Disappearing of US Citizens is Right Around the Corner
If the law doesn't apply to all, no laws apply.
We are all Mahmoud Kahlil.
And Rumeysa Ozturk.
And Badar Khan Suri.
And Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
And Sergei and Marina, two Russians who fled to San Francisco after protesting Russia’s war on Ukraine.
And the other hundreds of immigrants and asylum seekers the felonious regime has disappeared without due process.
It started with them because they were protesting, publishing, speaking out
It started with them because they’re immigrants.
Once fascists identify a defenseless minority to persecute, more follow. There are always more defenseless minorities the strongman decides he must do without.
History tells us eventually everyone becomes a target of a despotic regime intent on eliminating its perceived enemies. It starts with one marginalized group, but most assume they’re safe and ignore it. Then another group is targeted, and, again, most are relieved it isn’t them and they just carry on with their lives. Another group is singled out. Another. And another. Until finally the regime comes for the rest, and no one is left to defend them.
The regime may have begun with the low-hanging fruit, the ones most Americans simply trying to navigate a chaotic economy and political landscape brought to us by bluster and fiat aren’t paying much attention to, the ones easily dismissed as “un-American”, other.
How long, though, until all of us have to wonder if that thing we said in passing to our next door neighbors about tariffs, or the signs in our yards supporting Democratic candidates, will get us branded and shipped off to an El Salvadorian gulag in the dead of night?
The answer is, probably sooner than we think.
This week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the convicted felon illegitimately occupying the Oval Office is exploring “legal” pathways to abduct and disappear U.S. citizens to El Salvador.
During a press briefing, Leavitt attempted to explain that “These would be heinous, violent criminals who have broken our nation’s laws repeatedly. These are violent, repeat offenders on American streets.”
That’s the bait: fear of criminals (i.e., brown-skinned people).
Now that the spell has been cast, though, the switch will occur when the definition expands to those “violent criminals who have broken our nation’s laws” by opposing the regime’s policies, messaging, caprice, and lawlessness.
The former slumlord host of Celebrity Apprentice whom NBC fired for being too racist “love[s]” the idea of removing U.S. citizens. It would be an “honor,” he stated to reporters aboard Air Force One, to send them to El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
In March, he posted on his Nazi-infested social media:
I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla. Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114200244380161257
The “law-and-order” regime so committed to purging from our midst the “violent criminals who have broken our nation’s laws” pardoned everyone charged or convicted for the Jan. 6, 2021 terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol, even those who violently assaulted police officers and vandalized the Capitol.
The White House isn’t interested in them.
It’s interested in us — progressives, liberals, activists, transgender and LGBTQ+ Americans, students, colleges and their professors.
Then it will be op-ed writers, podcasters, journalists.
Then, political activists.
Next, teachers “indoctrinating students with a ‘woke agenda’”.
When they’re gone, the rest are fair game for clandestine knocks on doors in the middle of the night. What they “did” won’t matter; the regime will have decided.
We don’t need analogies to Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union to see it playing out here.
Consider the prison industrial complex that arose after the so-called abolition of slavery in 1865 that segued into the infamous Jim Crow laws that relegated Black Americans to second-class status. Whether or not Emmett Till, for example, actually whistled at Carolyn Bryant in 1955 didn’t matter. All Bryant’s husband and his half brother needed was the accusation to “justify” their extra-judicial torture and murder of Emmett Till. He is just one famous example of countless minorities who fell victim to a weaponized justice system operating on mere suspicion in the name of “security,” “law and order”.
That same ideology is at work today, and we’re all at risk.
The first full week of the new administration, amidst an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in Newark, NJ, agents detained several U.S. citizens, including a military veteran.
According to ICE, though, that’s just the price of doing business, as a statement after the raid explained agents “may encounter U.S. citizens while conducting field work and may request identification to establish an individual’s identity as was the case during a targeted enforcement operation at a worksite today in Newark.”
With an enemies list revealed, it’s anyone’s guess who will be among those deprived of citizenship, rounded up, and deported.
That crazy little German man with the weird mustache 80 years ago collaborated with other countries beyond the reach of the law to carry out the persecution and mass murder of Jews, Roma, Poles, Slavs, homosexuals, and political dissidents for the same stated reason.
We’re there, folks.
Disappearing of US citizens is right around the corner.
Who’s next?
You?
Me?
If the law doesn’t apply to all, no laws apply.