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Our local officials whom we depend on to keep our communities functional and safe apparently are unable to deter the unconstitutional detention/imprisonment of American citizens. It has been shown that Justice Kavanaughs assertion that detention is immediately terminated upon proof of citizenship and absence of an arrest warrant is just another deflection of our constitutional rights.
As a 74 year old white male born and raised in Florida (not that I considered that to be a privilege), I feel that I shouldnt have to produce my papers on demand. Apparently in todays society, taking a walk around the block without identification is risking zip restraints followed by indeterminate detention. This state of kakistocracy has to end SOON.
Show me your papers old man. Seig Heil!
Peace ☮️

usonian
(21,090 posts)You are (we are) almost Black now.
Black Americans are just plain shot and killed for doing so.
White privilege? not much, but beats being summarily executed.
LetMyPeopleVote
(170,621 posts)
BurnDoubt
(1,082 posts)It's only a matter of time.
Martin Eden
(14,914 posts)Known as ICE.
aggiesal
(10,356 posts)tblue37
(67,219 posts)Nasruddin
(1,121 posts)See that you remember it
GoodRaisin
(10,551 posts)aggiesal
(10,356 posts)I'm Latino (Papeles por favor). We Latinos are guilty until proven innocent.
I now carry my Passport Card with me whenever I leave my house.
I never had to do this in my lifetime.
How free is that?
bsiebs
(881 posts)aggiesal
(10,356 posts)The Passport card is only used to enter the U.S. from Mexico or Canada. Entering from any other country requires the real Passport.
Since I live 7 miles from the Mexican border, it's very handy so that I don't have to carry my real Passport into Mexico.
Anyone with a real Passport can request it.
I recommend getting one.
bsiebs
(881 posts).. Im in Los Angeles and am an older white guy, so probably not going to be carded by ICE. I just dont trust them to follow the law. I bleed for my Latino brothers and sisters stay safe.. we need to all fight to end this nightmare.
aggiesal
(10,356 posts)Attilatheblond
(7,370 posts)Then Trump has his excuse to flatten us all. It won't stop until the Miller/Theil mob is removed from power.
NNadir
(36,666 posts)He's a thug.
spudspud
(617 posts)But Democratic leadership needs to make sure that there are legal repercussions for all these Brown shirts. You can't keep giving evil a pass every time, just to "go along to get along." They'll just come back worse everytime.
Attilatheblond
(7,370 posts)The most dangerous criminal gang in the US is the one Trump unleashed and pays lavishly from OUR treasury.
spudspud
(617 posts)timms139
(400 posts)up and someone like Vance gets to the whitehouse and pardons them all .
slightlv
(6,629 posts)were ever school age kids. Nor are they 'parenting' without child abuse.
Parents, especially know the routine by their kids. The kids think they are master manipulators... when actually the parents can see right thru everything... but just not knowing how to effectively deal with it.
I know if I'd acted up as a kid, I'd have gotten a whipping from my mom while she was screaming bloody murder at me... followed with the admonition to 'just wait until your dad gets home.'
I was a good kid... well mannered, intelligent, and book smart. The 'dad' threat never materialized; my dad would say something to me followed my something funny and we'd both sit there and laugh. THAT would tick my mom even more!
Some things can only be learned from the consequences of the action. These magas are used to having trump bail them out, they don't think they'll ever have to pay the piper.
lame54
(38,532 posts)When someone with a MAGA hat shows up to tell you to get out because your house is now theirs
BeneteauBum
(230 posts)If the eviction day ever arrives, Ill open all the seacocks as I leave.
Peace ☮️
Another Jackalope
(127 posts)And the FBI is stepping up to the role of the Gestapo.
Good luck and good organizing from Canada.
liberalgunwilltravel
(947 posts)Is rather than citizens presenting their papers they are going to start presenting their AR15s, Mini14s, Glocks, Sigs, Colts, S&Ws, Rugers, Ithicas, Remingtons, Barettas, Barretts, Savages, Brownings, Marlins, Springfield Armories, and whatever other weapon they can get their hands on. That's a sad reality as to where we are headed unless the coward Republicans in Congress and the courts stand up to the fascist. And that will lead to unnecessary deaths and suffering. And it's just what the Nazis want to happen. But once it does, there's no telling how things will end. How did we become such a stupid nation?
jgmiller
(649 posts)Sadly it will end when he orders his goon squad or maybe a MAGA military commander to open fire on a large group of protestors who are white. when the GOP is becomes more afraid of the minions their monster has unleashed than the monster they supported they will turn on him but it will require the monster to injure and kill a lot of innocents and maybe over multiple incidents.