I know the ACLU is involved, but for crying out loud, the very first thing they should have done after the first visit was call a lawyer, before he even got on a plane to come home.
"[...] you will be a sad, despised man who eats himself alive with shame at your own pathetic weakness.
You will never know peace. You will seek to lose yourself, to escape the burden of knowing the truth about yourself. But wherever you go, you will find yourself. You will torment yourself until your last day on Earth,"
This is not "criticism".
In any country on Earth, sending this to a senior law-enforcement official would not end with a polite request to fill out a voluntary statement form.
The man got the softest possible visit from the security state and came away narrating it like a dissident memoir.
Freedom of speech is not a partisan issue, and is strongly a matter of principle and of core constitutional rights. When you take it away, you're left with a country that is not worth defending. Think about it.
Moreover, we know from extensive news coverage that the ICE facilities are hell.
It's true freedom of speech isn't a partisan issue, but you don't want to make a cause célèbre out of someone this toxic. It's counter-productive, since it causes normal people to think free speech isn't all it's cracked up to be.
The ICE facilities are not "hell". They're no better or worse than US prisons. Which is okay, since that's what they are. And nobody is forced to be there "too long". They can go back to their country of origin at any time.
Look, you obviously don't care about or respect individual rights. You don't care that people be free to speak to those whose salary they pay via taxes, and you don't care that detention facilities be humane. It is not clear how informed you are about the quality of ICE facilities; they have many serious problems. People who feel they're wronged have no reason to give up their case until a judge makes a ruling. Individuals rights are a laughing matter to you, and this is also validated by your username. Basically you won't learn until it's your rights that get taken away.
Huh. They did sort of post it in their article, didn't you see? Here it is below.
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The email he sent had the subject line "What's next." Streever called Lyons a "monstrous human being" and predicted the ICE leader would "go down in history as America's Reinhard Heydrich, the butcher" — a reference to the Nazi official considered to be one of the architects of the Holocaust.
"The way you are protecting the obvious execution in Minnesota, even as we see the videos, will lead to your downfall. Even Trump will turn on you before the end, and you will be a sad, despised man who eats himself alive with shame at your own pathetic weakness.
Photos of Renée Macklin Good and Alex Pretti are seen among flowers and messages at the makeshift memorial for Pretti, set up in the area where he was shot and killed by federal immigration agents, in Minneapolis.
Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images
"You will never know peace. You will seek to lose yourself, to escape the burden of knowing the truth about yourself. But wherever you go, you will find yourself. You will torment yourself until your last day on Earth," the email read.
I couldn't tell for sure if that was the whole email or just portions they wanted to add commentary on either so I searched around and found this article https://archive.is/PX8KO which nore traditionally displays the email & confirms it is the (claimed) whole thing.
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[ 1.4 ms ] story [ 32.3 ms ] threadYou will never know peace. You will seek to lose yourself, to escape the burden of knowing the truth about yourself. But wherever you go, you will find yourself. You will torment yourself until your last day on Earth,"
This is not "criticism".
In any country on Earth, sending this to a senior law-enforcement official would not end with a polite request to fill out a voluntary statement form.
The man got the softest possible visit from the security state and came away narrating it like a dissident memoir.
Moreover, we know from extensive news coverage that the ICE facilities are hell.
The ICE facilities are not "hell". They're no better or worse than US prisons. Which is okay, since that's what they are. And nobody is forced to be there "too long". They can go back to their country of origin at any time.
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The email he sent had the subject line "What's next." Streever called Lyons a "monstrous human being" and predicted the ICE leader would "go down in history as America's Reinhard Heydrich, the butcher" — a reference to the Nazi official considered to be one of the architects of the Holocaust.
"The way you are protecting the obvious execution in Minnesota, even as we see the videos, will lead to your downfall. Even Trump will turn on you before the end, and you will be a sad, despised man who eats himself alive with shame at your own pathetic weakness.
Photos of Renée Macklin Good and Alex Pretti are seen among flowers and messages at the makeshift memorial for Pretti, set up in the area where he was shot and killed by federal immigration agents, in Minneapolis. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images
"You will never know peace. You will seek to lose yourself, to escape the burden of knowing the truth about yourself. But wherever you go, you will find yourself. You will torment yourself until your last day on Earth," the email read.