concerning is that on the same day he renewed this order, he restructured GOHSEP so that it is now under the control of the state's National Guard, gave the former director of GOHSEP a new title, and then named a member of the Guard "acting director."
He's been very vague about what the renewal was about, but it allegedly had something to do with updating the OMV/DMV data base for the state. Since then he has also created a hiring freeze for the state, which would seem to indicate that whoever was acting director is now indefinitely the director named in the executive order until the governor decides to lift the hiring freeze.
Even for someone not already paranoid, and without everything happening at a national level, that would all be a bit concerning right? I'm not a journalist, but I've been trying to get people to pay attention to it.
For some reason, no actual local journalists seem to be willing to point this out, but it's all publicly available information.
I know I'm usually on the more paranoid side, but I've always assumed everything I do on a smartphone is potentially being monitored via camera or mics.
If the apps are just taking screenshots, or recording a few seconds of data via mic, it would be almost guaranteed that certain corrupt (and also paranoid) governments that are dismissive of privacy rights could force or bribe those apps to allow them to also access screens, mics, and cameras anyway, right?
I'm in the U.S., and especially with how glitchy my phone has suddenly become over the last few months, I'm just at the point where I just assume that's what's going on.
I had the same android for like 4 years without many issues, then suddenly around February it just became almost impossible to use. Weird glitchy things with the size of the tool bar at the bottom of my screen and the popup keyboard. Redirect notifications all the time for certain websites, and my VPN connection is just constantly interrupted and having to be reset.
I finally was like fuck it, this is an old phone so maybe that's it. Brand new phone, but most of the same issues.
I use signal instead of text most of the time, and switched a lot of things to proton mail, but if someone is potentially recording your screen, does it really matter if what you're doing is encrypted?
"I get Obama tan suit vibes from myself"
Exactly this, there is so much shit to be angry about right now. If you're Catholic, I understand why this is something you might focus on, but it's like everything he does in every moment as president is offensive.
With Obama and the tan suit, they needed to create something to make people upset. Focusing on the suit right now almost feels like a distraction from the insanity of literally every other aspect of his presidency.
Like when Melania wore the "I don't care do you?" to visit children in deportation centers. We know these people are scum, we know they are IRL edgelords seeking attention on an international stage.
There's shit they want you to get angry about and focus on, and then there's the shit they're trying so hard to keep quiet. Just make sure you don't let the things they're trying to keep quiet go unnoticed.
Eh, I think most people would be able to reason through that, but I'm also a terrible speller, so I might be a little biased.
That might also be why I agree typos can be a useful way to determine if you're still talking to a human.
I think I'll just chill here with my civil rights for as long as I can hold on to them, or until somebody wants to tell me the alternative plan that would justify tossing them while facing the extremely wealthy and powerful group of individuals controlling the largest public and private militaries in the world, but thanks!
Also, not sure where I called anyone a Nazi for not agreeing with me? If you're justifying Nazism to fight what you perceive is fascism (a slow legal system?) then, yes I would probably say you are a Nazi, but I'm not sure why you would then be upset about it?
Sorry, I think I actually jumped to my own conclusions and misunderstood your comment. I wrote a really long comment but it looks like it got lost somehow. This is the shortened version:
You make a really good point about what empathy truly is, and something I've been thinking about a lot lately.
We have these people in power that want to claim empathy is a weakness because they try to misconstrue what empathy actually is.
Empathy does not mean you must take pity on someone or agree with them on every issue. It's actually a very useful tool and strength because it allows you to gain insight into their decision making process.
A lack of empathy can definitely lead people to do some horrible shit to each other bc they view the other person as less than human, but the lack of empathy can actually be exploited as a weakness.
Encouraging people to lack empathy is actually just encouraging a weakness in order to deceive and manipulate.
Like you're saying about this kid, looking at it from his perspective it's not so hard to see how he could be deceived, but it still does make me wonder if: A. He was targeted for propaganda because of who he was, and B. If targeting people to create the general idea of a "tankie" or any other extremist identity actually kind of leaves us all vulnerable by encouraging us to lack empathy for that individual?
Sorry dude but that sounds like some DOGE talk.
The legal system is slow, but not ineffectual. It is literally the only thing working to pump the breaks. They ignored and violated the law by arresting that judge in Wisconsin, but the law is also the only reason she was able to be removed from jail after her arrest.
They arrested that judge to make a statement because it was right after conservative justices on the supreme court sided with the left leaning justices.
If we cut the breaks we give them exactly what they want.
True, following orders was not the best way to put it. Sadly I just meant instead of ignoring the judges decision or arresting the judge.
I literally said this dude was not bright, and probably suffering from mental health issues.
That doesn't exclude the possibility the Russian army targeted him for recruitment because they knew who he was.
I don't think the words have lost all meaning. We have just gotten so used to hearing them used in bad faith arguments while also having smaller acts of fascism embraced as normal.
It's like the argument that calling people Nazis left them no choice but to become literal Nazis. You always have a choice.
I am glad to have this discussion though because if we can't openly discuss these things then we increase the chance that the narrative will be hijacked to fit an agenda.
I'm glad they're actually following a judges orders for some reason, but yeah that's probably true.
Even if it's not meant to be a distraction, that is something people need to be very concerned about. My oh shit sensor has been going off frequently anyway, but especially since they first started talking about going after civil rights offices in DHS for getting in the way of immigration policy.
With this memo, they could just start entering people's homes and violating all kinds of rights under the premise of suspected housing of immigrants.
I mean he definitely made some very unwise decisions. Just wondering if Russia really didn't know who he was when they recruited him.
I think it was his mom, but they had to know right?
Like I've known complete nobodies who got hassled for being very low level government employees from America traveling near the Russian border.
It definitely seems like he made some very unwise decisions, but seems like he potentially had some mental health issues.
This article says he apparently talked about how he conquered mortality and different incarnations of himself. He was also right at the age when symptoms start to become more apparent.
Idk dude, this doesn't make any sense. I mean it could be some dude who wasn't very bright, and joined the army because he was very confused and disillusioned, but why would a leftist who hates fascism go join the Russian army?
No one is releasing any information about his death other than he was killed in Ukraine and it's not known if the Russian army knew he was the son of a CIA agent when he joined.
Very odd
While in Turkey, Gloss began expressing a desire to go on to Russia. “He was usually watching videos about Palestine and was so angry at America,” one acquaintance told iStories. “He started thinking about going to Russia. He wanted to war with the USA. But I think he was very influenced by the conspiracy theory videos.”
A number of acquaintances told the outlet that he had not been interested in fighting, but hoped the army would allow him to receive a Russian passport and stay in the country.
I cannot comprehend how anyone could possibly believe they would be able to join the Russian army during a war and some how not have to fight??
And why join the Russian army at that point and not Ukraine if he hated fascists?? None of this makes any sense.
Don't spread information, everybody already knows this stuff and nobody cares, that's why nobody is talking about it.
Don't vote, why bother? Both sides are the same anyway.
Don't join protests, do you see who's out there protesting, you're just supporting an even worse cause.
Don't resist, just accept that it's already too late.
They believe the constitution should be interpreted to uphold the will of a leader/law and order over liberty of the people.
I'm not saying I disagree with you, just telling you what the legal argument will likely be when they arrest people or return force when people try to defend their home.
That argument JD Vance made about judges not having the authority to rule against executive decision is not his original argument. Adrian Vermeule is a Harvard constitutional law professor who has been making the argument favoring unchecked executive authority over all other government and executive power over liberty for a very long time.