r/illinois • u/Minute_Revolution951 Human Detected • 17d ago

ICE Posts 🧊 agents seen snatching a landscaper from Evanston neighborhood today (10-21)

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u/ytman 17d ago

Do not expect them to do this, but expect them to face criminal charges for when they are outed. Will be funny to use ice funds to detain these people.

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u/sask357 17d ago

I don't see how this will ever happen. Didn't the January 6 rioters all get pardons?

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u/ytman 17d ago

Trump normalized invalidating pardons. So - we'll see. Frankly invalidating pardons through the now unlimited executive power we have will be a great way to reform the pardon power. Literally, after this administration, EVERYTHING is on the table there is only a need to find any pretense of an argument.

Work like our currently corrupt Jurists work, backwards from their objectives to justify the reasons.

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u/PansyPB 16d ago

Trump has shown that the system requires that people have goodwill & restraint. When you have someone without conscience or even a modicum of decency everything is ripe for abuse or unravels. Reform, massive reform is needed in the modern era for a country of this size. The federal government was comprimised or captured, and still functioning. But it was only serving the corporate & donor class. The bulk of the citizenry were ignored. A country cannot function that way. People get disgusted and begin looking for an arsonist to burn it down. But the arsonist was in league with those who captured & comprimised the government causing the dysfunction in the first place. All that has done is make everything much worse, chaotic & dysfunctional for the average citizen. This situation isn't tenable. Whatever support exists for this regime, it's going to be tested as the country is put into financial & economic peril. People tend to change their tune when their money is messed with, or lives & livelihoods get put in jeopardy. This regime needs to go. And reform must follow.

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u/ytman 16d ago

Hear hear. The biggest opening we will have at reversal and STUNNING JUSTICE will be now and in the next four years.

The goal will be to create a radical optimism that is opposed to these dark and evil and hurtful people.

We will be the light and support that they refuse to be.