{"id":7861,"date":"2025-05-10T09:40:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=7861"},"modified":"2025-05-10T09:40:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:40:59","slug":"black-shirted-thugs-of-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/black-shirted-thugs-of-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Shirted Thugs of ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\"><em>First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out<br>Because I was not a Communist.<br>Then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out<br>Because I was not a Socialist.<br>Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out<br>Because I was not a trade unionist.<br>Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out<br>Because I was not a Jew.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><em>Then they came for me,<br>And there was no one left to speak out for me<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">\u2013&nbsp;<em>Confession of Martin Niemoller \u2013 1946<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">No Guardrails<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Yesterday, they came for Ras Baraka, the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey and candidate for Governor of the state.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They came for him because they could.\u00a0\u00a0All of the \u201ccurbs\u201d that control Federal government behavior are set aside.\u00a0\u00a0They came for a man standing outside their gate, demanding justice, a clear exercise of free speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.\u00a0\u00a0But they came anyway, because he dared to oppose the Department of Homeland Security.\u00a0\u00a0They came because he called out the Black Shirted Thugs of ICE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The guardrails are intentionally gone.\u00a0\u00a0We can talk about all of the incidentals:\u00a0\u00a0Baraka is a Black man who is outspoken in his opposition to ICE actions in his city.\u00a0\u00a0The Acting US Attorney for Northern New Jersey is Alina Habba, the losing attorney for Trump in the E Jean Carroll civil trial where the former President was fined $83 million.\u00a0\u00a0She has something to prove to her \u201cboss\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Baraka was a great target.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lying Eyes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And if you\u2019re \u201cfrom the other side\u201d (<em>\u201c\u2026I can see by your \u2018hat\u2019, my friend, you\u2019re from the other side\u2026\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<em>If you know, you know &#8211; thanks, Stephen Stills<\/em>) your sources of information say that Baraka and two US Congressmen &#8220;stormed&#8221; the door of a newly opened private prison in Newark.\u00a0\u00a0You need to believe you own eyes and watch the videos.\u00a0\u00a0Baraka was standing on the sidewalk, in \u201cfree, public\u201d space, when twenty or more Black Shirted Thugs of ICE (and the more mysterious HIS) surrounded him, physically shoved the Congressmen aside, and took the Mayor into custody.\u00a0\u00a0They manhandled him into handcuffs and an unmarked car, and whisked him off to another location.\u00a0\u00a0It doesn\u2019t get any more \u201cthuggish\u201d than that.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cGodwin\u2019s Law\u201d states that in an argument, the more heated the discussion, the more likely one side will compare the other to Hitler.\u00a0\u00a0The corollary to the law is that the side that mentions Hitler first is the \u201closer\u201d, as using Nazi comparisons are beyond inflammatory, similar to calling the other side profanities.\u00a0\u00a0But it\u2019s difficult to avoid referencing the dreaded Nazi secret police, the Gestapo, when referring to the current actions of the United States government.\u00a0\u00a0There\u2019s another old saying (not a \u201claw\u201d).\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIf it walks likes a duck, and quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck \u2013 it\u2019s a duck.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Terror is the Point<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Sure, Baraka was only held in custody for a few hours. But keeping him an imprisoned martyr wasn\u2019t the reason for the arrest anyway.\u00a0\u00a0The exercise in brute force, the terror and intimidation, that was the point.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s the same \u201cpoint\u201d that ICE has been making since Trump took office.  They burst into Columbia University housing without a warrant to imprison Mahmoud Khalil in a Louisiana detention facility. And they arrested a sitting Wisconsin state judge in her courtroom.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not the \u201clegal\u201d outcome; it\u2019s the action itself that tells Americans:\u00a0\u00a0don\u2019t oppose us.\u00a0\u00a0We will find you and take you away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Tom Hohman, the brutish \u201cCzar of Immigration\u201d is boldly clear about the subject.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIf you stand in \u2018our\u2019 way, we will arrest you\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0And Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, (boy, the Godwin\u2019s Law reference fits him to a tee) goes even farther. He suggests \u201cthey\u201d might suspend the writ of habeas corpus.  That&#8217;s the Constitutionally enshrined right to know why the government is holding you.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our America?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It&#8217;s the same terror tactic that was used to send \u201cgang members\u201d to a hell-hole prison in El Salvador.\u00a0\u00a0Even if they were gang members, (and we don\u2019t know, because that was never adjudicated in Court, that Habeas Corpus thing) we should be talking about cruel and unusual punishments, the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But for a fortunate Court order, another set of migrants were to go to a Libyan jail last week.\u00a0\u00a0Homan\u2019s been \u201cprospecting\u201d for prisons in the worst situations in the world, from Sudan to Uganda to Rwanda.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s all about fear.\u00a0\u00a0Ain\u2019t that America?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It&#8217;s not.\u00a0\u00a0Instead, it\u2019s an image of America that relishes the historic mistakes in our past.\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cRed Scare\u201d of the early 1920\u2019s, when \u201cPalmer Raids\u201d, named after the then US Attorney General, rounded up supposed Communists and deported them.\u00a0\u00a0Or \u201cMcCarthyism\u201d of the 1950\u2019s, when a politician\u2019s lies of rumor and innuendo were used to \u201cblacklist\u201d thousands from government and private industry. \u00a0Or, the worst, the internment camps of World War II, where born American citizens, among others, were placed in confinement because they were of Japanese ancestry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">They came for a judge last week.&nbsp;&nbsp;They came from the Mayor of a US city yesterday.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">If we don\u2019t speak out\u2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Guardrails Yesterday, they came for Ras Baraka, the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey and candidate for Governor of the state.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They came for him because they could.\u00a0\u00a0All of the \u201ccurbs\u201d that control Federal government behavior are set aside.\u00a0\u00a0They came for a man standing outside their gate, demanding justice, a clear exercise of free speech under &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/black-shirted-thugs-of-ice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black Shirted Thugs of ICE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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