Trump says CNN may be prosecuted for reporting on app that alerts ICE sightings
Trump says CNN may be prosecuted for reporting on app that alerts ICE sightings
Daily reminder to all ICE agents. By signing up for ICE, you have signed yourself up for a lifetime of fear and criminal liability. There are Nazi concentration camp guards that were tried for their crimes in their 90s. There is no statute of limitations on crimes against humanity. Your names are recorded; your deeds are known. And you will face justice for your crimes. And do not count on a blanket pardon saving you. Crimes against humanity are violations of international law that cannot be pardoned.
They should also remember that murder peaked immediately post WWII in Europe as people got even with their Nazi tormenters.
Those ICE agent would be very upset if they knew how to read
Your optimism can only be admired. However the US has already stated multiple times that it doesn't care about international law and that Americans cannot be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity, or they will invade the Netherlands. The ICC cannot even detain an American. This was during W Bush and his "war on terror".
And then Trump recently reiterated it with a new executive order, imposing penalties and visa restrictions on people even helping the ICC to investigate Americans.
You're assuming the US survives. If the federal government collapses chucking federal agents at the ICC would be a decent way to earn international legitimacy without expending worthwhile resources.
Let's get that list out in the open for all to see.
So many ice agents here on Lemmy
Yes, obviously, but these type of comments are self-defeating and unhelpful. It's more about trying to encourage the circulation of the idea that ICE needs to face criminal accountability. There should be a paragraph on ICE's potential criminal liability in every article about them. People should mention their susceptibility to prosecution on every discussion about them. We should be including the topic of prosecutions in every casual conversation about ICE.
The right wing learned a long time ago that the public narrative matters. If there's an idea worth spreading, then spread it. We need to get the idea of accountability in the public consciousness whenever possible. Otherwise, it's the default instinct of every Democratic politician to try to be magnanimous when they're elected. Liberals are by their nature non-confrontational; they're happy to have people walk all over them. Obama and Biden both refused to prosecute the previous administration and tried to be grand peace makers, and look how that turned out. It will take a lot of public pressure if there's ever going to be any accountability. That's why we need to be circulating these ideas in the Zeitgeist. Yes, obviously this is just lemmy, but there's no need to be such an unhelpful cynic.
The United States provides the best historical reenactment of Nazi Germany ever. Living history in action folks!
Just wait until they add the bonus Great Depression reenactment!
Donald Cuck and his band of children molesters have been obsessed with Hitler forever. We were always a fascist nation, now we are a fascist nation of Nazi cosplayers.
Noem told reporters alongside Trump on July 1 as they toured a new detention center in the Florida Everglades known as
"Alligator Alcatraz.""Alligator Auschwitz."
That's the correct name.
This needs to stick.
It's got like 24 hrs left.
Do we know yet that it's an extermination camp? Because it's not like it's the first modern concentration camp in the US. We've just been calling them detention centers.
I saw a good Dachau-pun name for it, but it might have been so morbid I blocked it out, because I can't remember what it was
I can't believe I'm living though my country's Nazi era. History will not be kind to us. I hate all of this. My sister voted for this and I'll never forgive her.
My entire damned family voted for it... even my closest sibling who had never voted republican in her life... that other side indoctrinated hard... I'm so disgusted, and she even said "I'm so sad ice picked up one of my favorite co-workers!" "And you voted for that" apparently wasn't the comfort she was seeking.
Even if we can finally purge MAGA from our government, and even have it declared a terrorist/hate organization, how do we deal with millions of brainwashed idiots? They aren't going to change their minds easily, and accept that they were conned.
They were conned once, they can be easily conned again.
Dumb fucking removed. Sorry.
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Oh cool, a president threatening to prosecute the press for reporting on something factually correct. Cool cool cool.
Yo Murica - something something, freedom of speech, tyrants & 2nd amendment? - or nah.
🤡
The US needs school shootings in order to defend democracy
The Bible accuses Canaanites of child sacrifice and that led to their judgement and destruction. And these fools think God is going to bless us for letting our children get murdered (and don't even get my started on our hand in the death of Palestinian children).
So, are the democrats and the American people, and all our public institutions, and private industry just going to sit around and let these fascist losers ruin everything, forever? Is that the plan? It really looks like that’s the plan right now.
It makes more sense when you fully understand what people mean when they say both sides.
People who want to argue that point take it to mean "both sides are the same". What it really means is both sides are complicit. It's good cop bad cop. The good cop has to keep up appearances, to sell the illusion of choice and safety. While the bad cop takes all the heat.
And if you want evidence, just look at how things have gone in the last 40 years. Republicans take 3 steps right, democrats take 1 step left. Well, do the math. That's a net result of 2 steps to the right without recoarse. Now repeat for 40 years, and you have a situation where it's literally gotten to nazi america tactics.
The old barometer for how far they've gone is when they undid roe v wade. Now, thats so far in the rear view, that we're at a point where unidentified government agents are kidnapping people on the street, without even confirming they have reason to arrest them, and at times killing them in the process.
Let me repeat that. We're at a point where government officials are now grabbing people off the street and killing them, without so much as a confirmation of their identity.
But don't worry, the democrats are going to wave their fingers in a "no no no" motion, real hard. We'll all be fiiiiiiine! Well, unless of coarse you're brown enough, or just mistaken for an opposing opinion.
Yeah. Both sides.
I have 3 guns and am purchasing a 4th soon. I've added 8 cameras to the perimeter of my home.
I am not going to win, but I'll go down fighting.
When will the madness end?
Rise, rebel, resist!
Comedian turned activist Cliff Cash has a public call to action if you’re interested. He’s asking anyone who can come to Washington D.C. to join him to go to congressional offices this next Monday. It’s likely to not be a silver bullet to all this fascist bullshit but it’s a good fight.
I’m also pretty sure there are similar efforts and protests near you if you can’t make the trip today.
It’s about this app: https://www.iceblock.app/. Download it, use it.
Why TF has this topic been around for hours and has no one posted this? Why is the drama again made more important than the substance? Don’t let the hysteria win.
Here's an ice tracking app for Android called F.I.R.E I saw in a recent reddit post
Download it, use it.
It is apparently restricted to US iTunes accounts only, for some brainless reason. So a lot of people who could potentially benefit from it simply can’t.
The fact it's not available on f-droid makes me think it's a honeypot.
Apple only, no website, is suspect af for an app that requires maximum privacy.
EDIT: maybe just incompetent devs, which is just as bad as the end result will be equivalent to a honeypot.
The website offers an explanation as to why there is no Android version. Basically it's because Android would require them to maintain a database of Android users, which is a security issue if it gets confiscated by the government. They call those privacy concerns "non-negotiable," and suggest Android users but a cheap old iPhone model to use the app.
And they'll bend the knee. Throw some scapegoat under the bus, because this is the new Fascist America.
You chose this, America. Now no one will save us.
How does this make any sense?
Shouldn't they be suing Apple to take it down if they don't like it? I know they just want to weaken press, but it feels like an especially weak excuse.
Don't owrry, he'll file a spurious lawsuit against them soon, which they will immediately settle, in a totally-not-legalized-bribe means of smoothing over the upset.
It's worked for ABC and CBS, why not CNN? Just threaten to pull their broadcast licenses, and accept a settlement bribe.
I suspect CNN won't be the last.
Fortunately CNN isn't broadcast (the C is "cable"). But they'll still probably cave.
Now with his own GeStaPo with a budget bigger than most of the worlds militaries, he can finally eradicate any opposition with ease. Well done, American voters, you got yourself a Führer.
The shitty press enabled this. Let them fall on their own sword.
He's an attention craving blowhard but the cowards cave.
"Will persecute CNN for reporting on ice illegal kidnappings. "
Fixed it.
Trump is a big man baby with mayonnaise for a brain.
But most of civilized society already knows this.
That's like saying they'll be charged with murder, for reporting on murder. These fucking halfwits are just so unbelievably stupid.
Stupid? They’re achieving exactly what they set out to achieve. The fact that they’re doing it while saying illogical things doesn’t change that.
If we allow Dogey America to survive, this won't be a joke anymore. Children will be playing with Alligator Alcatraz playsets.
triangular Lego plates?
Don't give them ideas.
freedom
That sound coming out of China......laughter.
He has gone full dictator.
They*.
The most important distinction.
Bro how much did Desantis pay to get this angle on the header?
Trump is going full Saddam Hussein much quicker than I would've thought. If anyone is curious, please look up what he did as he came to power.
Something something free market
That’s how many lawsuits against the press so far?
Who’s going to do it?
The Trump team can lick ballsacks
Those removed need to expire already.
Soon CNN won't be able to report anything that makes Trump look bad
Go get 'em Trumpie! ABC folded so obviously there is a lot of money to be extorted out there! America!!! /s