2w ago

ICE ordering fleet of 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian firm

ground.news ICE ordering fleet of 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian firm

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has earmarked millions of dollars for a bulk order for 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel that are built to resist bullets and bomb blasts.

Eh … now you don’t know what to think huh? 🤔🤪😆

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Okay Canadian assembly techs: you have an opportunity to do something extremely funny

Fuck ICE

What, Elon’s cyber trucks weren’t good enough for them?
- Cybertruk bulletproof stainless steel was proving to have intermittent swiss cheese events. The unpredictability knocked them down on the procurement scores.

ICE going to pay tarrifs for steel and alum, then tarrif again for vehicles.
- Except it's not ICE, it's taxpayers. And because enough of them are raging racist assholes he now live in a racist state . Fuck fascists
  
  Don't worry, they're going to make Mexico pay for it all.

Dear Canada,
Please don't.
Sincerely,
-Every American
- Our PM is a feckless neoliberal stooge…Banker. He's basically a northern Democrat…or a bit to the right.
  
  He doesn't seem feckless to me.
- Dear Canada,
  Add an exhaust port failure point
  Thank you
  
  Into the driver's cabin.

Why not include the company name? We should be publicly shaming any companys supporting the facist regime nextdoor
Roshel (also known as Roshel Defence Solutions) is a Canadian defense manufacturer specializing in the design, integration, and production of combat-proven armored vehicles; Headquartered in Brampton, Ontario
- Roshel
  The original Hebrew name derives from the word "rahel," meaning "ewe" or female sheep
  Also yes the founder and owner is Israeli.
  
  Of course he is.
- It's included as the third bullet point in the summary.

Eh … now you don’t know what to think huh?
What does this mean?
- It's an old Norm Macdonald punchline from his time at SNL. Op's joking that buying Canadian is good but ICE buying them is bad
  
  Exactly! I thought of Norm when I wrote it, but forgot about it when I read this question. LOL What an amazing joke that was. 3 punchlines ... "you never seen anything like it" LOL.

Hey, fuck you Canada!
I'm a US citizen, and I've seen a lot of canadians complain about the US. But its my turn now. You are helping enable fascism. So fuck you.
That is all.
- Agreed. I'm pretty embarassed to be Canadian at the moment.
- Even a working clock is wrong twice a day.

Oh no, how unexpected. Who would think that the interests of capital and imperialism would take precedent over the wellbeing of the people in Canada?
- How does this affect the wellbeing of people in Canada (except to provide them with jobs?)
  
  Don't sell weapons to people that have threatened you is a generally good rule of thumb
  
  I mean, if it's jobs alone that is a consequence of this deal, I can guarantee you that those jobs are still maintained at exploitational wages. Since it is silly to only think about that, there is also the reality that Canada is subordinated to the US already and its fascist regime has made real threats of violence to Canada. On top of that, Canadians have been detained without cause by this same regime which has taken up disappearing dissidents as an official practice. ICE patrols the 100-mile border zone that Canadians cross every day for work and kinship.
  Canon fodder indeed, chuds love having dudes like you around to fight for them.

A thin silver lining is that Canada's siphoning some of the hyperinflated budget that is meant for a whole fascist concentration camp regime. Now if only we could get the horn to play "chinga la migra" occasionally when pressed...
- chinga la migra
  The song in question. Fuck ICE indeed.
  
  there’s more than one song named that

When I say I want zero trade with the US it includes ICE.
Though if these were subject to a safety recall I wouldn’t complain.

Now WE have the kill switch on THEIR gear !

It's a really small company. They can't produce that many in 30 days unless they have a few sitting around already.
- Canada should block the purchase on human rights grounds, regardless.
  
  I was hoping workers would sabotage them.
  
  We're not going to, the US has our economic balls in a vice.
  There's more chance of a court ruling it unlawful, but that takes time.
- A day and half for 3-4 guys to fit an entire vehicle is nothing.
  
  Yeah, hire twice as many people and you can do 7-8 people outfitting an entire vehicle in two days

Sounds like the good people of Brampton should at the very least stage some protests.

That would be the hard part about working in anything geopolitically relevant. Your government will have to do realpolitik, and you can't reasonably impose your own preferences over top of that and stay relevant, so you end up welding together anti-protester bumpers for the Saudis, or brown guy cages for the Americans. Hopefully all the sales to Ukraine make up for it.

I hope Canada takes the money and tells ICE to fuck off. Or even better, deliver 20 Cozy Coupes painted the LGTBQ+ flag colors

Last time I did research for my blog, there were three armoured vehicle manufacturers in the Toronto area, and highly respected by the world community. That information only surprised people living in Canada.

But you people said you didn't need anything from us...
- djt and maybe his crew said that, not me.

We’ll take your money fascists, but I don’t like that we’re enabling ICE either.

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