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LiberalArkie

(15,730 posts) Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:10 PM Jun 2018

Asked what he thinks of people comparing ICE to Nazis, acting director Thomas Homan replied with the

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Asked what he thinks of people comparing ICE to Nazis, acting director Thomas Homan replied with the Nuremberg defense.

The acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday that comparing ICE agents to Nazis is unfair, because “they’re simply enforcing laws enacted by Congress”.

Thomas Homan employed the “Nuremberg defense” – used by German Nazi officials in an attempt to escape accountability with the claim they were merely following orders.

Homan then followed up saying he wished those against the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy would display outrage over crimes committed by undocumented immigrants – employing less charitable language:

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Asked what he thinks of people comparing ICE to Nazis, acting director Thomas Homan replied with the (Original Post) LiberalArkie Jun 2018 OP

Oh yeah, they're just being "good Germans." Raster Jun 2018 #1

Everything Hitler did was legal in Germany. Solly Mack Jun 2018 #2

Nuremberg, My Lai, ICE border agents? Moostache Jun 2018 #3

Was he just following orders? FSogol Jun 2018 #4

They didn't really interview him at the Lincoln Memorial? csziggy Jun 2018 #5

Let's play "Name That Law". sinkingfeeling Jun 2018 #6

He flunked history classes, didn't read, never watched movies, and remarkably he is procon Jun 2018 #7

Looks like he may have been a jock. They have people that do their classes for them. LiberalArkie Jun 2018 #8

Of all the rationalizations to use DFW Jun 2018 #9

Again conflating the regular immigration laws treestar Jun 2018 #10

jeez, can't he recognize a "just following orders" excuse when he hears (or thinks) one? 0rganism Jun 2018 #11

Raster

(20,998 posts)

1. Oh yeah, they're just being "good Germans."

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:13 PM

Jun 2018

Solly Mack

(90,789 posts)

2. Everything Hitler did was legal in Germany.

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:14 PM

Jun 2018

Fucking idiots.

Moostache

(9,897 posts)

3. Nuremberg, My Lai, ICE border agents?

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:14 PM

Jun 2018

Not sure if that's the company you want to keep...I'd aim higher on the ideological hierarchy...

FSogol

(45,532 posts)

4. Was he just following orders?

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:14 PM

Jun 2018

What a colossal shithead.

csziggy

(34,138 posts)

5. They didn't really interview him at the Lincoln Memorial?

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:14 PM

Jun 2018

I have to believe they interviewed him in front of a blue screen and some Faux Noise flunky put the shots of the Lincoln Memorial behind him. Republicans are still claiming to be the "Party of Lincoln" even though Abe would have kicked their butts for what they are doing to the country!

sinkingfeeling

(51,478 posts)

6. Let's play "Name That Law".

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:24 PM

Jun 2018

procon

(15,805 posts)

7. He flunked history classes, didn't read, never watched movies, and remarkably he is

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:03 PM

Jun 2018

qualified to be the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

LiberalArkie

(15,730 posts)

8. Looks like he may have been a jock. They have people that do their classes for them.

Reply to procon (Reply #7)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:05 PM

Jun 2018

DFW

(54,447 posts)

9. Of all the rationalizations to use

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:08 PM

Jun 2018

The one used by the captured war criminals at Nürnberg is probably the WORST one to pull out of their inventory.

treestar

(82,383 posts)

10. Again conflating the regular immigration laws

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:12 PM

Jun 2018

with the terms of detention of parents and children

0rganism

(23,974 posts)

11. jeez, can't he recognize a "just following orders" excuse when he hears (or thinks) one?

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:15 PM

Jun 2018

there are many ways ICE's behavior doesn't resemble Nazis, and relatively few ways that ICE's activities are legitimately comparable to Nazis, and he picks one of the resemblances as a defense? what a maroon!

he could have gone with "get back to me when we've killed a few hundred thousand people" or "so far, zero human skin lampshades" or something like that, but instead he falls back on "just following orders"? maybe he simply doesn't know what the Nazis actually did.

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