Replace ICE with TSA in the headline and this could be an article from 2001-2005
in Our Daily Lives
Right… Most of us fly every day. That’s a daily occurrence for sure. It isn’t seeing them at diners or patrolling neighborhoods that affects our “daily lives”, it’s the airports. The place that has been a totalitarian dystopia where we all know we have no freedoms or rights and haven’t for 25 years.
TSA was already one part of doing that
Yup. Although rare, we all have the slight fear of being the one they “misidentified” and get taken back for a full strip search and left alone in a room for hours.
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I thought the police already do that in the US?
The difference between TSA and ICE is like the difference between Paul Blart and Derek Chauvin
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Who are these guys?
Paul Blart:
Derek Chavin (the man he’s kneeling on died as a result of this):
Paul Blart is a fictional mall security guard. Kinda incompetent, excessive sense of self importance, but a good guy.
Derek Chauvin was a real cop who murdered George Floyd by kneeling on him, cutting off his airway until he died.
Paul Blart is a fictional mall cop. Derek Chauvin was an actual cop who is now a convicted murderer for suffocating an unarmed and nonviolent black man on the streets of Minneapolis.
I am not discounting this, but in the early 90s I was traveling abroad and had a layover in the airport in Frankfurt and security was walking around the airport with Uzis. It was weird to see, but that was 35 years ago in a democratic country.
Yep I traveled to Great Britain a few times during “the troubles.” Security was not fucking around.
So how do we resist this training?
Don’t use airports.
I wish my job was cool with me doing that :(
