Quote of the Day

Why Are Ice Agents Such Cowardly Wusses?

—Will Bunch

I actually have the answer for this one:  It's all law enforcement.

Police have been trained for decades to live their lives and do their jobs in extreme pants-wetting fear. 

They have been taught that if a violent suspect gets within 30 feet of them, they are as good as dead, and that everyone is a violent suspect.

When a cop defuses a situation instead of shooting a mentally ill man dead, they get fired.

This is a natural consequence of a culture of impunity and cowardice.

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I’m dubious myself, but if this Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls of Fire”-inspired technique actually does work, I’ll tell you my first candidate for getting zapped down there: [This refers to a masculinity enhancing treatment that involves shining light on one's own testicles] the performatively male officers who work for America’s alphabet soup of Department of Homeland Security agencies — especially U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its little sister, Homeland Security Investigations.

They are suddenly everywhere all at once — waiting for hours in unmarked cars before pouncing in their blue jeans and untucked shirts, never wearing a badge but almost always donning a ski mask or a full-blown balaclava, even on 80-degree days. They epitomize America’s de-evolution from G.I. Joe to Mort from Bazooka Joe, but with less maturity than that, as they push around teenage girls and octogenarians, and are barely believable when they command, “We are the police!”

These dubious tactics — which are meant to intimidate undocumented immigrants and the American people writ large — instead reek of the agents’ own fear and paranoia. That came to a head last Friday in a shocking incident in which these masked desperados went wild over a lawful inspection of Newark’s new ICE detention facility by three New Jersey members of Congress and the city’s mayor, Ras Baraka.

And then comes the coup de grace:

The mayor was there to check out the facility’s alleged multiple violations of Newark law, but instead masked agents arrested him, charged him with “trespassing,” and detained him for several hours. After the chaotic scene, DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told CNN that the congressional group had “stormed” the ICE facility, that a Congress member had “body slammed” a female ICE agent, and that all three lawmakers might be arrested.

The feds’ promised video didn’t reveal any “body slamming,” but it did show these face-hiding 298-pound weaklings jostling 80-year-old U.S. Rep. Bonnie Coleman Watson. If these craven agents ever formed a hip-hop group, they’d have to call them, ICE Low-T.

(emphasis mine)

The behavior of ICE, and IBP show that where one should have officers who enforce the laws and keep the peace, we have bullies and contemptible craven cowards.

I don't know if ICE should be abolished, but it's clear that at least 80% of these folks should be fired and forbidden from possessing a firearm for the rest of their natural lives. 

ICE is worse than your average cop on the beat right now, but this is where law enforcement is going generally.