DHS has argued that agents still identify themselves while masked: “When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by highly sophisticated gangs like Tren de Aragua and MS-13, criminal rings, murderers, and rapists,” assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a September statement.
If this were true, every judge, police officer and prosecutor would be dead. So no, they do not need to hide their faces. We all know why they are really hiding their faces.
Release the files.
There was a difference?
One is a group of despicable masked bandits who instill fear, destroy livelihoods, and operate outside the confines of the legal system
The other group are criminals
Can we go backing to my ancestors banditry where you mug Mormons and rob trains?
Still surprised we haven’t seen more shoot outs. But that just goes to show how peaceful people seeking citizenship really are.
its because ice isnt targeting backwaters red areas, or states. MAGATS wouldve started shooting the moment they tried it, plus the gop would get upset over ice.
I always thought protesters should wear jeans or tan tactical pants, boots, vest and plate ($35-50 from Amazon), a tacticool utility belt ($20-30 from amazon), helmet ($30 from amazon) a black Balaclava Ski Mask ($6), with sunglasses. On the right chest have a random ID number like “A462”. Slap an American flag patch (or a Police gang patch with the blue line).
You could even throw in a functional gas mask for $50
These ICE creeps don’t have a proper issued uniform. They bought their shit off amazon as well. I saw one dude who looked like he was wearing airsoft/paintball stuff.
Can you imagine the confusion if everyone dressed in tacticool? Those untrained ICE idiots would be completely lost.
The JR “Bob” Dobbs mantra - “If you act like a dumb shit, they’ll treat you like an equal”.
Wow, I have not seen a church of the sub genius reference in almost 20 years.
Wow, I have not seen a church of the sub genius reference in almost 20 years.
Well, that’s probably just part of the Pink Conspiracy. They’ve been stealing your slack.
They just had a cool doc about them come out not that long ago. Sadly, the podcast/Hour of Slack has come to an end:
https://archive.org/details/hourofslack
The Hour of Slack was produced weekly since 1985 by REV. IVAN STANG (PO Box 807, Glen Rose, Texas, 76043, USA) – more years than Johnny Carson or David Letterman were on the air. The show was discontinued in June, 2022; host Rev. Stang simply got burned out after 37 years of weekly shows. His hearing loss wasn’t helping either.
there was a analog horror/ARG on youtube that used some of their stuff i think its been a few years now.
Does listening to 40oz count?
cult of bob
Yup.
It would be VERY easy to infiltrate them while they’re out in the field. Just surround them with people looking just like them. They’d have no option but to retreat.
And do this on Halloween so they can’t arrest you for impersonating an officer either! #lifeHacks
Sorry 🤭
EDIT: Oh, wait… no, wait a minute… does the fact that they don’t have an officially issued uniform really mean that technically you could argue in court that you were not impersonating an officer? That. Is. Wildly stupid of them if true.
As long as you had nothing on your “uniform” that said Police or had a badge of any sort, they would be hard pressed to charge you with anything. If they nabbed you, and you weren’t black bagged to a blackzone and disappeared, you could always say you arrived to protest wearing a helmet, plate carrier, gas mask because of the documented law enforcement violence towards citizens. The pouches and utility belt could contain things like first aid supplies.
First aid supplies OR tiny plastic unicorns and skittles.
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I would, but with my luck that would be the day everyone decides enough is enough and they start beating the dogshit out of every ice agent lol
I love this idea.
So we’re allowed to shoot them in self defense now if they don’t ID?
Yes, and I am shocked this hasn’t already happened.
The fact that this isn’t an every day occurrence confuses the shit out of me.
Americans are cowards. They’re more worried about losing their shitty jobs that they hate than they are about losing their country (and with it, their shitty jobs anyway). What’s confusing?
Or if they do.
This just tells me that the “real” ICE agents, are doing criminal stuff and the FBI are just getting in front of that. What did they think would happen when you give the otherwise unemployable a badge and a gun, and empower them?
I didn’t think this before I read your comment but now I do. 😐
So masked ICE are likely criminals? Noted
So masked ICE are
likelycriminals? Noted
Oh my nobody could have seen this coming. (Sarcasm)
People were calling it from day 1. I’m surprised it took this long for the FBI to come out with a statement… although…
Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states,
I’d need to see some exceptionally compelling evidence to be convinced they weren’t actually just ICE officers doing this.
And later in the story…
A senior ICE official tells WIRED: “Anyone caught impersonating themselves as a federal immigration agent will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Impersonating a federal immigration officer endangers public safety and erodes trust in law enforcement.”
Only the bootliquors still have any trust remaining. Fucking trust. Lol
I worry that they’ll claim wearing a mask is “impersonating a federal immigration officer”, especially when it’s bad enough the protests happen in earnest.
Shhhhh! Don’t give those fuckers any ideas!
We’ve reached a point where lawlessness is being championed by both the law and criminals. Add to that we have elected a felon/pedophile president. What a time to be alive - sigh.
What gets me is that the bothsiders are still screeching about the situation they helped get everyone into.
Nuance, reality and pragmatism be damned.
agreed its too suspicious they are not ice, they would doing it in red areas to, which they arnt.
They’re doing their best.
Some of them are probably real ICE.
Plausible deniability.
Reports of a masked ICE Agent murdering an individual filming an ICE raid, then fleeing the scene. “That wasn’t an actual ICE agent. Don’t worry, it’s… ‘under investigation’ and we’ll never release any information about the incident ever again.”
Aaaaannnnddd ding ding ding, you won this round!
The FBI only put a bulletin warning that masked individuals might be pretending to be government agents, just now? After nine months of terrorism? How is this not seen as authoritarian move? This is like with any full blown authoritarian states where the dear leader says something vague tantamount to directing a purge. And when enough people were purged, the dear leader would then say that his goons had gone too far from his original intent and order them to stop. This is not the first time America did something similar; the red scare and the McCarthy’s communist witch hunts went on long enough to tarnish people’s reputation, before Harry Truman made a speech calling out what is happening as unfair to people whose reputations were ruined. The powers-that-be know what the heck their doing and the last minute “call to sanity” is to white wash their deliberate intentions.
Peak FBI incompetence, there were already high ranking political murders by people taking advantage of ICE masks.
Take off the masks, you fucking cowards
I guess they don’t want people harassing them at home.
They also see no irony in that at all sadly.
hah they’re not going to ID themselves. these cowards can’t even do their “jobs” without covering their faces because they’re so scared.
Well, they’re scared, but also the admin doesn’t want the identities to be revealed and shown that like 90% of ICE was probably recruited straight from known neo-nazi/white nationalist groups like the Proud Boys
Organized gangs finally had their lightbulb moment?
Well, that assumes “organized gang” and “ICE” are mutually exclusive….
Don’t trash “organized gangs”, they’re better at what they do than ICE
In Cyberpunk, the NCPD is basically just another gang. More organized than the Valentinos or Tiger Claws, but pretty much the same by the end of the day.
In real life though, ICE seems to be a lot like a gang too. Have they pivoted to drugs and violent extortion yet? You know, if you smuggle guns and slaves, you can make a lot of money?
There’s no way ICE hasn’t been involved in illegal drug smuggling for decades. It doesn’t work without corrupt people in those kinds of positions. DEA and CBP as well.
They’re actually just taking their cue from the biggest gang
More like white supremacists realized they could kidnap and kill immigrants with a lower chance of being caught.
This civil war is going to get fucking weird.
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Win win even if they’re the real deal
You can only win a gun fight if you have superior numbers and firepower. Otherwise it’s just certain death for the assaulted.
We need to bring back the concept of a citizen militia.
Drones and payloads. Guns are last century.
making guncotton at home is not that hard but then i remembered its US so you can probably go buy gunpowder by the gallon from your local walmart or something
You joke, but yes you can.
2 gun stores are closer than walmart why would i go to the box store
Yeah. Having watched a good amount of Ukraine footage I now flinch whenever I hear buzzing sounds. We are going to have a generation of people afraid of the open air.
Republicans better think about inside only events. No one even needs line of sight.
Both sides will have to.
Well, public opinion won’t favor blowing up people in blow up costumes dancing on the roadside. 🙃
A half dozen people in every neighborhood ready to roll on ICE as soon as they show up would force a new conversation pretty fucking quick.
Disagree, initiative and proper cover can really even the odds. Ymmv.
High tech lasers from the future also help a lot.
Doubly so if they’re supported by omniscient kill orbs from the orb wars of 3725.
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