Because where's the sense in oversimplifying complex interrelationships? (Apparently, somewhere on this screen.)
Not everyone is on board with the "Board of Peace" (HT: unknown photographer). A peace initiative in which the Vatican doesn't join? Really? Even when it doesn't really mean it, the Vatican tends to sign on to these sorts of things. Maybe because this Pope can see that the "Board of Peace" is little more than faux-polite extortion with many built-in opportunities for diversion of funds. "Nice diplomatic relationship you've got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it."- I don't use (anti)social media. But I am anti-ICE — as to objective, personnel, and sure as hell institutionally-mandated misconduct. Unlike most of ICE's known victims to date, however, I actually have a skillset to fight back. I know how to read a warrant — or demand that you have one in the first place, or demand that you provide credible evidence for probable cause. I know how to file motions and win them. I've actually got all of the relevant documentation demonstrating that I'm 'murikan… and I'm a veteran, unlike almost all of your leadership, which is also documented both on my driver's license and in the fingerprint files from my security clearances all those years ago. (I couldn't have had a career as a safecracker because my prints were already on file. Schade.)
So, you moronic playground bullies: Come on. Just do a little bit of research from this page to find me; I'm not exactly hiding from anyone. Besides, my ancestry is European (for at least the last millennium) so it'll be an interesting challenge for you. <SARCASM> And please don't throw me in that courtroom! Even though you'd just ignore any adverse ruling from any judge. </SARCASM>
- So the Secretary of LOAC Violations has a blacklist of undesireable universities that looks darned familiar. It really does; my immediate family and I have a handful of degrees from institutions on that list (and even more admissions offers). Leave aside for the moment that if military officers are getting so inappropriately "globalist" and "woke" just by attending institutions where they're really not welcomed by fellow students, and have to work extra hard to develop relationships with faculty (even in purported apolitical fields like, say, "civil engineering"), there's either a serious problem with officer selection and preparation or a crying need for exactly that transformation among officers who originated at, umm, allegedly less wakeful institutions (like other degrees earned by my immediate family and me). Instead, take a look at what concentrating on the "right kind of schools" from which to recruit agents did for US intelligence effectiveness during the early and middle Cold War, and ask yourself if that Princeton grad is demonstrating — yet again — that he's incapable of learning from history. Maybe he's just jealous of his boss and vice-boss (because it was only Princeton), the cabinet members, and other senior Administration officials who have degrees from institutions on that list. More likely, he's just sore that despite his own Ivy League degree (interesting that most of the Ivies are on his list) he didn't succeed in doing so himself…
- Today is a really frustrating anniversary with more than faint echoes in the present: The pretty-damned-direct ancestor of the current Administration's immigration policies. When even a Court standing in the shadow of 9/11 and its aftermath (and with a plurality of members selected in that shadow) finally admits that judicial approval of that order was "gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled by the court of history, and — to be clear — 'has no place in law under the Constitution.'"… while nonetheless deciding that the same nature of animus (this time related to the then-current fallacious ethnic induction) was not relevant to evaluation of a similar policy leading directly to today. All the while ignoring that the current resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would be sansei, or even nisei, himself had the target been European… but that battle had (sort of) already been fought to a standstill,† however temporary.
So: Welcome to Manzanar, just a few miles from the first ICE raids. There's still a lot of basic learning to be done by those who manage to seize the reins of power (or retain them; this inquiry isn't about "latecomers," unlike theirs).
† Any ironic contrast with another sausage on this platter is entirely intentional. Or, perhaps, just entirely inevitable, once one acknowledges that the sin humanity always visits upon the sons (and daughters) is the circumstance of the father's birth — presuming he can be unmistakeably determined.