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US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025
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Apply the So What principle: So what if I, as a private citizen, make a judgement about people who work for a government office? What's the practical impact for this oh-so-unfairly-maligned hypothetical person you constructed? Nothing.
Now, what's the practical impact when a government agency denies due process to people when it unlawfully detains them? Oh, yeah, that does seem like a real and substantive impact, doesn't it?
I haven't denied anyone's rights to their life or their liberty, so you can take your false equivalency and shove it.
It’s a hypothetical so I’m not sure how you’d measure it but you’re certainly creating a division and fostering an us/them mentality. What purpose does it serve to make a broad statement that’s backed only by emotion and supposition that anybody associated with ICE is a bad person? Other than to make you feel better and more righteous?
It sure does! And we should all of us be against a government that does that. I think I could get on board with a statement like “Any person that knowingly and willingly helps the US government deprive any person of their rights in violation the US Constitution or the law is a bad person”.