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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2025
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Yup. This is the kind of situation most average people will underestimate or believe this is just media doing its usual thing of blowing stuff out of proportion and creating drama for views, until they actually find themselves in a scenario of powerlessness against tyrants who waited their whole lives to have this kind of power.
And I don't mean Trump, specifically. I mean down to the ICE field agent who was always trigger-happy but was constrained by law and its consequences. These people now see there's fewer and fewer guardrails preventing their abuses, and they'll take full advantage of it.
Never underestimate human ambition. Both for good and bad. Appreciate your human rights, but don't take them for granted - the only thing protecting such rights is the fear of the consequences of violating them by bad people.
I’m not sure ambition is the right descriptor here. It reads more like an old school bully group of kids taking actions that appeal to their social group. Followed by a fist bump or a snide shrug.
Or the new-ish paramedic who intubates for the point, having never done the procedure before, only to have the patient extubated in the ER after they complete the drop off and leave. That’s not quite right as an analogy, but this ICE behavior seems to exist between this and the bully group of school kids performing for one another.