Who Do ICE Agents Root For When They Watch "Raiders of the Lost Ark?"
If all cops are bastards, and they are, what does that make ICE agents?
I know have a reputation of being a bit of a…shall we say…”Sarcastic Clown,” but, I promise you, this is a serious, sincere question. Or as seriously sincere as a sarcastic clown is capable of being.
Who Do ICE Agents Root For When They Watch Indiana Jones Movies?
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was abducted from an American neighborhood, where was never accused of any crime, much less being in a violent gang, and is now, hopefully, rotting in a Salvadoran prison. I say “hopefully,” because him being alive, but tortured and in danger is better than what my gut feeling tells me about his current condition.
Regardless of your political affiliation, every American is supposed to be in favor of due process, because if the government can do what it’s doing to Abrego Garcia, they can do it to all of us. That’s why even our heavily compromised and corrupt Supreme Court voted 9-0 that Abrego Garcia must be returned to the U.S. But the Trump Reich is ignoring those lawful orders and is instead letting El Salvador’s douchey-as-fuck dictator hold onto Abrego Garcia indefinitely in a death camp.
Does any of this sound familiar? It should, because it’s Nazi shit. Therefore, anyone carrying a badge and gun on behalf of ICE is a Nazi. Full-stop.
I’m sure that some, maybe even on the left, will cringe at that declaration. I don’t see how you can call anyone doing Nazi shit, and then clinging to the “We’re just following the law” cliché anything but, well, a Nazi. So that brings me back to the conceit of this entire piece.
Who do ICE agents root for when they watch “Raiders of the Lost Ark” with their families? I know I root against the Nazis, no matter what. I kind of find everything the Nazis stood for so repellant that I have no choice but to cheer when a Nazi, fictional or otherwise, meets a grisly end.
I don’t think ICE agents feel that same rush of excitement when they watch “Indiana Jones,” though. I bet they get a twinge of sadness when they see Indy cold-cock a Nazi. Their little fascist hearts explode when they watch their armband wearing compatriots open the Ark, and literally explode and melt. Otherwise, how in the world could anyone with a conscience sweep up Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and send him to die in a brutal dictator’s death camp, just like a Nazi would do to a Jewish, queer, or disabled German?
Honestly, what isn’t Nazi-as-Fuck about what ICE is doing to people right now? You know, the death camps that Hitler built weren’t primarily within Germany’s borders, right? Nazis claimed to just be following orders and cleaning the streets of the kinds of people that kindly, aryan Germans did not want on their streets.
Does that sound familiar?
There is so little daylight between the Nazis and Trump’s regime that when the naval academy purged its libraries of books recently, they dumped “The Diary of Anne Frank” and kept “Mein Kampf.” Two copies of that one actually. I guess maybe the thinking was ICE agents can do some research if they check out books from the naval academy.
Take it from me, someone who had to escape and deprogram from the cult of Christian Nationalism and the Republican Party (same thing), they won’t stop with “illegal” immigrants. It'll be legal immigrants next. Then anyone who dares to point out the emperor’s nudity (and tiny dick). I should say, they won’t stop until good people stop them.
And good people can do their part by calling up their local ICE field office and asking the same question I’m asking here.
Who do ICE agents root for, Nazis or Indiana Jones?
