Whistleblower: Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility

Re:Whistleblower: Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility by aaomidi on Monday September 14, 2020 @06:22PM (#24475824)

The US has had a lot of history and practice with forced sterilizations over the centuries. This is nothing "new". It's despicable. It has nothing to do with what party it is. The Democrats and Republicans have both participated and signed off on these.

This is a problem with the state in general, and with unchecked and unmonitored authority. This is why people say ACAB. It's the unchecked authority you give someone (e.g. a cop, border agent, DA, Judges, etc) that create issues like this. It's a matter of removing and reducing authority as much as possible in these systems.

Until we realize that authority is the cause, we are not going to find a proper fix. Everything else is a reactionary bandaid on a systemic issue.

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Re:Whistleblower: Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility by canada_dry on Monday September 14, 2020 @07:42PM (#24476413)

> unchecked and unmonitored authority ... and I'd add: unaccountable

So many disturbing examples e.g. ordering blood be taken from an unconscious person under arrest [i], administering ketamine drugs to arrested people [ii], confiscating property without a warrant [iii]... the list goes on and on.

[i] https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/utah-police-nurse-1.4348819

[ii] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ketamine-injected-ar...

[iii] https://buffalonews.com/news/local/cheektowaga-man-suing-she...

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Re:Whistleblower: Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility by hobby-coder-guy on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:38PM (#24477660)

When did the democrats do this?

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Re:Whistleblower: Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility by aaomidi on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @09:22AM (#24480888)

Obama is directly responsible for the structure of ICE and the various authorities they use to indefinitely imprison people.

He's also responsible for tons of civilians deaths in the middle east.

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Re:Whistleblower: Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility by mekane8 on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @10:15AM (#24481397)

They were asking about forced sterilization though

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Re:Whistleblower: Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility by NautilusWave on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @08:27AM (#24480425)

While not exactly "the democrats", Planned Parenthood has a pretty dark history with eugenics and coerced/forced sterilization of members of marginalized communities. It seems to try and reconcile with its past though to improve itself.

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Re:Whistleblower: Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility by dragonwriter on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:51PM (#24477715)

A lot of it was done by Democrats. Admittedly, largely during the late Third and early Fourth Party Systems, when the dedicated core of the Democratic Party was the ideological antecedent of the present dedicated core of the Republican Party (the names of the major parties have been the same from the Third through the present Sixth party system, but the ideological and geographical alignment of the parties has shifted radically.)

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Re:Whistleblower: Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility by hobby-coder-guy on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @06:11AM (#24479592)

What are you talking about?

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