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ancianita

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4. The Atlantic hasn't an inkling about ICE. To be maskless would require honesty. What about Noem or Homeland is honest?

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2025, 02:09 PM

Jul 2025

NOTHING.

The dreaming Atlantic needs to pay attention to the reality it faces. So does the author, Brandon del Pozo, especially because

From 2011 to 2013, I commanded the New York City Police Department’s 6th Precinct...

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Del Pozo and The Atlantic want to examine the democratic trainwreck. At the same time Pozo and The Atlantic know full well that this administration has no intention of meting justice and due process, they dream that it could. Trump, Noem, Homeland and ICE cannot, will not, and need not do any such thing.
Pozo and Atlantic have to face that who they describe who they are:

Armed, masked men appear sinister, even predatory. Beyond obscuring the facial expressions we use for cues about whether a person is a threat, masks are a marker of criminals looking to intimidate their prey while avoiding identification. This is why the ski mask is a cultural trope of the armed robber or terrorist.

The felon dictator, Noem, and their Homeland ICE Gestapo refuse to do anything else but terrorize the public.

This article doesn't reveal anything to the American public beyond NYC something the public doesn't already know -- that the rest of America is not NY, and is neither safe nor protected by NYPD.
Yet the article strongly implies that Americans would be as safe as that woman because some NYPD commander said so.

So what. Even if Pozo wants portray what good, honest professional policing looks like, so what.
Claims of shoulda/woulda/coulda don't help. This article does little to nothing to help Americans RIGHT NOW.

As Obama would say, COME ON!