nomadpete

Umm, Jerry.... not 'he'.... "Rochelle Bilal, was sworn into office on January 6, 2020. She is the first elected African American woman to hold sherriff position in Philly county's history.

I call "BS". None of those suits would have the gonads to do anything brave.

The situation in US seems to cast the ICE staff as paramilitary. Neither real police nor military but more empowered than either. Not everyone is pleased. But I don't see that changing things.

Don't knock it, it is working well. (For some.)

Senate can go, too. All they do is squabble and slow down progress. I really thought the Muskovite was going to do that. A dictatorship is, by definition, the simplest, lean government.

Well the people elected him because he promised 'small government'. And that's what they got. You really only need one decision maker! Might as well sack congress now, they only make trouble.

Give him credt for being honest! It would be disingenuous to use the Defense Department to invade a foreign country, wouldn't it?

Concerning the US border control agents, I am disgusted to see the 'agents' wearing large 'POLICE' labels on their uniform. As far as I can tell, they are NOT actually police, do not have police training, do not have the legal authority of police. Yet they are armed, and can use lethal force. Another instance of over reach by a government 'authority'.

With apologies, I take that statement back. It came from a unverifiable source. I should have checked before posting.

Seems that body cameras have not beed issued to all agents. If there was any body cam footage, it is being witheld. Quote from Fox News (USA):- MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Bystander videos showed an ICE agent shooting and killing a driver in south Minneapolis. It is not clear whether the ICE agent had a body-worn camera that recorded what happened right before the shooting. ,................... Body-worn camera footage from a similar incident there led to the dismissal of charges against a woman who was shot by a border patrol agent. The woman was charged with trying to ram federal agents with her vehicle. DHS called her a "domestic terrorist." But the woman's attorney said the U.S. Attorney's Office dropped the charges after reviewing body-camera footage of the incident. "And they're still labeling her a domestic terrorist, even though the charges have all been dropped by the attorney's office," Christopher Parente told the FOX 9 Investigators. "So in this case, I would tell everybody what I told them in our case. I would be very suspect of any press release that is put out right now by DHS."

Well I arrived back in Tassie and stepped off the plane into 29 degree heat (yeah I don't expect you lot to call that 'heat'). A total fire ban was imposed all weekend due to heat and expected wind up to 100kph. Tassie being tassie, whilst heatwave and wind stoked the fires ravaging the mainland, we got a cool weekend - dead calm and rain. CRIKEY IT'S WET! Thankfully only one vegetation fire down our way and it started in the middle of the night. Promptly dealt with by a couple of crews. Wilder fires are the new norm.

It's time to bump this thread. When is a war not a war? Answer:- When it's a Special Operation. That works for Pooten and his best buddy in USofA. It worked so well for orange-atan, that he has lined up a bunch of Special Operations...... such as Mexico (wasn't that where they got Texas & Mississippi?), Cuba, Panama, Greenland, Canada...... These have been mentioned.

It appears the americans can.

I totally agree.. That helps to even out the playing field for both sides of the thin blue line. I think it should improve public trust, too. I note that in US, the feds have prohibited the ICE from wearing body cameras. Are civilians permitted to wear body cameras?

How many Aussies still want to ditch our King? Looking at the failing democracy in usa, I sure don't like going down the path of having a president! It's not working out too well for them!

I had hoped that once Donold won the election, that the toxic division of usa might cool down. I was so wrong about that. Just reading some us news now, and they gave most coverage to vitriolic hate against protesters. The ICE could do their job without all this theatrical agression. Their job could be done quietly, respecting people, without doing it at gunpoint and with hidden faces. It's clear to me that ICE is designed to frighten and threaten and enrage everyone. But they intentionally stir up the division. Stoking fear & hate helped DT win the presidency last time. And yet, their mid term elections are still months away, (if they actually have them). They are winding up the voters a bit early!

From Red's link above.... Trump’s action as the behavior of a leader who “believes in absolute executive power,” ------------------ The current man in the gilded oval has clearly shown no intention of letting state law, federal law, or international law get in his way. His policy seems to be "I can do whatever I want. So whatcha gunna do about it?"

So, would you rather have Miller or JD vance or Donold in the gilded oval? The whole mob looks equally qualified.

I see reports that the trump administration has prevented state and county law enforcement and courts from dealing with investigating the case. Witholding evidence. Its for FBI only. And trump has already told everyone it was clearly self defence by the goon.

The curious thing about security guards in Aus... is they have no power to detain or arrest or touch an alleged offender. At least that's what I was told. A friend did security for a while and he said he had to bluff. Basically he was legally only allowed to ask them nicely to wait here whilst he phoned the police. The exact opposite to what we see in usa.

This sad event is proof of the new faschist usa. Those ICE 'agents' are heavily armed, are masked (unidentifiable), uncontrolled, and know that they are above the law. Sounds like the infamous brownshirts. Each step that usa takes destabilises the world destroys trust in their country.

Something I notice is how our civilian police are looking more and more like military operatives. I think this hampers their connection with the communities that they are employed to protect. Are we getting too americanised? Should our coppers carry assault rifles like in USA? What think you?

Nah. It doesn't bear thinking about.

These days, everything is done by ones and zeros...

Back in my (working) day, I had great data security....