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Mark Hubert's avatar

As the Nazis took over,

The people only thought

These morons can't be real.

Bob Fett's avatar

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Anthony Allen's avatar

Somebody at DHS watched that episode of The West Wing and told Mark: "hey! you know what would be cool?"

At any rate, as Luis Gustavo Núñez Caceres, Geraldo Lunas Campos, Víctor Manuel Díaz, Parady La, Renee Nicole Good, Luis Beltrán Yáñez–Cruz, Heber Sánchez Domínguez, Alex Pretti could confirm, were they alive, ICE has ALREADY declared war.

Ken Kovar's avatar

The arrows and the olive branch’s will be switched in the next administration 😎

Laura's avatar

Abolish DHS. I've said it before and I'll say it again – the destruction of our civil liberties and patriotic inheritance as Americans is coming from this post-9/11 department of horror. They had to set up extralegal jurisdictions and invent new thought crimes in order to make We The People the enemy of the state.

Chris D's avatar

“Those who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.”

~ Óscar Romero

Ken Klippenstein's avatar

My mom is from El Salvador!

Chris D's avatar

Oh wow. That quote has been my Substack “bio” since I’ve been on here. His journey in life has a lot of parallels to mine (hopefully mine doesn’t end how his did 😬)

Connie Phillips's avatar

Disgusting ‼️🤬

M.K. Bess's avatar

They have no problem going after Americans and calling it war, unlike with Iranians, because Americans lack Shaheds.

Han's avatar

Just subbed to say keep doing what you're doing Ken you are an important source of news for us all

ziguelito's avatar

NSPM-7 didn't even provoke a strongly worded letter.

Amrita B's avatar

Any donation options besides GoFundMe? I'd contribute a bit more, but I don't usually use GoFundMe and founding upgrade definitely is too steep for me.

Ken Klippenstein's avatar

No but I could set one up - which alternatives do you recommend?

Amrita B's avatar

A P.O. Box snail mail address would be helpful, it that isn't too expensive to maintain. Or, perhaps an option to take a monthly charge out of a checking account -- and that doesn't go through GoFundMe?

Catherine Martinez's avatar

The war for these yokels is at home after all. They are still trying to secure their legitimacy. They never will. In the two grinding years we have left of the Trump misadministration I am concerned with how much force they are willing to use here at home, especially since the Dems, another fake political party, have clearly decided to let him stay in office.