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suegeo

(2,996 posts)
Sat May 10, 2025, 10:24 AM Saturday

A private contract security agency and ICE detainees. Who are these guys/monsters??

https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/richmond/ice-detainee-escapes-custody-during-medical-procedure-at-vcu-medical-center/

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A person detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reportedly escaped from custody during a medical procedure at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Medical Center in Richmond on Wednesday.

According to VCU Police, the department was contacted shortly after 3 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, about a person who had been in the custody of ICE.

VCU Police said it was reported that the detainee walked away while he was in the custody of a private, contract security agency.


Erik Prince, republican asshole, brother to fascist Betsy DeVos. Erik had/has mercenary forces in Iraq (Blackwater, civilian massacres) and across the world...Hummm, gotta wonder: Were there news stories about this asshole Erik bringing his mercenaries to America and him building concentration camps in America?

Who are the people working for the contract security agency that this recent news story mentioned? Did "they" deputize January 6 insurrectionists as private security bros? So now we got white supremacists, proud boys, et. al. out terrorizing people in America. The J6 terrorists who were pardoned by the rapist convicted felon DJT are now deputies for the fascist dictator. Fuck this.

As the graffiti on the wall of a Minneapolis building says: "Real patriots kill Nazis"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince
Blackwater came under increasing criticism after the Nisour Square massacre in September 2007, in which Blackwater employees opened fire in a crowded square in Baghdad, killing 17 Iraqi civilians and seriously wounding 20 more. Three guards were convicted in October 2014 of 14 manslaughter charges, and another of murder, in a U.S. court in 2019.


Donald Trump is a convicted felon and is Putin's puppet. He is also a rapist
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A private contract security agency and ICE detainees. Who are these guys/monsters?? (Original Post) suegeo Saturday OP
The fundamental question is, why are there so many terrible people Ocelot II Saturday #1
Ripping children away from their mothers insults nature. suegeo Saturday #2
The Russian/GOP/Fox News seems to encourage psychopath thinking and behavior. Irish_Dem Saturday #4
That's not the answer, though. What I'm really asking Ocelot II Saturday #6
I agree, humans have gone to the dark side. Irish_Dem Saturday #7
Your diction is great Ocelot II vapor2 Saturday #8
I heard about this quite a while ago because I get my news from freespeechtv.org gab13by13 Saturday #3
Thank you for your tip suegeo Saturday #5

Ocelot II

(124,657 posts)
1. The fundamental question is, why are there so many terrible people
Sat May 10, 2025, 10:31 AM
Saturday

who are willing to do this kind of "work" in the first place? Who signs up to work for ICE, either directly or as a contractor, knowing that your job description includes arresting and terrorizing innocent people and taking children away from parents? What kind of person wants to do that, and why are there such people at all?

suegeo

(2,996 posts)
2. Ripping children away from their mothers insults nature.
Sat May 10, 2025, 10:39 AM
Saturday

I saw a TikTok story that said that ICE assholes make like $17 dollars an hour.

"Just following orders" does not cut it, you stupid Nazi fucks.

Irish_Dem

(69,463 posts)
4. The Russian/GOP/Fox News seems to encourage psychopath thinking and behavior.
Sat May 10, 2025, 11:33 AM
Saturday

Hatred, anger, revenge, control of others.

We can see Trump and his crime syndicate are psychopaths who are drug addicts and criminals.
These are the people Trump hires.

Ocelot II

(124,657 posts)
6. That's not the answer, though. What I'm really asking
Sat May 10, 2025, 11:51 AM
Saturday

is a very old philosophical/moral question, which is basically, Why the hell are so many people so shitty to each other? I read about all the crap Trump and his minions are doing, which isn't that far removed from Nazi Germany, which isn't that far removed from all the other shitty behavior of humans toward each other throughout history. Animals kill to eat and they fight for territory and mates, but they aren't mean just for the hell of it. People, some of them, anyhow, are mean because they like it. What happy little tickle did Kristi Noem get from cosplaying as an ICE agent and parading her botoxed self and her $60K watch in front of that sorry bunch of degraded prisoners in El Salvador? Why does Stephen Miller get a woody when he talks about eliminating habeas corpus so he can send anybody at all to foreign gulags without any kind of hearing? What the actual platinum-plated fuck is wrong with these people - or is this just the way people are, and we'd all turn mean if the circumstances allowed it?

Right now I wish I could live in a hut in the woods and never see another human again.

Irish_Dem

(69,463 posts)
7. I agree, humans have gone to the dark side.
Sat May 10, 2025, 12:18 PM
Saturday

Living on this planet is not fun.

Hoarding assets, killing others, cruelty may serve short term survival value.
Long term survival entails cooperation and sharing.

So perhaps there is ancient brain wiring loading on cruelty and greed.
Which is easily activated by deprivation or indoctrination.

The point of rule of law, Ten Commandments, etc etc is to get humans to function at a higher level.
Humans keep trying to evolve, but have many set backs.

It is the age old battle between good and evil.
Ongoing and constant.

vapor2

(2,283 posts)
8. Your diction is great Ocelot II
Sat May 10, 2025, 06:26 PM
Saturday

Sometimes I get angry (when they are arresting judges and mayors just to intimidate) and other times I get depressed that these goons get off on our suffering. There is a great article by Slate on how Elon's data heist is his goal and it's all about their power and GREED.

gab13by13

(28,023 posts)
3. I heard about this quite a while ago because I get my news from freespeechtv.org
Sat May 10, 2025, 11:20 AM
Saturday

They even had details of a contract with Prince. Prince will deport 100,000 people and sadly I forget his price tag but it was enormous.

Malcolm Nance talked about the contract.

Anyone notice the fellow who arrested the NJ mayor? He had a plaid shirt on under his HSI jacket, is that protocol? Homeland Security investigators are a little known branch of Homeland Security. I am wondering if Prince's mercenaries have infiltrated this group? The guy who arrested the mayor never turned around so I couldn't see the back of his jacket, but I don't think he was ICE, I very well could be wrong.

suegeo

(2,996 posts)
5. Thank you for your tip
Sat May 10, 2025, 11:39 AM
Saturday

A search based on your tip yielded the following, some of which I have yet to read:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/erik-prince-trump-immigration-enforcement
‘Maga since forever’: mercenary mogul Erik Prince pushes to privatize Trump deportation plans

]https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/military-contractors-prison-plan-detained-immigrants-erik-prince-00287208

https://eu.freep.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/25/erik-prince-mass-deportation-politico/80266892007/

Politico reported that the proposal was marked as "unsolicited" and said that any effort to deport 12 million people from the U.S. in two years' time would require an enormous effort. "It is unlikely that the government could swell its internal ranks to keep pace with this demand … in order to process this enormous number of deportations, the government should enlist outside assistance," Politico quoted the proposal as saying.


and also from above link, this:
...the plan called for what Politico described as a network of processing camps at military installations, a fleet of 100 planes and groups of citizens who would be allowed to arrest and presumably detain and deport immigrants suspected to be in the U.S. illegally.


https://www.latintimes.com/everything-we-know-about-eric-prince-mastermind-behind-25b-plan-deport-12-million-immigrants-576657
From the above link:
The document also proposes mass deportation hearings and a "bounty program which provides a cash reward for each illegal alien held by a state or local law enforcement official." Moreover, it suggests deputizing 10,000 private citizens including former law enforcement officials and give them expedited training to help with the effort. All such initiatives would likely be quickly challenged in court.
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