Seafury, I don't think it will help. After getting turned down for the military during the Vietnam war as a "politial subversive" because of my long record as an antwar protester, I don't think they will want me.
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Sure. Entirely right for you. The easiest way to destroy a system is from the inside. This is why Trump's selections are so egregiously destructive. Hire a person to run the EPA that simply doesn't believe in environmental protection. A Postmaster that doesn't believe in the mail. A sank regulator who doesn't believe in regulating banks.
So sure. Recruit someone who doesn't believe in the mission of ICE into ICE. Let them wear themselves out hammering a square peg into a round hole. They are required, by law, to pay you for your time. And, unlike the military, there is no 'other-than-honorable-discharge' to mess up your resume. They asked for trainees, you came and bucked the system at every step. Eventually they boot you out. But they pay you, likely cloth and feed you. And every dollar wasted on your training is another dollar not used to cage kids. It would likely be rough but odds are they really can't hurt you, other than make you get into shape, and in the end it's all good.
Trump has made his repeated promise to deport 20,000,000 minorities and foreigners a central feature of his campaign. What does Trump intend to do with them? History provides the key. And what history? The history of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, when another great power, seeking a cheap way to victimize a large part of its population to benefit the majority race, also started a program of mass "deportation" of minorities, in order to provide its majority race with more land, more money, more of everything, at the expense of the others. There was a word for this: lebensraum, or "living space," the notion that the majority race deserved what it craved so much that it justified any abuse of those considered to be lesser humans. Hitler proposed to "deport" Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and eventually all other non "Aryan" residents of the Third Reich. The Nazis soon discovered that deportation was impossible; it was too expensive for Germany, and oth...
I started following not just the far right, but fringe religious and scientific beliefs too, in the late 1960's. At first it was an amusement to follow the likes of the National States Rights Party, or Scientology or General Semantics, or lunatic Evangelical religious groups. But around the time of the Reagan administration, I began to see that these perverted people just refused to give up their malign idiocy, and they were starting to attract funding from rich sociopaths that believed they could personally benefit from encouraging the public to detach its political views from rational thinking. At that time I began believing that what was happening, if it remained unchecked, could result in such a right wing surge in the United States that we could find ourselves facing a fascist takeover that could sweep away everything we thought was unalterable about our country. Well, with a couple of exceptions, no one believed me. I even had an acquaintance who is a psy...
Bill Bratton, the head of the New York Police Department: " Police Feel 'Under Attack' From Federal Government Leaders" You know what, buddy? They don't feel this under attack: Or this under attack: For people who go around our cities confident that they can shoot anyone they want and get away with it, they sure are a pack of pathetic, whiny cowards.
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So sure. Recruit someone who doesn't believe in the mission of ICE into ICE. Let them wear themselves out hammering a square peg into a round hole. They are required, by law, to pay you for your time. And, unlike the military, there is no 'other-than-honorable-discharge' to mess up your resume. They asked for trainees, you came and bucked the system at every step. Eventually they boot you out. But they pay you, likely cloth and feed you. And every dollar wasted on your training is another dollar not used to cage kids. It would likely be rough but odds are they really can't hurt you, other than make you get into shape, and in the end it's all good.