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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWithout a fucking shred of irony
MIDWEST UNREST @MW_Unrest 11h11 hours agoFor two days, residents in Portland have surrounded the local ICE detention center with a 24 hr encampment.
Tonight, without a fucking shred of irony, ICE agents complained those blocking their trucks were "keeping them apart from their families."
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Without a fucking shred of irony (Original Post)
bigtree
Jun 2018
OP
Ohiogal
(32,005 posts)1. GOOD FOR YOU, PORTLAND RESIDENTS!
kimbutgar
(21,157 posts)2. We need to do this all over the country.
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)3. "...keeping them apart from their families."
Well, ain't that just too fucking bad.
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)4. Good
They get it.
How's being kept away from your family feel?
Raster
(20,998 posts)7. I'll tell you what, Mr. or Ms. ICE person...
...why don't I just take YOUR little 4-year old child and put them somewhere??? I'll give you pre-printed card with a number to call when you want to get your child back... work for you?
Solly Mack
(90,771 posts)5. I want to smack something.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)6. just insane nt.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,734 posts)8. K&R
lunatica
(53,410 posts)9. Payback sucks doesn't it?
ploppy
(2,162 posts)10. Too bad, ICEholes
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)11. ICE is the new Gestapo
Exotica
(1,461 posts)12. agents complained those blocking their trucks were "keeping them apart from their families"
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
raven mad
(4,940 posts)13. Rock ON, Portland!
And hey, ICE??? We all know it takes a flat low IQ to work there, but remember, THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING.
Cha
(297,290 posts)14. I'm Proud of All You Protesters in Portland, Ore!!
Gracias bigtree
Maybe when the ICE guys get home they'll reflect and think about what they said?