Open letter to ICE
Jun. 19th, 2018 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusJust a quick note to all ICE and GEO Group agents, guards, and staff:
During the Nuremberg trials, we tried people who just stood watch. People were convicted even without existing video and first-hand accounts of them literally tearing children from their parents. And "Just following orders" was declared then not a valid excuse.
And, in a few years when this is all over and the trials are going, some of them got away. Sometimes, they didn't get tried, and went into hiding, or just kept quiet, and didn't face any consequences immediately, but were caught years, sometimes even decades, later. But many of them were eventually caught, tried, and jailed or deported.
Just something to keep in mind when your regime falls and, you know, for the rest of your lives. You may feel powerful now, and you may get away with it for a little while, but justice will eventually be served. You can leave now, testify on the record about what you know, or spend the rest of your lives looking over your shoulders.
Your call.
During the Nuremberg trials, we tried people who just stood watch. People were convicted even without existing video and first-hand accounts of them literally tearing children from their parents. And "Just following orders" was declared then not a valid excuse.
And, in a few years when this is all over and the trials are going, some of them got away. Sometimes, they didn't get tried, and went into hiding, or just kept quiet, and didn't face any consequences immediately, but were caught years, sometimes even decades, later. But many of them were eventually caught, tried, and jailed or deported.
Just something to keep in mind when your regime falls and, you know, for the rest of your lives. You may feel powerful now, and you may get away with it for a little while, but justice will eventually be served. You can leave now, testify on the record about what you know, or spend the rest of your lives looking over your shoulders.
Your call.
