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Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data by charcircuit on Sunday January 25, 2026 @11:56PM (#46762028)
Nothing can justify disorderly protests. I don't care about what caused someone to break the law. I care that law is enforced.
Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data by defrost on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:38AM (#46762514)
Good to hear you're onboard with prosecuting Federal agents pretending to have local traffic enforcement powers and murdering citizens during illegal traffic stops.

Currently the Federal level is blocking the State prosecuting such clear breaches of the law.

Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data by zahlman on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:45AM (#46767901)
> Good to hear you're onboard with prosecuting Federal agents pretending to have local traffic enforcement powers and murdering citizens during illegal traffic stops.

Approaching a vehicle that is already stopped, perpendicular to traffic, initially to tell the driver to move and then to make an arrest for obstruction of justice, is not a "traffic stop", and the agents in question therefore did not in any way "pretend to have local traffic enforcement powers". ICE are legally entitled to require protesters to get out of their way. That's a consequence of them being federal LEO, and of federal law prohibiting everyone from obstructing LEO (which includes things like physically shielding others from arrest, impeding their movement towards whatever place they need to get to to do their job, etc.). Protesting and asserting 1A rights is not a defense to the charge of obstruction of justice.

Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data by azan_ on Monday January 26, 2026 @04:25AM (#46763494)
> Nothing can justify disorderly protests. I don't care about what caused someone to break the law. I care that law is enforced.

But you do care what caused someone to break the law - you just said that if breaking the law (murdering someone) was for keeping order then it's ok. It's very easy to see that you agree with enforcing "law" just because you agree with current administration (otherwise it's very hard to argue that what ICE is doing has anything to do with being lawful).

Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data by pbhjpbhj on Monday January 26, 2026 @12:02PM (#46768166)
Obviously rushing to the aid of a fellow human who was assaulted by a masked person for no reason other than to act out that person's longing for violence might be "disorderly" to you. To the rest of us it's called compassionate, human, democratic. It isn't against any written law in USA, any law passed by a democratic legislative body.

You have no care for the law nor for humanity. You're supporting summary execution by a stasi; you seriously need to step back and reconsider your belief system.

Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @12:25PM (#46783169)
"Disorderly" protests are protected by the first amendment. No justification is needed. That is the law. Enforce that law and stop ICE from harassing people just for exercising their fundamental rights.