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BeneteauBum

(230 posts)
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 01:40 PM 15 hrs ago

We are not safe in our own homes

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 Kavanaugh’s 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 shouldn’t have to produce my ‘papers’ on demand. Apparently in today’s 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 ☮️

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We are not safe in our own homes (Original Post) BeneteauBum 15 hrs ago OP
Apparently in today's society, taking a walk around the block without identification is risking zip restraints ... usonian 15 hrs ago #1
This raid is scary LetMyPeopleVote 15 hrs ago #2
A hail of bullets before Christmas????? BurnDoubt 15 hrs ago #3
American cities are not safe from terrorist criminal gangs Martin Eden 14 hrs ago #4
ICEstapo. There I fixed it. n/t aggiesal 14 hrs ago #8
ICEholes tblue37 3 hrs ago #25
The new salute is Trump Heil Nasruddin 14 hrs ago #5
Thanks Kavanaugh. Lying fascist asshole. GoodRaisin 14 hrs ago #6
I've been saying that since the beginning ... aggiesal 14 hrs ago #7
...and I hope they honor your passport card. bsiebs 13 hrs ago #11
I would think, that they have to. It was issued by the State Department with my real Passport. ... aggiesal 13 hrs ago #13
I also have a passport card... bsiebs 12 hrs ago #18
ICEstapo. There, I fixed it. n/t aggiesal 12 hrs ago #19
Thanks! bsiebs 12 hrs ago #20
Pure & simple, this violence against people will keep getting worse until somebody drops some ICE monsters Attilatheblond 14 hrs ago #9
Calling the boy rapist Kavanaugh "Justice" is absurd. NNadir 13 hrs ago #10
It not only has to stop. spudspud 13 hrs ago #12
And the PEOPLE need to know how many of these goons were convicted of J-6 crimes, then pardoned by Trump Attilatheblond 10 hrs ago #22
Seconded! /nt spudspud 8 hrs ago #23
Lock them timms139 4 hrs ago #24
Its like none of them slightlv 2 hrs ago #26
The day will come... lame54 13 hrs ago #14
I live on a 32' Beneteau sloop. BeneteauBum 13 hrs ago #15
The ICEabteilung has been set loose. Another Jackalope 13 hrs ago #16
What is coming liberalgunwilltravel 13 hrs ago #17
I guess I was naive to think it wouldn't get this far but now I know how it will end jgmiller 12 hrs ago #21

usonian

(21,090 posts)
1. Apparently in today's society, taking a walk around the block without identification is risking zip restraints ...
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 01:47 PM
15 hrs ago

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.

aggiesal

(10,356 posts)
7. I've been saying that since the beginning ...
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:22 PM
14 hrs ago

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?

aggiesal

(10,356 posts)
13. I would think, that they have to. It was issued by the State Department with my real Passport. ...
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 04:08 PM
13 hrs ago

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)
18. I also have a passport card...
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 04:37 PM
12 hrs ago

.. I’m in Los Angeles and am an older white guy, so probably not going to be “carded” by ICE. I just don’t 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.

Attilatheblond

(7,370 posts)
9. Pure & simple, this violence against people will keep getting worse until somebody drops some ICE monsters
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:26 PM
14 hrs ago

Then Trump has his excuse to flatten us all. It won't stop until the Miller/Theil mob is removed from power.

spudspud

(617 posts)
12. It not only has to stop.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:53 PM
13 hrs ago

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)
22. And the PEOPLE need to know how many of these goons were convicted of J-6 crimes, then pardoned by Trump
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 06:36 PM
10 hrs ago

The most dangerous criminal gang in the US is the one Trump unleashed and pays lavishly from OUR treasury.

slightlv

(6,629 posts)
26. Its like none of them
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 02:36 AM
2 hrs ago

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)
14. The day will come...
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 04:13 PM
13 hrs ago

When someone with a MAGA hat shows up to tell you to get out because your house is now theirs

BeneteauBum

(230 posts)
15. I live on a 32' Beneteau sloop.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 04:18 PM
13 hrs ago

If the eviction day ever arrives, I’ll open all the seacocks as I leave.
Peace ☮️

Another Jackalope

(127 posts)
16. The ICEabteilung has been set loose.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 04:20 PM
13 hrs ago

And the FBI is stepping up to the role of the Gestapo.

Good luck and good organizing from Canada.
17. What is coming
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 04:31 PM
13 hrs ago

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)
21. I guess I was naive to think it wouldn't get this far but now I know how it will end
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 04:48 PM
12 hrs ago

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.

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