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Americans are slowly realizing they're living in a plutocracy
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It doesn't sound right to me. It sounds like a crime...which is what I called it. And as much as they're acting like they have total immunity...they don't.
If there is no legal recourse for people brutalized by ICE, then it is de jure legal for them to do anything they want.
Remember what you said: "It also prevents people like Donald Trump from simply arresting his political opponents, based on nothing more than an accusation of guilt." It demonstrably doesn't prevent him from arresting, or killing, his political opponents.
He can, in fact, arrest his political opponents. He's doing it right now. There's no legal mechanism to stop him.
Ok, so have you just not been paying attention? Or are you just expecting things to happen instantaneously? They keep trying to do the things you say they're getting away with...but they aren't. You just have to keep watching. These things take time...and yes, that means some of what they're doing isn't getting stopped before it happens. But that also doesn't mean they're "getting away with it", any more than when anyone else commits a crime.
Lol, this is Qanon shit now. "Just watch and see! The Storm is coming any day now!"