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   Message 94,647 of 94,851   
   Chris Ahlstrom to Bradley K. Sherman   
   Re: "We Are Not The Gestapo," Says Gesta   
   21 Feb 26 07:23:12   
   
   XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Bradley K. Sherman wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:   
      
   > | A federal judge excoriated immigration agents for making   
   > | arrests while wearing masks that conceal their identities   
   > | in a scathing opinion that references a "regime of secret   
   > | policing" and mask-wearing by Ku Klux Klan members.   
   > |   
   > | Judge Joseph Goodwin of the US District Court for the   
   > | Southern District of West Virginia found on Thursday that   
   > | US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents violated an   
   > | immigrant's constitutional rights when they arrested him in   
   > | masks and detained him without a bond hearing.   
   > |   
   > | The agents' presence--with masks, unmarked cars, and   
   > | without badges--is "indistinguishable from lawbreakers,"   
   > | and the arrest that followed is "the elimination of   
   > | constitutional accountability itself," Goodwin, a Clinton   
   > | appointee who's sat on the bench for over three decades,   
   > | wrote in a 34-page decision.   
      
   Ya think?   
      
   >    
   >   
   > The decision:   
   >   
   >    
      
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