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Submitted by Sarah on Fri, 07/21/2006 - 5:21pm.
I'm not able to report this story in precise detail, but here are the bare bones of the tale:
» 2 days ago around 5:30 pm, my friend was walking through the Planned Parenthood/IRS parking lot, carrying a six pack of beer. The Homeland Security guy drove in, almost hit my friend with his car, then rolled down his window and asked my friend what he was carrying. My friend identified what he was carrying correctly as a six pack, the Homeland Security guy then said something about how people do drugs in that area. My friend replied that he knew that, he works nearby, and that the activity in question occurs later at night, which would be a better time to look for it if one was looking. The Homeland Security guy is then reported as being flustered, he apologized, and told my friend something like "Take 'er easy". And that's the story.
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We're doomed.
Submitted by Rick on Fri, 07/21/2006 - 6:04pm.We might as well just offer ourselves as human sacrifices to our Caiman Overlords, because with such well-trained Homeland Security personnel on the job, this country is in a handbasket and headed quickly to hell.
Tis True
Submitted by Sarah on Fri, 07/21/2006 - 6:11pm.Maybe we can invite him for a brew at the Broho.
Was this an actual Homeland
Submitted by Phil Owen on Fri, 07/21/2006 - 6:47pm.yeah
Submitted by Norm on Fri, 07/21/2006 - 8:29pm.Homeland
Submitted by Sarah on Fri, 07/21/2006 - 9:31pm.And I think we also
Submitted by The Fire Inside on Fri, 07/21/2006 - 11:50pm.And I think we also questioned the credentials to his "Homeland Security" status.
I don't know which part to me more afraid of if he is a real government employee: The fact that they have an agent (and I presume office?) in Olympia or how (for lack of a better word) Claussou the agent appears to be?
"I am for free commerce with all nations, political connection with none, and little or no diplomatic establishment. And I am not for linking ourselves by new treaties with the quarrels of Europe, entering that field of slaughter to preserve their balance."
Yes
Submitted by Sarah on Sat, 07/22/2006 - 6:08am.I wonder if the next person he contacts can get a look at his i.d. and also a contact number for his boss. That wouldn't be airtight proof of anything but would be good start.
Don't know, but the plates don't smell like Rent a Cop
Submitted by DrewHendricks on Tue, 07/25/2006 - 1:55pm.Here is the record of an armed security guard named Wells.
There is a Scott D. Wells, listed as working for Loomis Fargo, in Tacoma. Maybe he's our subcontractor, working with Homesec as an ICE agent. Who knows? Homesec when I wrote them would not give up their agent's first name, or middle initial, so until I ID the guy on the street, I'm SOL.
Sounds good to me...
Submitted by DrewHendricks on Mon, 07/24/2006 - 10:02am.The response I got was from ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. If that is true, this guy is as close to the description of an SS officer as anyone in the US would be (the SS had jurisdiction in the Reich over all non-citizens, to the point of final disposal of the noncitizen's labor and gold fillings.) I want to know EXACTLY who he is, and where he gets served with legal process should it come to that. Y'all got my back?
errr
Submitted by Norm on Mon, 07/24/2006 - 11:29am.Sounds like he's a loose
Submitted by Meta Hogan on Tue, 07/25/2006 - 7:36am.Huh?
Submitted by DrewHendricks on Tue, 07/25/2006 - 1:45pm.ICE seems to me to be a basic aspect of how this country is exactly like Nazi Germany, with an over-emphasis on regulating people by labeling them with citizen status / nonstatus roles and then 'disposing' of them by putting them into detention, or deporting them. I'm not worried that they'll be killed outright - yet. We're in nowhere near the crisis situation that sparked that behavior in 1943's Germany. But the historical / social development is too similar - the same property forfeiture laws, the same citizen / noncitizen status with bureaucratic controls and definitions for EVERYTHING, the same desire to classify and dispose of people as if they're chattel to be moved back to the other side of a chessboard.
The tideflats down in Tacoma have become the home to the Northwest Detention Center, where this man would take his prisoners if he were to find one in Olympia. I've been there for a demopnstration against the facility. It looks like a small concentration camp or a jail, and I'm told it houses 500 or 1000 people.
I'm pretty sure you're going to disagree with the Nazi analogy, but what I'm interested in is your thoughts on Homesec and why that's a bad idea, and what you think that ICE does that is a good idea.