He has inserted the boot so deep he thinks he's wearing it.

This made me laugh, then following the thread and comments, my ribs now hurt. 🤣

I'll send you the links I have. If I have anything wrong above, anyone feel free to correct me. But, we saw it in real-time in Florida and most of this stuff was passing in the news blitz we're all enduring.

State-Run facilities will be like Alligator Auschwitz, the first state-run federal detention facility. Baker Correctional Institution, Florida was the second facility. Of note: Texas has offered 1,400 acres and Arizona is offering two empty state prisons for $1/year each.

Tent Cities are part of that, to be hastily-constructed tent camps on said military bases. The goal is about 5,000 people per site. They want these to be built in hurricane-prone areas with vague evacuation plans for a reason, using FEMA disaster tents. Going Pontius Pilate style handwashing.

Where? Well, they have five military bases so far they may use. Fort Bliss, Texas (10,000 capacity planned); Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ; Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, NY; Hill Air Force Base, Utah; Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida
and
up to 10 more bases planned...

The infrastructure for camps is being built and test-scaled. They'll call them, as they have been, 'detention facilities'. They started capacity at ~40k in January 2025, hit 66k by Dec 2025. Their target is 108,000-135,000 by 2027. Americans will discover the camps were never just for immigrants.

Preformance theatre & selective asset protection.

Firefighters work in service of the public, often volunteer. Career EM guys in my experience are usually goodfolk, too.

Cops? Money, lethal authority over others, & 'protective group' self-interest. It's a control trip for insecure notetakers.

I gotta go pick up kids but I have the answer and... we're not gonna like it. Pick up a copy of Field Manual 3-24, it's online for free. Give that a look-see...

Note: The town pork were... decent, for bastards. Their arrest was power extraction. The county Sheriff is a 'roided out, hungry strongman who wanted his loyalists in those jobs so he set up the charges with the DA and the state bit. Fighting the charges exhausted the older town cops & they retired.

Eh, it's also weird to expect folks to see ICE as a legitimate when it behaves so illegitimately. Plus, anyone CAN be arrested while at work. My hometown cops got picked up by state troopers that way. The issue is that in hierarchies of power, this check this is not done from lower levels.

Cops know that 'federal agents can do whatever to people' quickly becomes 'law enforcement can do whatever to people'. Their power dynamics & desires align.

Accountability flows to the top, not to the People, which is how the powers that be have wanted it since slave patrols.

'Shouldn't cops stop kidnappings?' assumes their job is protecting people. It's not. Castle Rock v. Gonzales made that clear. Their job is enforcing law selectively. When ICE does the kidnapping, stopping it means challenging power flowing down. That's not in their job description.

*The snow bibs were accidentally put in a donation box of outgrown clothes by a housemate. To be fair to the housemate, they might not have fit or been close, so they got put in there INCIDENTALLY more than accidentally. I ordered new ones and sent the others on for donation.