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JIM LEACH's avatar

My favorite part is where the thug accuses her of being obnoxious. He and his fellow masked bandits are hauling people off without warning, without warrants, without badges and he's concerned about her tone and attitude. Her tone and attitude were precisely what was needed at that moment. I fear that one day these guys will run into the wrong people and it will not end well and we'll all be lucky to live through it.

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Kenneth Cooper's avatar

Given their lack of ID and official paperwork.

Why wouldn't Stand Your Ground laws apply?

How would one know they are acting in an official capacity?

Rhetorical question.

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Jeanne's avatar

It is time to BOYCOTT Home Depot! It is time to write to Ted Decker, CEO of Home Depot, and demand that he make a public statement objecting to this Gestapo-style activity taking place on his company's property. Decker needs to fight back against the Nazification of the United States!

Here is his address:

Edward (Ted) Decker, CEO

Home Depot

2455 Paces Ferry Rd.

Atlanta, GA 30339

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Mari Praus's avatar

You haven’t been boycotting Home Depot? I’ve been boycotting them since 47 first time in office! They are huge contributors to his campaigns. Any company that has helped him get back in office should be boycotted!

Take an active role in resisting and start looking up which companies and corporations support this regime. Don’t wait for people to be kidnapped.

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wally ross's avatar

It's worth noting that Home Depot could put a stop to this, or at the very least, slow it down. Home Depot parking lots are private property. Any manager (or employee, for that matter) could demand that the ICE Gestapo immediately leave the property unless they have a signed judicial warrant. That's the law. To not do so equals tacit approval of these extrajudicial kidnappings.

In other news: As part of its zealous, irrational and xenophobic quest to arbitrarily punish as many brown people as possible, the US denied 13-16-year-old Venezuelan little leaguers entry visas to play in the 2025 Senior League Baseball World Series. Ostensibly the kids from Maracaibo were denied visas because they posed a national security threat. The only way this can make sense to anyone is if the administration's concerns were based on the youths intention of stealing every base possible.

It's just another despicable move by an increasingly despicable and, dare I say, childish government.

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Paul's avatar

Not all heroes wear a cape.

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Daniel Amos's avatar

Yay for Dani. I hope she runs for office!

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MAUREEN MEHLER's avatar

Thank you for sharing this. I'd like to think I'd have her courage, but I don't know. And thank you Dennis for taking on Hoskinson. Where was the PROOF that the person was "illegal" (and no person is illegal. Some are undocumented....kind of like the Pilgrims.) I don't see them asking to see proof of citizenship or a green card only that they are brown.

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G Mulholland's avatar

Based on their detention of U.S. citizens, like the veteran they kidnapped in Camarillo, I’d say “brown” is being used as sufficient reason for these masked thugs to grab someone, undocumented or not. The veteran who was detained for 3 days was driving a car (they smashed his windows) and was at work and therefore almost certainly had his ID, but he made the apparently grievous mistake of being Latino in the United States in 2025 and therefore, it would appear, had no rights.

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Marcia Goldstein's avatar

She is a lot braver than I could ever be. We now see how these things managed to go on in Germany, even in front of people's eyes. This took a lot of courage. It could have gone another way with her being grabbed by the hair and pulled into one of the unmarked cars. And little response even to that! What country are we living in?

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Theresa Ullrich's avatar

She got pics of the license plates- is there anyway to look up those plates? This is just so terrifying that masked men and women are taking people off the streets? This should be front page news everyday! All Americans should be worried- it could be anyone next.

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John w's avatar

Im so confused? This is like sneaking into a movie theater and when they catch u and tell u to go all these white woman pop up and go NOOOOOO U CANT DO THAT THEYRE INNOCENT THEY JUST WANT TO WATCH THE MOVIE!. And alot of them aren't committing crimes here but they all are here due to a crime. By crime i mean being here illegally. Im trying to understand what they're argument is and I still havnt found one.

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Michelle's avatar

Exactly! Thank you for the post, Jeff

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Michael Hoskinson's avatar

Being an illegal immigrant is a crime, Illegal Entry (8 U.S.C. § 1325). Here's a good description of her "Midwits are smart enough to come up with grand plans, but too dumb to ever gain a full appreciation of just how complicated and unpredictable

large-scale systems are.

They fail to approach them with the proper caution, and never seem

willing to test their ideas on a small scale before trying to implement

them on a large one.

They are college-aged English and Theater majors who have grandiose

opinions about how all of human societies, in all of human history, have

been wrong, but they are unwilling to test their new theory by using it to

run, say, a small sandwich shop, before voting for Bernie Sanders to

implement it across the richest and most powerful nation on Earth."

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Jeff Pearlman's avatar

Driving 56 in a 55 also a crime

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Dennis's avatar

In addition, the mere fact that a person present in the USA lacks legal status does automatically mean the person committed a crime. For example, a person who overstayed a tourist visa would not be guilty of violating Section 1325. So therefore "know-it-all" Hoskinson, who says that lacking legal status is a crime, doesn't know that much. Further, even if a person violated Section 1325 at some point in time does not necessarily make it crime that can be prosecuted if too much time has elapsed. (See Title 18, United States Code, Section 3282.) Above all else, every person present in the USA is entitled to due process. Compare that with Donald Trump, who is a walking, talking, convicted criminal enterprise.

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Paula Jean's avatar

This is a better representation of Hoskinson. His hate-filled diatribes have been documented, and led to his getting kicked off the HB Planning Commission .

And the hate doesn't stop there....he wrote on the now defunct FB page Save Surf City....til the corrupt city attorney threw him off the MAGA truck, after using him for campaigning for all things MAGA.

https://youtu.be/manC9TF7J6I?si=qEWz8eBH4slS_R7l

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Michael Hoskinson's avatar

Are you comparing driving 1 mile an hour over the limit to entering the country illegally? do you believe those 2 crimes are equal?

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Tom's avatar

Yes, both are civic offenses and not criminal offenses.

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G Mulholland's avatar

Being in the U.S. illegally is a misdemeanor— like a traffic violation. Also, it looks like she’s trying to help on a small scale (assisting one person in this particular Home Depot parking lot) rather than a large scale (mass protests, breaking into concentration camps and freeing people, legal action affecting an entire class rather than an individual…), so whoever created this made-up definition presumably had a different kind of person in mind.

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Michael Hoskinson's avatar

I'm not sure a clueless rich YogaMom is the example that supports your thesis. This person is a perfect example of a "Midwit" who doesn't know what she doesn't know.

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Jeanne's avatar

Being poor is not a crime. Neither is being rich a crime. Being a "rich YogaMom" does not make her clueless or a "Midwit." What is it you think she doesn't know that she doesn't know?

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Kenneth Cooper's avatar

Your white male privilege is obvious.

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Kate  Van Camp's avatar

Why is she clueless? Are you writing in support of unidentified kidnappers? The fact that a word like "midwit" exists (and your choice in using it) is pretty annoying in itself.

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Dennis's avatar

If you are the same Michael Hoskinson who appears in this YouTube video, then you hate liars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So3zsqD2SwI.

It logically follows, therefore, if you are the same person, you hate Donald Trump, who constantly lies about everything. (Only a colossal hypocrite could say that they hate liars and yet admire Donald Trump.)

But tell us, Michael Hoskinson, what is it that Dani doesn't know that she doesn't know? Be specific (since you know it all)!

PS: The failure to respond with specific, relevant facts will be deemed an admission on your part that you were lying when you wrote your comment.

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Nina's avatar

This Michael person, who is a verifiable member of a cult called MAGA, which abandoned the constitution long ago in order to defend a 34-count felon (and likely child predator) has a lot of nerve calling this woman a "midwit." What it really means, is "You're pretty, white and rich. You have all you need because society protects women like you. Why would you put yourself on the line for anyone else? Nobody takes you seriously because you are wearing yoga pants. Be grateful and stay in your lane."

I am glad she gave a huge F-you to that.

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