FBI: Same Old Hooverian Bullshit

The FBI is back to its old tricks of election interference and going after their perceived political enemies.

And yes, they say it's Mullen's goons, not Patel's. Makes no difference, a federal goon is a federal goon.

Federal agents on Monday searched the home of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar as part of a criminal investigation, a startling escalation that brings renewed scrutiny to the frequent target of Trump administration derision in the final weeks of her reelection bid.

The search of the Minnesota congresswoman’s home was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations agents, said two people familiar with the matter, who were not authorized to publicly discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. The nature and scope of the investigation were unclear, though Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said last month that there was an “ongoing investigation” and “something’s going to happen.”

Really? Three weeks before the election they do this bullshit?

This is nothing but election interference and overt racism on the part of the Trump Administration. It's the same sort of shit that Putin is known for:

And you can bet rather heavily that any "evidence" that they claim to find was forged and planted by DHS. There is no daylight between a DHS agent and a FSB agent.

If you work for DHS in any capacity, from Secretary through agent to file clerk, you are part of a Constitution-shredding fascist organization.

If you don't like being labeled a "fascist" or a "Nazi", don't work for fascists and Nazis.

The Evil of the Trump Administration

They destroyed a 7,000 year old geoglyph in order to build his fucking wall. It was probable the oldest structure in the hemisphere, but they just bulldozed it in DHS's haste to get the wall built.

Another ICE Shooting

ICE shot another man today.

One thing to keep in mind:

DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING SAID BY DHS OR ICE!

One constant in prior shootings has been DHS and ICE lying about what happened: Calling their victims terrorists, claiming assaults that didn't happen, justifications that were fraudulent.

DHS and ICE lie. And that you can take to the First National Bank of Cha-Cha and make a deposit.

Anthropic is Evil. Prove Me Wrong.

Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a “pre-crime” approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs.

So what they are doing is reporting people who don't like Anthropic to the cops without providing any evidence that they have done anything wrong.

Anthropic is proving the truth in the supposition that all corporations are sociopathic entities.

Anyone who is hassled by the cops because of anything to do with AI needs to file a freedom of information request, sue them if necessary and then sue the pants off of Anthropic.

Meanwhile, Anthroic isn't the only entity adopting a "pre-crime" approach. Those jackboot-wearing fascists at the Border Patrol are doing the same.

DHS is the American Gestapo

They have been pushing the edges of the law to illegally serve administrative subpoenas on tech companies to get the records of reporters and others. The tell is, whenever someone is able to contest the subpoenas, DHS folds rather than fight things and take the good chance that a judge will slap their dicks for being fascist douchebags.

It's nothing new, really. DHS has been an authoritarian police state organization since it was esablished under Chimpy McFuckwit. Nothing about DHS would suggest that anyone who works there has any familiarity with the Constitution of the United States. In short, everyone who has been worn into a DHS position and swore to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution should be charged with perjury or, at least, lying to a federal official.

That ICE or Border Patrol Agent Walking Your Streets May Be a Sex Criminal

Rapists and pedophiles would seem to be welcome in both agencies.

A new report by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance, released today, pulls back the curtain on a stunning level of sexual criminal behavior within ICE and CBP. Out of 152 cases of identified immigration officials or contractors accused or convicted of criminal behavior, 131 of them, or 86.2 percent, were charged with sex offenses. Seventy-eight of them—51 percent of the entire cohort—"committed sex offenses against children—the single largest category on the list," the report states. Cases involving a CBP officer, the report finds, "are more likely to involve underage victims" than those of an ICE officer. Yet fully half of ICE officers accused or convicted of sex offenses (12 of 24) had a minor as their victim.

And, again, these are just the agents known to be connected to such crimes. Indictments are rare. ICE and CBP officers who commit sex crimes are at the intersection of two different strains of impunity: the impunity typically extended to men for violence against women; and the impunity typically extended to officers of the law.

Rapists and child abusers are tolerated within their ranks. Almost half of their crimes were committed on the job, including inside their offices. The story has a lot of wrenching detail.

Nothing will change, since our president is also a rapist and pedo.

Daily Reminder

DHS and ICE are fascist organizations trying to persecute people for exercising their Constitutional rights.

No sane person should have any friends who work for either groups. Those who work there should not be employable for any job that heretofore hasn't been done by migrant labor.

And that goes for the FBI, as well. Hell, it goes double for them.

FBI is As Fascist As It Was in the Hoover Era, Now Joined by DHS

Members of community groups and non-profits are outraged by revelations that federal law enforcement infiltrated community meetings and surveilled anti-ICE activists in Minnesota over the winter.

Minister JaNaé Bates, co-executive director of the non-profit Faith in Minnesota, said sending undercover federal agents into meetings at places like churches and union halls is a “horrific” violation, because those are spaces where people safely gather to exercise basic rights like free speech.

“It is something that the American people and Minnesotans absolutely shouldn't tolerate,” Bates said. “Nothing is normal about departments being weaponized against people who are doing what Minnesotans do: love their neighbors and take care of them, deliver them food, make sure that they're safe.”
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The revelations about widespread surveillance are contained in legal documents released Thursday as part of a motion for discovery in the case of 15 Minnesotans charged with felony conspiracies tied to anti-ICE protests.

The incomplete reports show federal agents scanning license plates outside protests and compiling personal information on people as part of a program they called Operation Puppet Master. The program was apparently intended to find what the government described as "violent opportunists," but undercover agents seem to have focused mostly on meetings in church basements and public protests. The federal government also subpoenaed financial records from local nonprofits and labor unions they saw as supporting anti-ICE efforts.

This is the same authoritarian bullshit that the FBI pulled during the 1960s. Doesn't matter if you have a Constitutional right to protest, the FBI and the DHS is going to put you under a microscope. Note that their agents tried to gin up "direct action", but the people of Minneapolis didn't take the bait.

None of these birds should be allowed to function in a civilized society. They are our Nazis and they should be ostracized.

Protest the Feds and You're a Domestic Terrorist

That is, essentially, the view of DHS and ICE. Even observing a protest is enough to land you in their databases.

They deny it, of course, but there is clear evidence that they are doing that.

ICE, DHS, the FBI (of course) are secret police who regard the Bill of Rights as an impediment to their work of stomping down everyone who opposes the Demented Elderly Orange Rattenanführer.

ICE Goons Lie

And Minnesota might be able to prove it in court and lock one of those fuckers up.

It does seem that when there is a high-profile incident with video footage, ICE/CBP agents are always shown to be lying about what happened. It should be a presumption that a cop from DHS is lying whenever their lips are moving.

Trump's Latest Poseur

Markwayne Mullen, current senator and former owner of a plumbing business, who likes to pretend that he was some sort of special operator, one with no military service and no known training:

Senator Markwayne Mullin had a major meltdown Wednesday as senators from both sides of the aisle questioned him about a supposedly classified mission he traveled on as member of Congress—and in doing so, may have threatened his speedy confirmation vote.

It seems the only thing Democrats and Republicans can agree on is that Mullin’s claims about a classified mission stink to high heaven. During Mullin’s Senate confirmation hearing, Senators Gary Peters and Rand Paul pressed the Oklahoma Republican on his claims about having received combat experience abroad, even though he never enlisted in the U.S. military.

Mullin claimed that he couldn’t disclose any information about the mission unless the senators sought special clearance—but he wouldn’t say from whom or what agency.

Right, because the spook agencies like to send sitting congressmen on classified missions for which they have had no training.

He's just another fucking poseur, a stolen-valor dude who is saying "it's classified" to cover up his lies. Mullen's a loudmouthd pussy who relies on his physical size to bully people.

I have to hand it to Trump: It was a hard task to find a nominee for DHS Secretary who was less-qualified than Kristi Noem, but Trump pulled it off.

Tuberville Set to Reclaim His Crown as the Undisputed Dumbest Man in the United States Senate

President Donald Trump on Thursday fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, after mounting criticism over her leadership of the department, including the handling of the administration’s immigration crackdown and disaster response.

Trump, who said he would nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, made the announcement on social media two days after Noem faced a grilling on Capitol Hill from GOP members as well as Democrats.

Whether or not Mullin's going to take Noem to the nearest gravel pit is probably an unfair question. So will be asking what Mullin's going to do with Noem's Flying Fuck-Pad.

Given all of the questions surrounding cozy insider deals that were mentioned in this week's hearings, in a more just administration, Noem, Lewandowski and others would be well advised to hire good criminal defense attorneys. But that won't happen until 2029, at the earliest.

But the main reason may be that Noem has managed to take the thing Trump was most popular on, immigration, and turn it into a negative issue for polling. And we all know that Trump tracks the polls almost as closely as he track the stock market.

A Bit of Trigger-Happiness

The U.S. military used a laser Thursday to shoot down a “seemingly threatening” drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border. It turned out the drone belonged to Customs and Border Protection, lawmakers said.

Whiskey Pete's boys seem to be a little trigger-happy. My guess is that he's given order to kill first and ask questions later. Because that's the sort of ghoul that he is.

CBP uses Predator (MQ-9B) drones, so that's about $34 million or so that was needlessly blown to bits.

ICE is Still Evil

Truly.

ICE is training its new agents to violate the Constitution and the law.

The criminal trials of ICE/CBP agents that'll start in 2029 will be epic. We can put the top brass in Stephen Miller's cellblock.

Remember: Everything Border Patrol and ICE officers Testify to In Court Are Lies

Cases brought against protestors are falling apart because ICE agents keep lying on the stand. The term is "testilying" and, of course, Trump's Legal Dept. won't hold them accountable.

The statute of limitation for federal perjury is five years, so it's possible we'll get around to locking up those lying fuckers.

Anyone Who Believes DHS's Lies on This Airplane Has Rocks For Brains

An executive jet the Department of Homeland Security has told the White House’s Office of Management and Budget it needs for immigrant deportation flights and Cabinet officials’ travel features a bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar, according to images of the aircraft obtained by NBC News.

DHS recently began leasing the Boeing 737 Max 8, which DHS officials have described as a luxury jet, but now Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking approval from OMB to purchase it for $70 million, according to two DHS officials involved in the request. ICE told OMB that it would be used for deportations and travel for Cabinet officials, the two officials said.

Anyone with a smidgen of sense will know that that airplane will make, at most, one flight with a few deportees so DHS can claim that's what they use it for.

There's only one "Cabinet offical" at DHS. This airplane is her personal flying fuck-palace so she can screw her boyfriend's brains out beyond the prying eyes of everyone.

ICE Concentration Camps

Department of Homeland Security plans to purchase and operate mega warehouses to use as immigration detention centers are raising concerns among lawmakers, local residents and government contractors in the running to operate them.

Concerns about utilities, labor, removing large buildings from local tax bases, I get that. But, to my thoughts, those are petty concerns.

First, let's face the fact: Those warehouses are roofed-over concentration camps. DHS likes them because they are completely out of sight. The evil fuckery that goes on is largely undetectable. But it's not as though we don't know what is going on. Bad food, poor conditions, lack of medical care, denial of basic rights, those are all known knowns. Anybody in this country who is not aware of those facts is as culpable as the Germans who didn't pay attention to the smoke and the stink from their concentration camps.

Second: Fair notice to the people who are signing up to run and work in the DHS Gulag Achipelago: The rest of us will know who you are. You may be called to account, legally and/or socially, for doing that work. You will be regarded, for the rest of your lives, as the American analogue to the Black-and-Tans, thugs who were poorly-trained than and are now. Having worked for ICE will be regarded by the majority of people as something akin to having done time for serial child abuse.

Third: To the companies and contractors, you will not be regarded kindly. Working for you will be a badge of shame. You will be as well-regarded as a company that processed dead puppies for their fur. You can change your name to Princess Sparkle's Hospitality Services, but just like Constellis Services, we will know who you truly are and what evil you did.

Under Miller's Thumb, ICE is Even Stupider Than Before

They deported (or allowed to self-deport) a suspect in an armored car heist who was out on bail. At an immigration hearing, ICE offered to let the guy leave the country and, looking at a decade or more in prison, he grabbed that deal with both hands.

This happened because Pee-Wee German is so focused on making his numbers that he cares little about anything else. Dog-lovers should count themselves lucky that he's not deporting their Chihuahuas.

Vengeful and Racist Describes Miller, Noem and the DHS to a Fucking T

The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family. The 5-year-old returned home this week after he was detained with his father on Jan. 20 and sent to a detention center in Texas.

The Department of Homeland Security filed a motion Wednesday to expedite deportation proceedings in the family’s case, said immigration attorney Danielle Molliver with Nwokocha & Operana Law Offices.

A hearing is scheduled for Friday, although Molliver is requesting more time to respond. She said she thought the motion was "retaliatory."

There is not a shred of doubt about it: This is retaliatory. The attention surrounding Liam Ramos and his family has been a great embarrassment to Demented Fat Nixon's fascists and they want to do something back. It's how he works, vengeance über alles.

Dementolini told everyone that they were going to deport the criminals and the worst of the worst. But that's a lie and has always been a lie. The "Trump whisperer" said as much:

And DHS said it out loud: They want to deport everyone who isn't white:

DHS is buying up old warehouses for use as hidden concentration camps, where they can house and abuse people theyve grabbed up.
The Right is made up of good little Americans, who turn their backs on the horrors that the people they elected are perpetrating. After this is over, maybe the local officials will be made to tour the buildings, like the mayor of Ohrdruf, who shot himself after seeing the horrors he tried so hard to deny existed.

Remember this: In 1945 and 1946, we hung a lot of Nazis. We can do it again in 2029-30.

Another Kavanaugh Stop of a Brown Person

A woman who’s a U.S. citizen needed medical help Thursday, Jan. 29, after federal agents pulled her from her car after demanding to see her “papers,” one of the state’s largest unions said Saturday.
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At around 11 a.m. Thursday, Maria was driving alone to take care of a rent payment and buy a cake for her grandson when she noticed she was being followed for several blocks by an unmarked vehicle that did not have a license plate, SEIU’s statement said.

Maria had been driving around northeast Salem, according to Latinos Unidos Siempre on social media.

The vehicle pulled in front of her and stopped, while another parked behind her. Three men and a woman exited the vehicles wearing vests saying “police,” and one “banged on her window, demanding that she show them “papers.” SEIU said.

“When Maria did not immediately respond, the agents shattered her car window, forcibly removed her from the vehicle and threw her to the ground, causing numerous injuries,” the statement said.

As she was on the ground, the agents dumped out her purse, found her U.S. passport and left the scene, according to SEIU.

That is a classic Kavanaugh Stop: Jerk up a nonwhite person, abuse thm a bit and then depart.

Meanwhile, ICE harassed a woman whose only offense was observing them. They jumped out of their rental SUV in a move that resembled a carjacking and then grabbed her, when she was only exercising her Constitutional rights. If you look at the video in the story, you will see that one of those pseudo-cops steps in front of her car, presumably to try and get justification to murder another American citizen.

To quote one of the commenters here:

When you recruit for brutality, and your pool of recruits are all the cops that are one step from being tossed out of their police force by a review board, and your push to increase your forces causes you to lower your standards and rush the pre employment investigation, can you expect any different outcome?

Add in telling your officers that they are unaccountable for their actions and letting them hide their faces and wear no identifying marks or numbers and this is what you get.