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His father, Wilmer Gutiérrez, told Documented: “I feel like my son was kidnapped.”
That's because he was.
Not just that. He's most likely going to die because some nazi piece of shit thought they might as well arrest him, because he's brown. This is only the beginning, and it's going to get a fuckload worse until they get the same treatment.
History repeats itself.
Those who study history are doomed to watch as everyone else repeats it.
The fourth box of liberty must be opened.
I'm really hoping for a future where we have Nuremberg-style trials for these Nazi fucks.
More proof that if you look too brown for Trump's liking, it's off to El Salvador for you. We need to start compiling a list of these people who were "mistakenly" deported and essentially sentenced to death with no due process or recourse.
This is no longer hyperbole. We are now living in a world where you could leave your house to pick up your kids from school or something and end up in a South American prison literally before your family even has enough time to realize you're gone, only to find that the only answer they're going to get from the US government and our legal system is "Too bad, so sad, we fucked up, sucks to be you. Next time try being less brown."
Remember, this started with deporting "the illegals". You know, rounding up the low-hanging-fruit that are sitting in prisons waiting for their trials, hearings, or whatever. Then Trump realized, "Hey, why stop there? Why not just go after everybody I don't like?".
And he's already talking about doing this to US citizens. Which means very soon, it's not just going to be the brown people. And by "very soon", I mean I fully expect a US citizen to end up in El Salvador by month's end. Probably white.
Dont be ridiculous
They won't be white
How confident are you in that statement?
The first one’s probably won’t be. But I don’t think it’s too far off. I expect the first ones to be some random non white people who commited some indefensible crimes, or at least are accused of doing so. I wouldn’t be surprised if they go for people with terrorism charges so the next batch can be accused of terrorism as well to make the leap seem smaller. That they now define vandalism against tesla as terrorism will just help murky the waters to make the life sentence without judge or jury seem more palatable than it is every step of the way.
The men who actually go and arrest those people are individuals who individually decided to do what they knew was the wrong thing, when it mattered and it was all on the line.
Last time I checked “just following orders” didn’t fly as an excuse in Nuremberg.
It's going to get a lot worse because now they know that they are able to deport/jail literally anyone without facing any resistance. If a case gets too big on the media, they can shift responsibility around in a circle, e.g. USA says it can't do anything, El Salvador has to do something. And El Salvador says sorry can't do anything. And so nothing is done, both USA and El Salvador get what they want and the justice system and the victims can't do anything.
This will soon become routine because they will expand their list of "unwanted" persons constantly. First "gang members" and "criminals", then sexual and other non-criminal minorities, then non-criminal political opposition, then potentially everyone who's not super loyal to the fascist administration (aka cult).
What worries me is how fast it descends into madness. Any innocent American citizen should probably sooner, rather than later, be prepared to fight for themselves and their loved ones against injustice, because there might be no one left in the system doing it for them when the system itself has become unjust and/or dysfunctional. I hope that you somehow manage to turn the wheel around but when looking at the speed of Project 2025 and the Trump administration becoming increasingly more vile, I don't think there's much time left. Fascism is growing at insane speed, fueled by disinformation/propaganda and fake news on the web and social media, and backed by obscenely rich oligarchs who never really liked the previous government and laws anyway.
And this is all happening in a time when humanity should work together, rather than continue fighting among themselves. Instead, humanity chose the worst path forward possible, the path which accelerates the problems and has no solutions at all. So now we don't have anything against climate change and this will cause massive problems and completely new wars world-wide over land, food, water. And it's not far out. If you're young today, you'll probably live to experience it. It's probably the right time to prepare for the worst and adjust to a pre-apocalyptic mindset. Because we're definitely not solving this if we can't even solve fascism in Western democracies in 2025.
Watching that press conference with the El Salvador Hitler was infuriating. Bondi says its up to El Salvador, El Salvador says its up to the US, and both throw up their hands and say "Oh, Well, nothing can be done."
Literally EVERYBODY in the world needed to resolve the issue of an innocent deportee was in that room. Nobody had to say "That sounds like a pretty good deal, let me speak to my boss for approval," ALL the bosses were right there, and they kept passing the buck to each other.
And yet, not one "journalist" said "Hey, why don't you guys just resolve this right now?"
Just like on Meet The Press last weekend with Peter Navarro on, and she treated him like a legitimate spokesperson for trade and tariffs, without once asking about how his credentials as an expert were totally made up, using a fake expert that nobody else has every seen or heard, and is an anagram of his own name. Its all I would have asked him about, and yet she was more interested in his feud with Skum, than his obvious fraud.
The White House Press Corps and the Sunday Morning Political Talk Shows are supoosed to be our top tier journalists, and they act like their jobs are to provide a platform for the world's worst tyrants to spew their propganda to the world, unchallenged.
Anyone who has the option to leave the Untied States, should
It really does feel like the beginning of the end
It's WW2, but with nuclear weapons and climate change on top, as you said
I have nothing but the purest, deepest hatred for the people cheering for this barbarism.
Just Gestapo things.
This is the same guy trump and the el savador president just said in a meeting was ms13?
Nope, that would be Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Are we having fun yet!?
I don't think I've ever had actual fun here. It's like everything is faked to fit in with fake people.