Border czar warns there will be more ‘bloodshed’ unless Democrats ‘shut their mouths’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tom-homan-ice-shootings-democrat-b3015843.html

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ryokimball@infosec.pub · 139 pts · 65d (5 replies)

Jesus fucking Christ. The article is worse than I thought. "Our guys are scared for their lives! Even though we are the ones doing all the murdering, we will have to murder even more of you if you don't start obeying us, though our instructions are clear as mud and we aren't even following our own laws!"

hopesdead@startrek.website · 88 pts · 65d (4 replies)

So basically shut up and let us keep breaking the law or you die.

WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com · 43 pts · 65d

And the law breaking includes making people die. Also don't be anywhere near a live ICE because they might just do things like break into your home and that's your fault somehow.

WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 65d (2 replies)

Well, Americans are fucking cowards so this is absolutely how it will go- and then they’ll die anyway.

Seppo@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 64d (1 reply)
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WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 64d

There is nothing on earth more whiny, hostile, and overly defensive than a white American liberal on the internet being told to back up their stated values with action.

someguy3@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 65d (2 replies)

Ah, "this is your fault" stage of abuse.

“It all goes back to the Dems who want to continually attack ICE and tell people to evade them, tell people don't comply, tell people to resist, and tell people ICE isn’t a real law enforcement,” Homan said. “There's still going to be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted.”

huppakee@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 65d (1 reply)

“There's still going to be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted.”

Obviously never going to happen, but i bet if the Dems did shut their mouth the bloodshed will continue as planned.

lilacintheshade@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 65d

“And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

  • Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, out loud... in public... 126 days before his candidate was elected...
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 65d (2 replies)

There will be more bloodshed until Democratic lawmakers and like-minded people abolish ICE

nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 65d

This.

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 65d

I'm honestly surprised how meek the resistance has been. Would have expected a driveby or two at least somewhere at some point over the last 2 years. Nope! No randos have just gone up to an ICE guy and popped them in the head. Makes sense for Stepford, but ICE in the hood?

Dryad@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 65d (2 replies)

“I’m scared to death because assaults with vehicles are sky high. There’s been a lot of shootings. I’m scared to death that one of these days, our ICE officers aren’t going to be quick enough. The bad guys can be quicker,” Homan told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Wednesday night.

Playing the victim…presumption of guilt…claims with no evidence…yay fascism…

partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 65d

"The bad guys can be quicker,” Homan told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Wednesday night.

"...this is why we have to shoot innocent people dead before they do anything illegal just to be sure ICE is safe". - Homan probably

i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 65d

It was self defense. I got in front of the car and it was slowly moving in my general direction. My legs suddenly stopped working so I wouldn't be able to get out of the way if the car suddenly accelerated and my only option was to preemptively shoot to kill.

riskable@programming.dev · 61 pts · 65d (1 reply)

So he's literally saying the beatings will continue until morale improves‽

CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 64d

No, he's literally saying "the murders will continue"

Full stop.

CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 65d

"Look what you made me do!" -abuser

AshMan85@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 65d (10 replies)

That's a threat and he should be referred to the Capitol police.

RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 65d (9 replies)

You mean his own friends and the people who confirmed him into the position?

AshMan85@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 65d (8 replies)

no idiot, he threatened democrats, who are also members of congress with rights. most importantly police dont confirm anyone lol

RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 65d (7 replies)

And who appoints the Capitol Police board?

AshMan85@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 65d (6 replies)

That doesnt change laws and rights. Go back to civics class.

Fluke@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 64d (2 replies)

You can be in the right all you want, it won't make them obey rules they want to apply to only their detractors.

Ultimately this comes down to force used to enforce the rules, and whether it will be used.

AshMan85@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 64d (1 reply)

Ok sport...

Fluke@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 64d

?

A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 63d (2 replies)

"The law" Is just a set of nice sounding words on some piece of paper. If someone in power gets held accountable its usually because they lost the support of key supporters.

AshMan85@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 63d (1 reply)
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A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 63d

only when the people dont hold those in power accountable. When was the last time ANY american president got convicted of anything? (other than trump)

hose that roll over and give up like you 2 are as bad as the centrists that said this wouldnt happen Nowhere did i mention giving up. I am just pointing out that the entire system is rotten to the core

anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 65d (1 reply)

Victim’s families should use this as evidence they do this on purpose.

Anyone who says shit like this needs ….

AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 65d

... to be about 1 head shorter than they currently are.

Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 65d (5 replies)

Fuck you Homan, you're going to die in a cell in the Hague. This statement will be played back for you at your trial.

Zannsolo@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 65d (3 replies)

No American will die in the hague, in jail maybe but probably not. Even the most leftist president wouldn't give up American sovereignty to the icc.

PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 65d (2 replies)

I’d like to see all these traitors die at the noose or the end of a gun barrel personally

AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 64d

Guillotine would also be acceptable.

I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 64d

And I'd like a puppy that speaks English and shits gold, but I'm not a child who believes in shit that's never going to happen.

AshMan85@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 63d

i prefer an american prison.

SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 32 pts · 65d

The midterms will decide whether it is a troubled peace or a violent war that defines the next era of America.

I will keep speaking, and if it comes down to it, bear arms against tyrants.

razzazzika@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 65d

As if staying silent would stop the killing.

kreskin@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 65d (1 reply)

Looks like a good justification for any interaction with ICE being an exercise in self defense. He just upended ICE's legal basis for being held to be law abiding by any reasonable person. On top of being fascist, what an inept dipshit.

electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 64d

None of that matters.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 65d

This dickhead still has not had consequences for taking 50K in that bribery sting, right?

Anyway, this is some classic DARVO shit right here.

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 65d (3 replies)

Soapbox

Ballotbox

Jury box

Ammo box

cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 64d (2 replies)

That second one is rapidly declining in potential effectiveness

electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 64d (1 reply)

The ballot box is what brought us here. Every election for decades has resulted in more cops and more surveillance.

Nouvellalia@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 64d

We have more cops in America now per capita than nazi Germany had at the height of WWII, and that's including all the gestapo, SS, and military police in the German count. DC has an enforcer with a gun and no consequences for every 60 people.

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 22 pts · 65d

BuT iF wE tAkE aCtIoN, tHeY wIlL use It As JuStIfIcAiOn FoR vIoLeNcE

Ferrous@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 65d (2 replies)

Shout-out to Obama for giving us this guy.

kreskin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 65d

From Homan's wikipedia:

"By 2014, under the Obama administration, Homan began to argue that separating children from their caregivers would be an effective way to discourage illegal border crossings. The journalist Caitlin Dickerson has called him the "intellectual father" of the policy, which he outlined years before the Trump administration adopted it. "Most parents don't want to be separated", Homan told Dickerson. He argued that this makes separation an effective tool for immigration enforcement: "I'd be lying to you if I didn't think that would have an effect."[9]

In 2015, the Obama administration awarded him a Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive."

I cant beleive Obama appointed him and gave him an award after he suggested separating kids from their parents. Just monstrous. Eff you for that one, Barack.

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 65d
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sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 65d (1 reply)

That guy rapes kids. I'd bet money on it.

ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 65d

I can't tell if you're joking or not, but in reality you're probably right. This kind of overt, arrogant, conscienceless disregard for the humanity of others is always just the tip of the evil shitberg they're made of under the skin.

Or to put it another way, a man who does not care about the abuse, torture, and murder of thousands is not going to give two shits about the right of a child to live unharmed. And just as he feels entitled to do what he will to the living bodies of immigrants, he will feel entitled to do the body of anyone else that lacks the power to stop him.

It never fucking ends with these kinds of gleefully evil people: whatever horrendous amorality you see in front of you, there's ALWAYS more where that came from.

fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com · 19 pts · 65d

You made me hit you

ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 65d

So protesting and calling out their crimes and sharing video and making a racket must not be as pointless as some would have us all believe, because Tom Homan himself is desperate to shut it down.

The LAST fucking thing any sentient human being should do is shut their mouth against these murders and crimes against humanity.

Anyone who cares enough to yell, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 64d (1 reply)

His full phrase was

“It all goes back to the Dems who want to continually attack ICE and tell people to evade them, tell people don't comply, tell people to resist, and tell people ICE isn’t a real law enforcement,” Homan said. “There's still going to be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted.

Umm, can we talk about that very last bit?

savvie@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 63d

First Amendment, anyone? Fellow Yanks??

stringere@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 65d (4 replies)

“There's still going to be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted.”

They who, Tom? They fucking who? Because ICE is not a legislative body and cannot enact laws.

Even if he's implying immigration laws enacted by congress, those laws do not have death as a punishment for ANY violations.

Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 65d (3 replies)

It's not even a crime, it's a civil infraction.

NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 65d (2 replies)

What's a civil infraction? Protesting ICE? Letting people know about their rights? 🤔

Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 64d (1 reply)

Being undocumented.

NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 63d

I see. However the threat was against people (Democrats all, apparently) working against ICE. None of their actions are even civil offences.

TheRiskiestBiscuit@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 65d

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 65d

Fuck you Tom Homan, you fuckin' fascist.

Go die.

wizbiz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 63d

Literally trying to TERRORIZE Americans into compliance. Ice is a terrorist organization

NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 65d

Don't forget that we are being run by a mafia-wannabe, and every "protection" demand is also a threat.

This is the equivalent of "It'd be a shame if something happened to your nice flower shop. But if you do what we say we can protect you." And it also may very well be a signal to the lawbreakers in and out of government to demonstrate that the violence will continue. I don't doubt a Proud Boy could see this as a suggestion to shut a Democrat lawmaker's mouth.

sportsjorts@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 63d

Fuck this weeb. Only way you will shut my mouth is murdering me in cold blood like ice does to everyone else fucking Nazi scum.

halfapage@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 65d (4 replies)
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trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 65d (3 replies)

Tom something I think

dwalin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 65d (1 reply)
pivot_root@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 65d

Homan

Name checks out. Humans have the capacity for empathy and understanding. Tom over here can't even masquerade as a real human being successfully.

kreskin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 65d

Tom soon-to-be-tossed-into-a-woodchipper

Corvidae@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 65d

Tom Homan playing Sister Mary Elephant.

TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 65d (1 reply)

I mean, if he'd rather we open a clip on his ass. I'd have thought words were preferable, but if that's what he wants...

care to walk that back so we can try to play nice?

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 65d

Has there been any clips opened?

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 64d (3 replies)

I find I don't need to read Philip K Dick novels anymore, I just watch the world...

nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 63d (2 replies)

Time to rewatch a scanner darkly. I need one of those suits.

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 63d (1 reply)

I'm thinking more of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Albemuth

"The story is set in the late 1960s in an alternate reality of the United States. The country is ruled by Ferris F. Fremont, a psychopathic, paranoid president. Fremont has established a police state in which civil rights have been suspended. Everyone spies on everyone else, coordinated by the paramilitary youth organization FAP (Friends of the American People). Anyone who disobeys is branded a member of “Aramchek”—a communist underground organization presumably fabricated by the regime. "

nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 63d

Ooh. Have to give that a read. A bit depressing given current events tho.

tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 65d

If this guy is married his wife totally has bruises under her outfit.

BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 65d

That tiny Nazi is really going to blame Democrats for the people he and his goons murder?

I bet he blames his wife for her own black eye.

whereitsat@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 64d (1 reply)

maybe this is a radical take, but i think it's funny that they call someone 'the border czar' with a straight face and then he doesn't even look like a hardass. he looks like some random fat dude that's melting from age, wearing a likely expensive suit that gives the impression it's an off the rack ensemble purchased at the men's wearhouse at a steep discount.

a perfect symbol for america.

stop worrying about it. these people already lost.

savvie@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 63d

a mumbling Homan-culus

savvie@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 63d

The Homunculus has mumbled!!!

SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 64d (1 reply)

This is our future. There's no revolution coming. No one will stop it. Get used to it and try not to get turned in by your MAGA neighbor.

nforminvasion@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 63d

Your nihilism does nothing but feed their machine.

Arancello@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 65d (1 reply)

I’ve received criticism from people when i comment that usa people are losing their rights. Then this guy says this! How could i be so stupid! /s

ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 65d

What? I've never run into anyone here who would have argued against that.