The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members, officials said Sunday. Flights were in the air at the time of the ruling.
“But they’re bad people, Ian” you squeal. “They’re gang members. Bad things should happen to them because they’re bad!”
Well, maybe.
Thing is, we don’t know. The government claimed they were all gang members, but the reason countries have checks and balances, something the US once claimed to be proud of, was to be certain there aren’t miscarriages of justice. People accused of a crime are taken to court, where the truth of said allegations are determined so that somebody with power can’t just make assertions and punish people.
Due process. It’s not a panacea, bad shit still happens to innocent people, but it’s one of the safeguards.
Here’s the issue: if the government had proof that all of these people were gang members and that they could be deported illegally, why not go in front of a judge?
There are only two possible reasons:
- They don’t have proof for all of the people, and still want to deport them; or,
- They want to set the precedent that they can deport whoever they want just based on an accusation, without the judiciary having any say.
If you’re OK with either of these things, you are an evil piece of human garbage and stupid on top of that. Such people remind me of Red Staters who voted Trump, knowing about DOGE, then were surprised when Musk and Trump took their jobs and Trump decided to destroy American farmers with tariffs and by taking away their immigrant labor base.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H.L. Mencken
Every right taken from other people will eventually be taken from you. Extraordinary renditions were against non-Americans outside of America, right, so they didn’t matter. When Obama killed an American citizen, well he was a terrorist and he wasn’t in America, so that was OK, right? The people being extradited now are gang members, and not Americans, so it doesn’t matter to you, does it? I mean, we don’t actually know that none of them are Americans are that all are gang members, but you’re a good person, so just like those Trump voters fired by Musk, you’ll be OK.
Right?
Oh, and the Gaza genocide has started up, with confirmation that Trump OK’d it. And that’s just Arabs, right, so it has nothing to do with you and they have it coming or something because they dared fight back, and that’s terrorism when weak people do it.
Right?
Elites who have learned they can get away with genocide would never genocide you.
Right?
As an aside, there is no possible half decent world where America does not lose all its power. Ideally a break up, so that it can never again be even a great power.
May it happen soon.
As for Europe, I’ve written about how they could fix things and reindustrialize, but on a moral basis, it’s hard to think that would be a good thing for the rest of the world, with a few exceptions like Ireland. (Ireland, of course, was the first victim of English colonialism. White niggers.)
My guess is that Europe’s leaders don’t have what it takes to turn Europe arounjd though.
Oh well. *Sound of massive cheers from every country they colonized and enslaved and now lecture on human rights.*