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In reply to the discussion: Do you think ICE agents involved in recent raids are just good folks following orders, or scum of the earth? [View all]Grokenstein
(6,245 posts)41. Scum of the Earth, ready to use "following orders" as an excuse.
...which will work out just as well as it did in Nuremberg.
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Do you think ICE agents involved in recent raids are just good folks following orders, or scum of the earth? [View all]
Doodley
Jun 2025
OP
(These goons think they are the AmeriKKKan Gestapo)....... Or conceal name badges. They are on our payroll,...
magicarpet
Jun 2025
#42
Masked, not wearing badgeds , and refusing to give their names or show warrants?
Jilly_in_VA
Jun 2025
#5
Or they would join the police, not as a police officer who wants to help others, but to have authority over others.
Doodley
Jun 2025
#22
They try to dehumanize immigrants. Some can show stoicism, but I'm sure many are broken.
Doodley
Jun 2025
#31
We are just at the start. Who knows how far it will go. Yes, following orders should never be an excuse.
Doodley
Jun 2025
#34
Once you convince someone that other people are not people,that they are a cancer or the like anything is possible.
Eko
Jun 2025
#43
Any ICE or Homeland Security agent with a scintilla of character would have resigned months ago.
TomSlick
Jun 2025
#47
Most of them are imbeciles who don't have any skills other than being assholes
benpollard
Jun 2025
#54
If they think they are looking for drug running gangs and other violent criminals who happen to be brown skinned
Attilatheblond
Jun 2025
#55
The kind of "Good Folk" that will count on "Just fallowing orders" to spare them from conviction.
Ping Tung
Jun 2025
#67
The litmus test: Can you sleep soundly at night knowing what things you have done?
DSandra
Jun 2025
#68