From: x@y.com   
      
   ICE should get rid of their face masks because the optics are a huge   
   liability for the Delta Tango party.  One of the agents was recently   
   caught on a hot mic quipping: "This is just like 'Call of Duty'," (a   
   reference to a popular video game.)  The agent was correct in that   
   their tactical costumes seem to have been inspired by the avatars in   
   violent video games, including the full face masks.  The political   
   enablers of ICE say that the masks are needed to protect the agents'   
   identities because they might be exposed to retaliation.   
      
   In total, the masks are a big loser for the DT party because of their   
   optics.  A masked figure in black tactical gear is, by design,   
   intimidating.  They look like avatars in a video game and are not seen   
   as human beings.  The images that are burned into our consciousness   
   daily are of masked... (what noun should I use here?)  ... masked   
   avatars?  The administration tries to blame it on the people who were   
   shot or governors and mayors; however, we might see that clip once.   
   On the other hand, I have no idea how many times and from how many   
   different angles I have seen masked, jack-booted ICE agents standing   
   in a semicircle firing their weapons repeatedly into Alex Pretti's   
   lifeless body.  We watched in horror as the five-year-old toddler was   
   dragged out of a car in his driveway away from his tearful mother as   
   she begged the agents not to take him away.  Nobody hears the   
   rationale of their position when the optics are so damning!   
      
   People won't remember the explanations.  People will definitely   
   remember the scene after scene of masked ICE agents beating people to   
   the pavement.  That plays to the gut!  You can't "un-see" that!   
      
   Of course, if you're Don Lemon, the avatars handcuffing you on the set   
   of the Grammy Awards as the cameras rolled just made your career.   
   Similarly, if you want to see the DT enablers lose badly in the   
   November elections, then you hope they'll keep wearing the masks and   
   breaking down the doors of US citizens' homes.   
      
   "  Ah! well a-day! what evil looks   
      Had I from old and young!   
      Instead of the cross, the Albatross   
      About my neck was hung.  "   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)