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areader's avatar

"They is the same judges. " Tricia McClaughlin

A real sharp gal. No DEI hire, there.

*They are just so sanctimonious.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

Did ICE in Forest Park have a judicial warrant? They need one for private property. If they had one, all they should have had to do is SHOW it to the cemetery workers, who then should have let them in. No need to use bolt cutters. I'm guessing they didn't have one or refused to produce it.

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Charles Bastille's avatar

My understanding from multiple articles is that they did not. I'm sure Smiles will claim they did if asked.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

knowing this regime, if pressed to SHOW it, they will forge one.

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Jamie's avatar

ICE: The SS was created because the Nazis did not trust the army or the police to do the extremist work they wanted done, so they built an extremist militia.

Ahem.

History forgotten is repeating itself.

SS (abbreviation of Schutzstaffel [German: 'Protection Squad']), “the black-uniformed elite corps and self-described “political soldiers” of the Nazi Party. Founded by Adolf Hitler in April 1925 as a small personal bodyguard, the SS grew with the success of the Nazi movement and, gathering immense police and military powers, became virtually a state within a state.

From 1929 until its dissolution in 1945, the SS was headed by Himmler, who built it up from fewer than 300 members to more than 50,000 by the time the Nazis came to power in 1933.

...the SS became an independent group responsible, via Himmler, to Hitler alone. Between 1934 and 1936 Himmler and his chief adjutant, Reinhard Heydrich, consolidated SS strength by gaining control of all of Germany’s police forces and expanding their organization’s responsibilities and activities. At the same time, special military SS units were trained and equipped along the lines of the regular army. By 1939 the SS, now numbering about 250,000 men, had become a massive and labyrinthine bureaucracy, divided mainly into two groups: the Allgemeine-SS (General SS) and the Waffen-SS (Armed SS).

The Allgemeine-SS dealt mainly with police and “racial” matters. Its most important division was the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA; Reich Security Central Office), which oversaw the Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo; Security Police), which, in turn, was divided into the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo; Criminal Police) and the dreaded Gestapo under Heinrich Müller. The RSHA also included the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; Security Service), a security department in charge of foreign and domestic intelligence and espionage.

The Waffen-SS was made up of three subgroups: the Leibstandarte, Hitler’s personal bodyguard; the Totenkopfverbände (Death’s-Head Battalions), which administered the concentration camps and a vast empire of slave labor drawn from the Jews and the populations of the occupied territories; and the Verfügungstruppen (Disposition Troops), which swelled to 39 divisions in World War II and which, serving as elite combat troops alongside the regular army, gained a reputation as fanatical fighters.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/SS

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Randy Kim's avatar

Here’s the latest from the Chicago Pilsen, Little Village, and Back of the Yards community. https://open.substack.com/pub/randykim/p/emergency-episode-reporting-on-the?r=z5drm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Patrick Durack's avatar

Horrifying to watch from over here in Australia. You guys have got to sort yourselves out and soon or all will be lost, and you will probably bring the rest of us down with global economic collapse.

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GreyWitch's avatar

I used to work for a private jail/prison Telecommunications company. The $$$ factor was insane what families were charged for just 15 minutes!!! Money making enterprise for all involved. I even bought SB tickets for my boss for a former NM Governor

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Charles Bastille's avatar

I'm in the wrong business.

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GreyWitch's avatar

That’s what I thought too when I worked there. I am in the wrong business. Gotta bail

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