Schumer & Jefferies already caving on "No Masks"

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36. That isn't the issue

Gestapo following some rules is still Gestapo. Policing in the US is not a good model to emulate in any case. ICE has nothing to do with immigration. It is a white nationalist paramilitary strike force going back long before Trump was elected. There is no "immigration problem." People are being grabbed and abused because of their pigmentation or ethnicity. not because of their immigration status.

Poor people should have the same freedom to cross borders that wealthy people do. Poor people are desperately trying to save their families and their very lives. Wealthy people cross borders to exploit and oppress people, setting up sweat shops, plantations, and extraction operations, the very people in the countries from which people are fleeing. Coincidence? No.

If we can't draw a hard line here and now, where and when will we ever? If we can't demand that our representatives do likewise in this crisis, then why talk about politics at all? Why claim to have any sort of principles?

Badges, and ID and cameras and no masks has never stopped police in the US from being rogue forces terrorizing people.

Of course the right wing is the focus of our opposition. Likewise, we should oppose arsonists. That does not mean we cannot criticize the fire fighters we hired. "Yeah, but what about the arsonists?" is no excuse.