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[Per]

Damn autocorrect, right? He probably meant "blowing bubbles".

[Per]

I hope the American Gestapo is disbanded asap and all its goons prosecuted for their crimes against the American constitution and against humanity.

You can’t call yourself a Christian and be okay with what they are doing in the streets. The Ice deal is wrong. It is absolutely wrong to treat another human being as though they are less than human.”

This is about an Irish woman who came to the USA 47 years ago at age 11. She is a green card holder, working and paying taxes, married to a US veteran and has a son who is a US marine. Both she and her husband are conservatives and naively voted for trump.

She has been held at a detention centre for four months and may be deported to Ireland.

Her crime? Two bad cheques more than a decade ago, that she later paid in full.

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20 ... detention/

No wonder Europeans fear going to the USA.

How can you be arrested for a misdemeanor that happened twenty years ago?
How could someone who has lived their whole adult life in the USA, is married to and the mother of US citizens and troops to boot, be threatened with deportation over something like that, while the sitting President is a convicted felon who has committed far worse crimes and not facing any consequences over that? Where is the justice?

Also bear in mind that the President ’s wife, Melania, did modelling work while being in the USA on a tourist visa, which is a crime against immigration laws. She later failed to report this when applying for a green card, which is yet another crime.

https://www-visalaw-com.translate.goog/ ... _tr_pto=sc

If they want to deport illegal immigrants who have violated US law, Melania Trump should be a far higher priority than Donna Hughes-Brown. I think you could also factor in that she is married to a convicted felon and draft dodger whereas Donna Hughes-Brown is married to a US veteran who served his country with honour.

[donlever]

1 - Gestapo eh, might be some Jews who take offense especially considering that state of affairs currently. Not sure much mass murdering is taking place.

...journalistic license embellishment I guess.

2 - your "Gestapo" will be around until at least '28. Might have to learn to live with it much like Global warming et al.

3 - you sure it's just cheques (I don't know either way tbh) or is that just what the Irish Times is telling you?

4 - how many times have you posted Trump and convicted felon in the OF....you're approaching Mushyocrity on that topic Per...we get it....you despise Trump and everything he stands for

[Per]

1 - Gestapo eh, might be some Jews who take offense especially considering that state of affairs currently. Not sure much mass murdering is taking place.

Gestapo didn’t do mass murdering. They were a branch of the police who rounded up people (originally mostly union organizers, communists and socialists, later also based on race and sexual orientation) and put them in concentration camps, which I guess you can also refer to as detention centres. The main difference against the normal judiciary system is that there is no trial.

The concentration camps were run by the SS, a completely separate entity, and even though they started putting people in camps in 1933, the mass murder part didn’t start till 1942. For the first nine years they only served as detention centres or work camps. Anyway, the SS are the ones carrying out the mass murders that later happened.

But of course some people died even before the executions began, as disease spread in the crowded camps and they did not always get the medical attention they needed.

For the current camps in the USA the death toll in 2025 is at least 25 people and counting.
Mass murder? Not sure where you draw the line.

https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... yala-uribe

2 - your "Gestapo" will be around until at least '28. Might have to learn to live with it much like Global warming et al.

I have great hopes for the mid terms though, and also that more traditional conservatives within the GOP will start to question the legality and morality of what is going on. Perhaps start asking for habeas corpus laws to be respected.

3 - you sure it's just cheques (I don't know either way tbh) or is that just what the Irish Times is telling you?

You can find it all over the place. Since I know most US sources tend to be considered partial, I figured an Irish source would be better, but here is Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/ice-holding-gr ... g-11012351
Here is some source called Fox19: https://www.fox19.com/2025/10/09/irish- ... sdemeanor/

4 - how many times have you posted Trump and convicted felon in the OF....you're approaching Mushyocrity on that topic Per...we get it....you despise Trump and everything he stands for

Good. I would not want anyone to think otherwise.

[Cornuck]

I find it interesting that the Canadian politics thread is getting more action now - And is more interesting.

It's a shit show down here, everyone knows it, and nothing will change until at least the midterms next year.

And yes, Per - there's a TON of anecdotal stories about overreach and corruption in the DHS. That will not change for a while either.

[donlever]

Yes Per...the Gestapo were part of the process though weren't they.

Or did they not know about the "plans"...

[5thhorseman]

I find it interesting that the Canadian politics thread is getting more action now - And is more interesting.

It's a shit show down here, everyone knows it, and nothing will change until at least the midterms next year.

And yes, Per - there's a TON of anecdotal stories about overreach and corruption in the DHS. That will not change for a while either.

Per may seem to be droning on but the fact it's the shit show that it is is just so continually staggering. It's absolutely surreal. Every single day. And now the pedophilia too; I'm not sure if I can be surprised anymore, but I probably will. That said, I don't want to post on any of this shit anymore. It's exhausting to even follow or care. Thank God I don't live there. I feel for you Corn.

But it will be interesting in a few years when all the lawsuits over the government outreach and actions of ICE are tabulated. And now DOGE has been shut down, a massive failure, likely only tens of billions saved, or even negative savings in some cases, amongst all the data privacy violations.

As you say, Corn, it's great to see the Canadian politics thread see some action and I am enjoying hearing others' views. More relevant to us and a decent discussion.

[2Fingers]

Same with me 5th, the news coming out of USA about something that did/didn't happen is just crazy but now it is just water off a ducks back. Who knows what next week holds.

In Canada, I again don't really read too much into what is in the news, I feel that many media outlets just print stuff a specific way to get key clicks.