I am old enough to remember when a movie character said "PAPERS PLEASE" it was a universally understood signifier of an evil regime
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Bruno J. Navarro
A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.
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We all know that any cop that wants to stop you can dream up any probable cause they like. I've had it happen to me so many times I've lost count and I'm a middle class white man.
Note that they wouldn't dare to board in Wolf Point.
*raises hand to earpiece*
This just in…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6NPpO4gbeU
He’s definitely what one would call a “costly punisher.”
“Papers? Ah, yes, I have this week’s edition right here.” A la Indiana Jones, preferably with the part where the fascist is flung from the vehicle.
I bet they are striding down the aisles confident that inaction means the approval of all white people in the carriage.
I hope this is a trend.
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/idaho/six-charged-coeur-dalene-town-hall-incident/277-204bf517-c188-401f-a904-7859511da073
I suspect that wouldn't go as far with Amtrak.
"The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order." —source:
https://bit.ly/4lB8n32
As does Let's make a dope deal.
And we're old white ladies with U.S. passports and family trees that include Union soldiers in the Civil War.
I'll have to look at the routes again. I thought our options for Pittsburgh - Seattle were all problematic for one reason or another.
You are complicit if you remain silent.
White people can actually take action here, if you think this is wrong. You're not going to be deported, you're not brown.
and in 2009-2010 the ALEC lobby sold GOP legislatures on using Voter ID as one of a bunch of techniques for suppressing poor, black, and elderly likely Dems' voting rights.
Made it OK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6NPpO4gbeU
Yeah. Okay.
Nice work if you can get it,
And you can get it
If you try...
THESE EVIL ASSHOLES ACTUALLY THINK THEY'RE ON A MISSION!