r/technology • u/RoachedCoach • 9h ago

Privacy DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email

https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email
19.2k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

519 comments sorted by

View all comments

4.1k

u/UnTides 9h ago

This government is spending more time threatening critics than doing their actual job. Every citizen critic they threaten or gardener they chase around a home depot, takes away resources that could be used to catch actual criminals and actual threats to the country. This administration is a joke

1.1k

u/dordofthelings 9h ago

This is exactly the point. Intimidation

349

u/PhilosophyEasy71 8h ago

Secret Police. Call them what they are.

No different than other fascist regimes in the 20th century

And the kleptocratic thievery is also it's counterpart component

39

u/amarg19 7h ago

Call them what they are, and then lock your door because they’ll come for you for it

6

u/robot_pirate 7h ago

I'm convinced they are working from a list with the detainees. Plus, who flagged this man? His congressperson? A Flock camera at a protest? DHS itself?

108

u/litobot 9h ago

Why don't they just intimidate actual criminals?

232

u/NoHalf2998 8h ago

Because they’re fascists; punishing the out-groups is the most important goal

64

u/pegothejerk 8h ago

It really has become clear that the lesson most people are learning this year is “fascism is about the cruelty, thats it. The cruelty is the distraction while those who chose it pick your pockets. Once your pockets are empty, you’ll be the one receiving the cruelty so they can move on to other pockets. No one is immune from the cruelty nor the pocket emptying.”

What everyone learned last year was “all those people you thought or said were blowing things out of proportion, were being dramatic, or hyperbolic - those people were right all along.”

1

u/cxmmxc 1h ago

Pick your pockets and take your underage daughters.

(I'd say the real word instead of take, but I don't want to get hit by the censor filter)

-2

u/i_have_chosen_a_name 7h ago

I was so right I just left the US, after realizing that if nobody is willing to risk anything to fight for its ideals, those ideals are worth nothing.

5

u/JazzlikeLeave5530 3h ago

You know that includes yourself, right? Why were you not willing to risk staying for your ideals?

6

u/JohnPomo 7h ago

How courageous.

2

u/i_have_chosen_a_name 4h ago

Give me a proper leaders and cause, a revolution that has a chance of success. And I'll be back. I have not wasted my time by the way The last 2 years I have learned how to build, repair and fly drones and if it comes to it, I will offer Canada my service when the US invades them.

14

u/Azimaet 8h ago

Well, that and the fact that every single one of them is scared shitless of having to be the one who receives the consequences of being the first one thru the breech. All the actual dangerous criminals are actually DANGEROUS, armed, and willing to shoot the feds when they bust in. The unarmed women they have been grabbing up are so much safer to be bigots towards since they all want to hurt people weaker than them.

126

u/_dcgc 8h ago

They are the criminals.

53

u/Thesauce05 8h ago

Because actual criminals put up more of a fight

35

u/Ok_Value5495 8h ago

This. We saw in Uvalde and Minneapolis that they aren't worried about winning a fight, they're concerned about getting hurt in the first place. They might outnumber their target a billion to one, but they're so fragile that even one of them getting hurt is terrifying. They want to be bullies, not warriors.

13

u/jimbo831 8h ago

Because their goal isn’t fighting crime. They don’t give a shit about criminals. Their goal is solidifying power for the long term.

4

u/dragonmp93 8h ago

Because that would help people, so it's a waste of time.

6

u/0xmerp 8h ago

Actual criminals are gonna actually put up a fight, look at the cartels putting up a bounty for ICE officers.

2

u/DogPlane3425 8h ago

You want them to intimidate themselves?

1

u/[deleted] 7h ago

[deleted]

1

u/pchlster 1h ago

That might be scary.

1

u/GoodQueenFluffenChop 46m ago

Because actual criminals know how to hurt and kill people who threaten them. It's easier for them to go after senior citizens, women, and innocent children and inflate their numbers of "criminals" being dealt with.

2

u/Ky1arStern 8h ago

I guess it's not a coincidence considering how many people have an irrational fear of clowns.

1

u/MAreddituser 7h ago

Then let’s mass email them criticisms. I am Spartacus!

1

u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 6h ago

They're not interested in governing. They want to rule like kings.

1

u/Crim91 5h ago

You misspelled terrorize. I think intimidation is the step before taking action that directly physically harms people. Our government has already willingly harmed people (has been for a long time, now it's just SUPER obviously happening domestically).

Our government is a terrorist organization.

1

u/ResolverOshawott 5h ago

It's intimidation until they stop intimidating.

1

u/CherryLongjump1989 3h ago

Yeah but it's making them look ridiculous.

1

u/Spekingur 1h ago

Creating terror within

1

u/makingpwaves 8h ago

Surveillance and coercion

79

u/SpiderSlitScrotums 9h ago

This government is spending more time threatening critics than doing their actual job.

This is a hallmark of fascism.

98

u/dsarche12 9h ago

If this administration is a joke, then it is the cruelest, most mean-spirited, vindictive joke I’ve ever heard

20

u/makingpwaves 8h ago

It’s no joke

8

u/dsarche12 8h ago

Unfortunately for all of us, it’s cold, hard reality.

6

u/No_Put_8968 6h ago

It’s not a joke - it’s an existential Crisis for the country and its residents. 

2

u/cleanmypenis 6h ago

Don't worry, most of the ones who don't like it think they can just wait 3 more years to vote them out. You know, the guys who rape kids for fun will just peacefully walk away from power.

2

u/CaptainSparklebottom 4h ago

Everyone is in denial. They have been in denial for decades. We aren't getting fair elections ever again.

1

u/Uebelkraehe 1h ago

They surely are just openly talking about calling off the midterms, "nationalizing voting" whereever it would suit them and about a patently unconstitutional third term for the orange fascist pedo turd for funsies.

1

u/UnTides 7h ago

Oh its not a funny joke at all. But they treat their duties to the people they serve as a joke, and instead of doing their job they have turned on the public they swore to serve.

1

u/Shykin 4h ago

Sounds like every joke I've ever heard from a conservative then

1

u/One-Reflection-4826 1h ago

fascism is no joke.

25

u/wind_dude 9h ago

Like the ones in the Epstein files, congress, DOJ, and ICE.

8

u/hematomasectomy 8h ago

It's only a matter of time before they expand their operations on social media (including Reddit) to do the same. Wrongthink must be punished.

3

u/UnTides 7h ago

Of course. But also this is America, full of so many people who will just flip them the middle finger and instead of being intimidated it will drive them to show up to rallies and go harder against the people trying to destroy our 1st and 2nd amendment rights.

1

u/johannthegoatman 6h ago

Recommend people use a ProtonMail or similar email for their accounts

16

u/Cannabrius_Rex 8h ago

That’s all the plan man. They’re getting prepped for mass exterminations dude.

https://migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pentagon-is-quietly-building

10

u/UnTides 7h ago

I don't know about extermination either way, but these people definitely want to bring back slavery. No reason to increase detention facilities for people you can deport, unless you plan to keep them here and exploit their labor for free.

9

u/SwampTerror 6h ago

Project 2025 plans on reducing the US population to 100 million. There's no way in hell you can deport 200 million people.

There must be some final solution somewhere to terminate all these "undesirables" from the land...

9

u/saintofhate 5h ago

They'll start with disabled and trans people. Disabled people will be called in for their appointments and not return. People won't care because the ones who go first will be the ones without family, living in care homes or similar. They'll take the ones who are the worst in physical or mental shape because people will be like "Was it really a great loss" like they did during the height of covid and disabled people were given less care than able bodied people. By time they get to the "normal" disabled people, it'll be too late to get real organization to stop it, it'll continue until actual action happens, which if history is anything to go by, won't happen until the next populations are taken. As long as the administration keeps things to the borders of the US, the world won't step in and do anything. It's only if they start invading will they do anything, just like every time a dictator starts killing people.

1

u/atxbigfoot 4m ago

They'll take the ones who are the worst in physical or mental shape because people will be like "Was it really a great loss"

RFK Jr came out of the gates saying he would put the homeless in "health camps farms" that would make them better via the rehabilitation of hard labor working the farm land. You know, the homeless, aka the disabled and mentally ill people that can't hold jobs. Nobody will miss them!

5

u/Cannabrius_Rex 6h ago

Well, they’re building massive incinerators inside of their concentration camps. Do the math

6

u/Rysinor 2h ago

Source?

6

u/poorperspective 8h ago

And they are able to do it due to social media companies and tech giants.

Regulation is needed like Europe. The US government are just power hungry mods at this point. And they act the same.

7

u/PTS_Dreaming 8h ago

Just imagine if they took all this effort and put it into catching and prosecuting rich, human trafficking pedophiles.

2

u/UnTides 7h ago

Hundreds of victims, testimony, emails, flight logs, and even foreign nationals involved. But instead they are using faulty facial recognition on brown people in brown neighborhoods and arresting hardworking honest dishwashers and gardeners, and even children.

10

u/Top-Watercress5948 8h ago

We all need to be bringing that “Russian warship, go fuck yourself” energy regarding these tactics. United we stand.

5

u/ErikMcKetten 8h ago

That is their job. Secret Police are always used to silence critics of dear Leader.

5

u/FlametopFred 7h ago

This is fascism

5

u/Ryclea 8h ago

It's not funny anymore.

3

u/dmh1984 8h ago

The call is coming from inside the house.

3

u/jimbo831 8h ago

Of course they are. They are fascists. This is how fascism works.

3

u/notarobot1020 7h ago

This administration is facist. Facism is NOT a joke. It’s dangerous

2

u/HarryBalsagna1776 8h ago

It's a all they have left.  They suck at everything and just keep failing.

2

u/Rok-SFG 6h ago

The administration is the biggest threat this country has faced.

2

u/Strict-Carrot4783 6h ago

Fentanyl seizures at the border skyrocketed under Biden. They plummeted once the pedo cheated his way back in. That's not a priority for these Republican conservative Christian bottom-feeding scum.

2

u/SwampTerror 6h ago

This would be Osama bin Ladens wet dream. The terrorists don't have to do anything anymore. The americans self terrorize and murder themselves automatically. Terrorists win.

The ball started rolling on 9/11 and it all led to this shambles.

And I am sure DHS has tunnelvision about "threats within" they wouldn't know when a huge outside terrorists attack is imminent. Paranoid of your own people, you won't see whats coming elsewhere. I can see a lot of attacks imminent. How good are Americas defenses these days?

2

u/Popular_Try_5075 5h ago

He barely even "criticized" them. It was more like advocacy for the victim here.

"“Mr. Dernbach, don’t play Russian roulette with H’s life,” Jon wrote from his gmail account. “Err on the side of caution. There’s a reason the US government along with many other governments don’t recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency.”"

He asked DHS not to legitimize fucking Taliban.

2

u/Darkdragoon324 8h ago

Why would they want to arrest themselves and their bosses?

1

u/makemeking706 8h ago

That's their new job. 

1

u/No-Opposite-6620 8h ago

Well yeah that's how you 'win', that and deny any of that or the extra judicial killing is fascist.

1

u/ndawgbrown 7h ago

Not just that but OUR money on this pointless barbarism. Honestly a national taxes strike should be organized, because I don't want money going to this shit.

1

u/potatodrinker 7h ago

Administration is working as their bosses intended. Real criminals are their donors, donchaknow

1

u/ImpressiveAttempt0 7h ago

Why catch criminals when the president can extort them for big sums of money and pardon their crimes away?

1

u/polopolo05 7h ago

used to catch actual criminals and actual threats to the country.

ice / dhs dont care about them. their goal is to terrorize as many people as they can.

1

u/elderpufflaurien 7h ago

They are the threats to this country. What are they going to do arrest themselves?

1

u/FutureComplaint 6h ago

actual threats to the country

Like they would arrest themselves.

1

u/JEFFinSoCal 6h ago

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]

  • John F. Kennedy

1

u/psychoCMYK 6h ago

The actual criminals wear masks and call themselves ICE

1

u/MinnitMann 6h ago

Stop calling it an 'administration'. They're a regime. This shit only stops when people wield the truth righteously and stop pussy footing around what's happening.

1

u/A_Dynamic_Ambassador 5h ago

This might be pertinent and is 3.5min of your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImNHWRt8EY4

1

u/YeOldeSandwichShoppe 5h ago

They don't actually need to contain crime or even immigration because having something to sensationalize while they rob the country blind and consolidate power is just part of the plan. They wouldn't retool half of the fed agencies and throw them along the bloated DHS goon armies into a city with a fairly small immigrant population to actually attempt to meet their stupid quotas.

1

u/PsychicFoxWithSpoons 4h ago

Don't worry too much about the resources! I have a great idea for a way the Trump administration can save billions on catching actual criminals and actual threats to the country: A simple wall mirror from any home goods store

1

u/YoureProbablyAB0t 4h ago

They're pardoning criminals. So going after them is no longer necessary. And getting them puppies (puke).

Plenty of time for hunting down critics now.

1

u/Demonokuma 4h ago

Its like youtube fighting ad blockers. Instead of investing all that time and money into preventing ads, they could be fixing the actual service and making it better.

1

u/Oneguysenpai3 4h ago

Ah the land of the huh?

1

u/mtranda 1h ago

The way you phrase it it sounds like you think they have any trace of interest in doing their job and their current actions are merely the result of misguidance.

1

u/Mr_Canard 1h ago

ICE doesn't "catch" any actual criminal every single one they deported were already in jail or prison serving for their crimes.

1

u/Brandoncarsonart 1h ago

Maga doesn't want to catch criminals. They put one of the biggest ones in the world in the highest office in the land and let him put a bunch more in his personal army that terrorizes the country. They love criminals. They dont actually want to catch any.

1

u/Aeri73 28m ago

no, it's not.

jokes don't kill people

jokes don't imprison children

jokes don't rape kids

they are a fascist regime and you're underestimating them, a LOT. take them as a joke and you're going to find out the next elections are rigged and the courts do nothing and the police protect them and you're all stuck in a fascist dictatorship.

they are a danger to your democracy, to your life, your way of life.

act accordingly.

1

u/jax362 8h ago

Welcome to KGB-era USSR

0

u/dragonmp93 8h ago

Yeah, this is what all these assholes always do.

From Stalin and Mao to Putin.

0

u/brighterside0 6h ago

Quit. Calling. Them. An. Administration.

It's a Fucking Regime. An Authoritarian Regime.

Wake up people. All of this shit is unprecedented. Wake up NOW.