Good little germans….
”WHY ARENT THE CITIZENS COOPERATING WITH OUR GESTAPO”
”WHY DID THE MAYOR AND THE GUVNAH NOT BLINDLY OBEY OUR JACK-BOOTED MASKED NAZIS”
Mike Masnick of Techdirt
So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet posters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them
He's not following all of this correctly
Wow, you're really looking hard for this stuff aren't you?
THIS PROVES ICE IS JUSTIFIED!
OK, what's the correct profile of the new ICE hires, Darrin?
More FO for your viewing pleasure
Inductive from results, results don't lie
Any video of door to door interrogation and kidnapping? Please share
frame by frame synchronization from various angles
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...core-ios-shareMore videos are likely to emerge, but the visual evidence shows no indication that the agent who fired the shots, Jonathan Ross, had been run over. The footage provides visibility into the positioning between the agent and Ms. Good’s S.U.V., and the key moments of escalation. It also establishes — millisecond by millisecond — how Mr. Ross put himself in a dangerous position near her vehicle in the first place.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/14/politics/ice-minnesota-cnn-pollAmericans say, 51% to 31%, that ICE enforcement actions are making cities less safe rather than safer; another 18% say there’s been little effect either way.
".....Judge: ICE violated Liberian man’s rights by bursting through front door during arrest..."
https://www.fox9.com/news/judge-ice-...-during-arrest
ICE did not have a warrant here. Judge is ordering him released from jail.
But it's Vance that says ICE is going door to door. Buffoon.
TRO seeks to protect protected political expression
https://www.do entcloud.org/do e...rtro011626pdf/
Still no video of door to door searches and kidnapping. They just didn't have their warrant paperwork.
Also, any video of pregnant women being dragged down the street. Please share
Who cares if it's technically door to door or not? That was Vance that said it. Ask him.
You can call illegal arrests of US citizens whatever you want. It fits the definition.
And you can also stop acting like the law matters to you. We all know the bottom line is you're a racist Trump happy to get rid of scary minorities.
Tool.
MEH I DON'T CARE
DHS lies and deceives
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...nesota-prisonsOn social media, in press releases, and in public statements by its leaders, the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been have been implying that ICE’s street-level sweeps have netted criminals they call the “worst of the worst” — and that Minnesota has been protecting those people from capture.
Every few days since Operation Metro Surge began, DHS has released lists of people it says have been arrested.
MPR News examined one of the lists shared by DHS officials on Monday, Jan. 12 and found that most of the people on the list had been immediately transferred to ICE custody at the end of time served in Minnesota prisons.
All of those transfers happened before ICE began its surge of operations in Minnesota on Dec. 1, 2025, with some even happening years before.
It's sad to see how pathetic your existence has become. Bitter to your core.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/18/nx-s1...-prepare-willsDHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called Hirschfeld's comments about martyrdom "absurd," saying if he "really wanted to take a stand for the vulnerable" he would stand by the ICE agents who increasingly are under attack.
Hirschfeld said he doesfeel compassion for those agents.
"It's definitely our Christian responsibility to extend love even to our enemies," he said, and to love all God's children, even those who may be "swept up in a maelstrom of hatred and fear and power that is not godly."
Hirschfeld added, "I pray for everyone's conversion of heart."
The Standoff That Has Turned Minnesota Into a Tinderbox
ICE agents with arrest quotas are colliding with angry residents, a compact city and a relatively small proportion of immigrants here illegallyhttps://www.wsj.com/us-news/the-stan...erbox-a3a7e672
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
former FIRE president and National Review columnist, David French
popular revulsion at racialized enforcement as a manifestation of the dual state last broke out in 2020, in Minneapolis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...-immunity.htmlIn Federalist No. 51, James Madison wrote some of the most famous words of the American founding. “If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” Madison wrote. “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”
This is a version of the ancient question: Who will watch the watchers?
Madison’s next words were crucial. “A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”
In the Trump era, those auxiliary precautions have utterly failed. They’ve been undermined to the point where the reverse is now true. Rather than providing additional precautions against the rise of authoritarian rule, American law and precedent seem to presume that angels govern men, and those angels would be free to do even more good if only they possessed a free hand.
And so we’ve slowly but surely created the mechanisms of what the Nazi-era Jewish labor lawyer Ernst Fraenkel called “the dual state.”
Last March, Aziz Huq, a University of Chicago law professor, wrote a prescient (and deeply disturbing) piece for The Atlantic that revived Fraenkel’s analysis for this new American age.
Fraenkel had observed the rise of Nazi rule as a working lawyer and committed social democrat and noted that ordinary Germans enjoyed the benefit of what Huq describes as a “capitalist economy governed by stable laws” even as other parts of the German system changed into an engine of genocide and war.
The two components of the dual state are the normative state — the seemingly normal world that you and I inhabit, where, as Huq writes, the “ordinary legal system of rules, procedures and precedents” applies — and the prerogative state, which is marked (in Fraenkel’s words) by “unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees.”
“The key here,” Huq writes, “is that this prerogative state does not immediately and completely overrun the normative state. Rather, Fraenkel argued, dictatorships create a lawless zone that runs alongside the normative state.”
It’s the continued existence of the normative state that lulls a population to sleep. It makes you discount the warnings of others. “Surely,” you say to yourself, “things aren’t that bad. My life is pretty much what it was.”
While we’re thankfully not yet close to the Nazi reality, you can see the emerging dual state in action in Minneapolis right now. In much of the city, life is routine. People create new businesses, enter into contracts, file litigation and make deals as if life were completely normal and the rule of law exists, untainted by our deep political divide.
But if you interact with ICE, suddenly you risk coming up against the full force of the prerogative state. One of the most heartbreaking aspects of the ICE agent’s video of the fatal encounter between Renee Good and ICE is that it’s plain that Good thinks she’s still in the normative state. She has no idea of the peril she’s in.
She seems relaxed. She even seems to have told the agent that she’s not mad at him. In the normative state, your life almost never depends on immediate and unconditional compliance with police commands.
But she wasn’t in the normative state. She had crossed over the border to the prerogative state, and in that state you can be shot dead recklessly, irresponsibly and perhaps even illegally, and no one will pay the price.
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