ICE Expansion and the Architecture of a Security State
The militarization of American cities by ICE is being addressed, or not addressed, around constitutional, moral, and practical questions familiar to Americans from sixty years of debates over “law and order.” Does ICE’s deployment follow the law? What kind of deference is law enforcement due? Is the force deployed by ICE proportional to the threat? And, in general, is it appropriate to oppose the fact that a duly-elected president who was put into office on a promise of deporting illegal immigrants is actually fulfilling that promise? All of these are worthy questions on which reasonable people can disagree. But they are not the most relevant questions, and their relative irrelevance is why they have been embraced so enthusiastically by both political parties and their corporate media outlets. These questions keep the conversation on safely ahistoric ground, distracting from the question of what ICE’s expansion represents structurally. Namely, the accelerating growth of unconstitutional arrangements, institutions, laws, and precedents that create our Founders’ ultimate fear: a domestic military force and its concomitant institutional supports...
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/ice-expansion-and-the-architecture-of-a-security-state/
The militarization of American cities by ICE is being addressed, or not addressed, around constitutional, moral, and practical questions familiar to Americans from sixty years of debates over “law and order.” Does ICE’s deployment follow the law? What kind of deference is law enforcement due? Is the force deployed by ICE proportional to the threat? And, in general, is it appropriate to oppose the fact that a duly-elected president who was put into office on a promise of deporting illegal immigrants is actually fulfilling that promise? All of these are worthy questions on which reasonable people can disagree. But they are not the most relevant questions, and their relative irrelevance is why they have been embraced so enthusiastically by both political parties and their corporate media outlets. These questions keep the conversation on safely ahistoric ground, distracting from the question of what ICE’s expansion represents structurally. Namely, the accelerating growth of unconstitutional arrangements, institutions, laws, and precedents that create our Founders’ ultimate fear: a domestic military force and its concomitant institutional supports...
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/ice-expansion-and-the-architecture-of-a-security-state/
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ICE Expansion and the Architecture of a Security State | The Libertarian Institute
The militarization of American cities by ICE is being addressed, or not addressed, around constitutional, moral, and practical questions familiar to Americans from sixty years of debates over “law and order.” Does ICE’s deployment follow the law? What kind…
ICE Is Freezing Out the Constitution
Mass deportations poll well, in part because many Americans believe immigrants should “get in line” and follow the law. However, the core issue isn’t a nation’s right to enforce its borders. When people are willing to overlook constitutional violations to “solve the problem,” they reveal a deeper disregard for the principles of liberty and individual rights that define America. If we abandon those first principles in moments of fear or frustration, we have to ask whether we still deserve to call ourselves a free society.
Regardless of one’s views on immigration levels or deportation policy, constitutional rights cannot be suspended to achieve policy ends. The Constitution applies to everyone within U.S. borders—citizen and non‑citizen alike...
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/ice-is-freezing-out-the-constitution/
Mass deportations poll well, in part because many Americans believe immigrants should “get in line” and follow the law. However, the core issue isn’t a nation’s right to enforce its borders. When people are willing to overlook constitutional violations to “solve the problem,” they reveal a deeper disregard for the principles of liberty and individual rights that define America. If we abandon those first principles in moments of fear or frustration, we have to ask whether we still deserve to call ourselves a free society.
Regardless of one’s views on immigration levels or deportation policy, constitutional rights cannot be suspended to achieve policy ends. The Constitution applies to everyone within U.S. borders—citizen and non‑citizen alike...
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/ice-is-freezing-out-the-constitution/
The Libertarian Institute
ICE Is Freezing Out the Constitution | The Libertarian Institute
Mass deportations poll well, in part because many Americans believe immigrants should “get in line” and follow the law. However, the core issue isn't a nation's right to enforce its borders. When people are willing to overlook constitutional violations to…
We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
Reporting Highlights
Americans Detained: The government doesn’t track how many citizens are held by immigration agents. We found more than 170 cases this year where citizens were detained at raids and protests.
Held Incommunicado: More than 20 citizens have reported being held for over a day without being able to call their loved ones or a lawyer. In some cases their families couldn’t find them.
Cases Wilted: Agents have arrested about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, for allegedly interfering with or assaulting officers, yet those cases were often dropped.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will
Reporting Highlights
Americans Detained: The government doesn’t track how many citizens are held by immigration agents. We found more than 170 cases this year where citizens were detained at raids and protests.
Held Incommunicado: More than 20 citizens have reported being held for over a day without being able to call their loved ones or a lawyer. In some cases their families couldn’t find them.
Cases Wilted: Agents have arrested about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, for allegedly interfering with or assaulting officers, yet those cases were often dropped.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will
ProPublica
We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns
...Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects. Started about a decade ago to fight illegal border-related activities and the trafficking of both drugs and people, it has expanded over the past five years....
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd
...Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects. Started about a decade ago to fight illegal border-related activities and the trafficking of both drugs and people, it has expanded over the past five years....
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd
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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
Border Patrol’s monitoring of US drivers raises privacy concerns | Biometric Update
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202511/border-patrols-monitoring-of-us-drivers-raises-privacy-concerns
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202511/border-patrols-monitoring-of-us-drivers-raises-privacy-concerns
Biometric Update
Border Patrol’s monitoring of US drivers raises privacy concerns
U.S. Border Patrol has quietly built a nationwide vehicle tracking system that functions much like location surveillance but without ever touching a car’s GPS.
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America: The Now Tyrannical Sadistic Police State
Both the right and left love war so long as their guy’s in power, they both want dependency on government, they both desire money, power and control, they both cheer on censorship, mass surveillance, and full digitization. They both supported the fake ‘covid’ lockdowns and mass murder of the elderly, they both, especially Trump, wanted poisonous lethal injections for all, they both want to spend and advance trillions in debt, all while the people starve. So what is the real difference? There is none.
But now we are at a crossroads, because heinous police-state tactics; tracking, tracing, full surveillance, censorship, warrantless searches and seizures, masked Gestapo-type cretins on the streets, martial law, property confiscation, elimination of due process, and State IDs are accepted by both when in power, but met with feigned ‘resistance’ when out of power. Contradictory, hypocritical; of course it is, but that is the way of politicians and all those who accept and support them.
https://www.garydbarnett.com/america-the-now-tyrannical-sadistic-police-state/
Both the right and left love war so long as their guy’s in power, they both want dependency on government, they both desire money, power and control, they both cheer on censorship, mass surveillance, and full digitization. They both supported the fake ‘covid’ lockdowns and mass murder of the elderly, they both, especially Trump, wanted poisonous lethal injections for all, they both want to spend and advance trillions in debt, all while the people starve. So what is the real difference? There is none.
But now we are at a crossroads, because heinous police-state tactics; tracking, tracing, full surveillance, censorship, warrantless searches and seizures, masked Gestapo-type cretins on the streets, martial law, property confiscation, elimination of due process, and State IDs are accepted by both when in power, but met with feigned ‘resistance’ when out of power. Contradictory, hypocritical; of course it is, but that is the way of politicians and all those who accept and support them.
https://www.garydbarnett.com/america-the-now-tyrannical-sadistic-police-state/
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America: The Now Tyrannical Sadistic Police State - GaryDBarnett.com
By: Gary D. Barnett “A police state is a country run by criminals” ~ Robert Harris SUBSCRIBE TO GARY D. BARNETT ON SUBSTACK TO GET THIS AND OTHER FULL ARTICLES! Become a paid subscriber to gain full access to this... Continue Reading…
Americans Have Abandoned (Lost) All Logic and Reason
In today’s world considering the U.S., logic, reason, and common sense have been abandoned, and replaced with ignorance, dependency, and indifference; all to such a degree as to have made impotent the intellect of Americans. Critical thinking and acting on that solid premise, have completely disappeared in favor of desertion of reality, truth, and moral behavior. As Mason Carter said: “A critical thinker is not someone who knows all the answers, but someone who keeps asking better questions.” Americans no longer ask questions, they no longer seek truth, but they expect to be entirely taken care of by governing forces. This is not just an attitude of the expectation of enslavement, but is one of a slave who has given up entirely, and now just waits for whatever consequences are forthcoming, hoping only to survive.
We in this country are in the midst of a hell on earth. This hell is all-consuming, as it covers every aspect of life and being. It is at once economic, financial, personal, restrictive, immoral, aggressive, and revolting; all while global technocratic rule is pursued with unlimited nocuous vigor. This is not organic at any level whatsoever, it has been a long-term, pre-planned takeover of the hearts, minds, and souls of the masses in order to build a global oligarchical totalitarian system of rule, fully dependent on a master/slave relationship where the few rule and totally control the many.
https://www.garydbarnett.com/americans-have-abandoned-lost-all-logic-and-reason/
In today’s world considering the U.S., logic, reason, and common sense have been abandoned, and replaced with ignorance, dependency, and indifference; all to such a degree as to have made impotent the intellect of Americans. Critical thinking and acting on that solid premise, have completely disappeared in favor of desertion of reality, truth, and moral behavior. As Mason Carter said: “A critical thinker is not someone who knows all the answers, but someone who keeps asking better questions.” Americans no longer ask questions, they no longer seek truth, but they expect to be entirely taken care of by governing forces. This is not just an attitude of the expectation of enslavement, but is one of a slave who has given up entirely, and now just waits for whatever consequences are forthcoming, hoping only to survive.
We in this country are in the midst of a hell on earth. This hell is all-consuming, as it covers every aspect of life and being. It is at once economic, financial, personal, restrictive, immoral, aggressive, and revolting; all while global technocratic rule is pursued with unlimited nocuous vigor. This is not organic at any level whatsoever, it has been a long-term, pre-planned takeover of the hearts, minds, and souls of the masses in order to build a global oligarchical totalitarian system of rule, fully dependent on a master/slave relationship where the few rule and totally control the many.
https://www.garydbarnett.com/americans-have-abandoned-lost-all-logic-and-reason/
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Americans Have Abandoned (Lost) All Logic and Reason - GaryDBarnett.com
By: Gary D. Barnett “It’s no use looking for logical solutions when you are dealing with illogical people.” ~ Steven Redhead, Life’s Events In Focus I must preface my statements here by saying that I believe that pure logic and the ability... Continue Reading…
ICE Demonstrates Why We Need the Second Amendment
https://reason.com/2026/01/23/ice-demonstrates-why-we-need-the-second-amendment/
https://reason.com/2026/01/23/ice-demonstrates-why-we-need-the-second-amendment/
The Trap and Insanity of Reliance on a Pre-planned, Politically-Motivated Government ‘Constitution’
...Any acceptance of a political constitution is a confession that one embraces and voluntarily accepts being a slave of the State. Of course, the same can be said of all who vote for a master to rule over them. No State can give ‘rights,’ so therefore, no State can claim to define rights. All rights can be sourced back to a single natural law. That is, every individual on earth has a right to his own life. This one fact requires that each individual has a right to defend his life, (self-defense) he has a right to sustain his life, which means he has a right to his property, of which his most sacred property is self, he has a right to not be impeded in any manner so long as he harms no one or their property, and does not infringe on any of these natural rights of others. He has a right to be left alone. He does not have any ‘right’ to free medical care, he does not have any right to another’s property, whether via tax or other theft, he has no right to get a particular wage, he has no right to a job regardless of ethnicity, he has no right to a home, he has no right to State ‘welfare,’ he has no right to block the speech or movement of anyone who is not aggressing against him. No piece of government paper can change this truth...
https://www.garydbarnett.com/the-trap-and-insanity-of-reliance-on-a-pre-planned-politically-motivated-government-constitution/
...Any acceptance of a political constitution is a confession that one embraces and voluntarily accepts being a slave of the State. Of course, the same can be said of all who vote for a master to rule over them. No State can give ‘rights,’ so therefore, no State can claim to define rights. All rights can be sourced back to a single natural law. That is, every individual on earth has a right to his own life. This one fact requires that each individual has a right to defend his life, (self-defense) he has a right to sustain his life, which means he has a right to his property, of which his most sacred property is self, he has a right to not be impeded in any manner so long as he harms no one or their property, and does not infringe on any of these natural rights of others. He has a right to be left alone. He does not have any ‘right’ to free medical care, he does not have any right to another’s property, whether via tax or other theft, he has no right to get a particular wage, he has no right to a job regardless of ethnicity, he has no right to a home, he has no right to State ‘welfare,’ he has no right to block the speech or movement of anyone who is not aggressing against him. No piece of government paper can change this truth...
https://www.garydbarnett.com/the-trap-and-insanity-of-reliance-on-a-pre-planned-politically-motivated-government-constitution/
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The Trap and Insanity of Reliance on a Pre-planned, Politically-Motivated Government 'Constitution' - GaryDBarnett.com
By: Gary D. Barnett “It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men’s property, which they had not before, as individuals.” ~ Lysander... Continue…
Full-Out, Digitized Technocratic Rule Is not Around the Corner, It Is Next Door
Are you watching or waiting? Are you awake or asleep? Are you questioning or staying silent? Or are you completely indifferent, meaning you have given up? Sadly, most in this country are waiting, asleep, silent, and avoiding at all costs the importance of reality and truth, and are living in fear. This seems to be the normal attitude of the bulk of this population, and that is a vital sign of capitulation to the governing forces and rule, and to mass acceptance of physical, psychological, and financial slavery...
https://www.garydbarnett.com/full-out-digitized-technocratic-rule-is-not-around-the-corner-it-is-next-door/
Are you watching or waiting? Are you awake or asleep? Are you questioning or staying silent? Or are you completely indifferent, meaning you have given up? Sadly, most in this country are waiting, asleep, silent, and avoiding at all costs the importance of reality and truth, and are living in fear. This seems to be the normal attitude of the bulk of this population, and that is a vital sign of capitulation to the governing forces and rule, and to mass acceptance of physical, psychological, and financial slavery...
https://www.garydbarnett.com/full-out-digitized-technocratic-rule-is-not-around-the-corner-it-is-next-door/
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Full-Out, Digitized Technocratic Rule Is not Around the Corner, It Is Next Door - GaryDBarnett.com
By: Gary D. Barnett “They failed to see that globalisation was merely a tactic to prise power from nation states towards international conglomerates. Once the power was siphoned from the people and democratic control was circumvented, the ability to assert...…
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MAGA: Proudly cheerleading for the surveillance panopticon police state, one ‘Just Comply’ at a time.
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3-2-1: On winning and losing, making the most of accidents, and when waiting doesn't work - James Clear
https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1/february-12-2026
https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1/february-12-2026
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3-2-1: On winning and losing, making the most of accidents, and when waiting doesn’t work
3 IDEAS FROM ME I. “The loser has more in common with the winner than with the person sitting on the sidelines. The winner and the loser each had the courage to try. Both risked embarrassment. Both were willing to face uncertainty. Both were stubborn enough…
The Carefully Contrived Spontaneity of the “Shocking” Epstein Files Release
Whenever a “scandal” like the Epstein files dominates the news, we can be certain that it is meant as a distraction from something more sinister on the horizon.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/carefully-contrived-spontaneity-shocking-epstein-files-release/5916350
Whenever a “scandal” like the Epstein files dominates the news, we can be certain that it is meant as a distraction from something more sinister on the horizon.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/carefully-contrived-spontaneity-shocking-epstein-files-release/5916350
BREAKING STUDY: MMR and MMRV Vaccines Linked to 2,657% More U.S. Deaths Than Measles Infection Since 1995
We found an alarming number of deaths among infants and toddlers shortly after MMR/MMRV vaccination in VAERS — often involving SIDS, seizures, and cardiac arrest.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/mmr-mmrv-vaccines-more-us-deaths-measles-infection/5916326
We found an alarming number of deaths among infants and toddlers shortly after MMR/MMRV vaccination in VAERS — often involving SIDS, seizures, and cardiac arrest.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/mmr-mmrv-vaccines-more-us-deaths-measles-infection/5916326
The AI Package: Toxic Distraction From Acquiring Knowledge: Resisting a “Pandemic of Mass Mediocrity”
We are drowning in a sea of hyperbole and quick fire messaging. An adrenaline fix for many – its adherents have developed an inseparable relationship with their smartphones or similar devices plus an increasingly all consuming fascination with innovations like ChatGPT.
‘Keeping up to date’ with never ending streams of information is an almost reflexive action for many. Just be in a public place and observe human activity – the staccato like frequency that the phone is pulled from the pocket to check for any new incoming communication.
The great majority of words and images passing through this medium are as superficial as the thousands of unprompted ephemeral and worthless thoughts that pass through our minds every hour of the day, blocking our our calm and clear perceptions.
Very rare are carefully considered responses and expressions of deep thinking in this form of exchange...
https://www.globalresearch.ca/resisting-pandemic-mass-mediocrity/5916065
We are drowning in a sea of hyperbole and quick fire messaging. An adrenaline fix for many – its adherents have developed an inseparable relationship with their smartphones or similar devices plus an increasingly all consuming fascination with innovations like ChatGPT.
‘Keeping up to date’ with never ending streams of information is an almost reflexive action for many. Just be in a public place and observe human activity – the staccato like frequency that the phone is pulled from the pocket to check for any new incoming communication.
The great majority of words and images passing through this medium are as superficial as the thousands of unprompted ephemeral and worthless thoughts that pass through our minds every hour of the day, blocking our our calm and clear perceptions.
Very rare are carefully considered responses and expressions of deep thinking in this form of exchange...
https://www.globalresearch.ca/resisting-pandemic-mass-mediocrity/5916065
Agents of Misfortune
People are putting way too much trust in AI systems, giving them the ability to act on their behalf. It’s a recipe for disaster. Don’t do it… at least not yet.
https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/agents-of-misfortune/
People are putting way too much trust in AI systems, giving them the ability to act on their behalf. It’s a recipe for disaster. Don’t do it… at least not yet.
https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/agents-of-misfortune/
Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons
Agents of Misfortune - Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons
Artificial Intelligence features are being added to everything. But giving these tools agency to act on your behalf, without supervision, is very risky today.
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NEW - Max Jones investigates Robert Kadlec, a veteran of biowarfare with longstanding connections to the National Security State and corrupt government contractors as well as controversial Covid-19 policies, who has now become the head of counterproliferation policy at the Department of War.
Read the story here: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/02/investigative-reports/robert-kadlec-the-man-behind-trumps-biowarfare-policy/
Read the story here: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/02/investigative-reports/robert-kadlec-the-man-behind-trumps-biowarfare-policy/
Just a drill perhaps? Let's see what laws are conveniently proposed in response. And curious about an 18 yr old driving a Mercedes to do someyhing like this 🤔
..."Just last summer, we held an active threat exercise on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol – in the very location where today’s officers stopped the suspect," Sullivan said in a news release. "These now routine exercises are planned monthly and in different areas of the Capitol Complex to keep our officers ready for potential threats just like this."
Sullivan reiterated during a news conference that Capitol Police conduct active shooter drills every month, including one in nearly the same location in recent months...
https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-man-capitol-shotgun-motive-investigation
..."Just last summer, we held an active threat exercise on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol – in the very location where today’s officers stopped the suspect," Sullivan said in a news release. "These now routine exercises are planned monthly and in different areas of the Capitol Complex to keep our officers ready for potential threats just like this."
Sullivan reiterated during a news conference that Capitol Police conduct active shooter drills every month, including one in nearly the same location in recent months...
https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-man-capitol-shotgun-motive-investigation
Fox News
Investigators seek motive after Georgia man allegedly ran toward Capitol with loaded shotgun
Police arrested an 18-year-old Georgia man accused of rushing toward the Capitol with a loaded shotgun. Investigators are working to determine his motive.
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We Were Today Years Old When We Found Out Why Baby Carrots Are Always Wet
So what actually makes the baby carrots wet? It all has to do with processing. “After peeling and shaping, they’re thoroughly washed with potable water and briefly treated with a mild chlorine rinse to reduce harmful bacteria...
https://www.eatingwell.com/why-baby-carrots-are-wet-11887342
We Were Today Years Old When We Found Out Why Baby Carrots Are Always Wet
So what actually makes the baby carrots wet? It all has to do with processing. “After peeling and shaping, they’re thoroughly washed with potable water and briefly treated with a mild chlorine rinse to reduce harmful bacteria...
https://www.eatingwell.com/why-baby-carrots-are-wet-11887342
EatingWell
We Were Today Years Old When We Found Out Why Baby Carrots Are Always Wet
Food experts explain why baby carrots are wet, how to store them and when they’re safe to eat.