As part of its recruitment campaign, DHS offered signing bonuses, lifted age restrictions and roped in celebrities like actor Dean Cain, who played Clark Kent/Superman in Lois and Clark, to encourage more people to apply.
The SS recruitment drive is going well:
“I think there’s way too many illegal immigrants here,” [Peter] said, noting that if he gets the job, he hopes he gets to deport people.
“I’m the guy that just executes at this point. So whatever they want, they tell me to do it, I go do,” Heubert said.
Speaking to NPR in Spanish, [Garibay] said it has always been his goal to be a Border Patrol agent.
“It’s a job and a career that I chose, so you have to move forward,” he said.
As for the people he’d be detaining, he said: “It hurts to see. They’re human, but a job is a job.”
As for the people he’d be detaining, he said: “It hurts to see. They’re human, but a job is a job.”
“I was just doing my job” is no excuse. It’s a trope at this point. Are people this dense? I guess we are right at that 80 year thing…WWII ended in 1945, right? That 80 year theory is contested, but I really do wonder…
“I was just doing my job” is no excuse.
No. It really is. Or, more specifically “I was just following orders”.
Jacob Geller semi-recently did a pretty good overview of what a shitshow the Nuremberg Trials were. It has some… questionable taste dramatic readings and shots but it really drills home how little anyone cared and how much we, as a people, outright justified the atrocities by trying to apply “law” to them.
But the biggest lasting impact of that was the sheer limitation of court time and human attention spans. There were legal consequences but the only people we heard about were the high ranking officials because there just wasn’t time to try every single person who “served” and people got bored after reading about the twentieth Captain’s trial. It built the groundwork for “The guy operating the gas chamber wasn’t at fault. Only the camp kommandant was. Err, actually, only his boss was. You know what? It was all hitler”.
Which is what led to decades of “Rommel was actually a great guy who just wanted to fight wars and didn’t care who he fought them for” or “There were a lot of good men in the German Army and they should not all be considered nazis” and so forth.
And that is what people (and the shitbags in the military) are counting on. If there are any consequences it will be for trump and miller and hegseth, not for the people who were pointing guns at people and disappearing folk. Hell, a bunch of useful idiots will come out bragging that the 82nd Airborne only shot ten black people when they raided Portland and it could have been so much worse and we should be thankful they all suited up and deployed so that worse people wouldn’t!
“I’m a fucking traitor and I’m proud of it!”
I’m doing my shart
Also, people who like working without pay, apparently
“ICE agents also go without pay [during a government shutdown]” (arc)
This is why we need to keep the government shit down. This will hurt morale badly
No pay, no play
During the shutdown, as many as 4 million federal employees, including some service members, could go without a paycheck. Hundreds of thousands – including airport security officers, air traffic controllers and certain members of the military – will be deemed essential workers and told to come to work anyway. ICE agents also go without pay. National parks could close and the Smithsonian museums also typically close within a few days.
I’m hoping the fired feds are undermining the system from within. (And hopefully at least most of the veterans, but that’s less likely)
