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U.S. Military wife detained and deported from Honolulu Airport.
Makes my blood boil. Motherlovers. If Australian law permits it, I'd become a dual citizen and live there, after his tour of duty is up. It's not safe for travelers to come to the USA. Such a deplorable state of affairs. She did everything right. Put in prison overnight with no contact with anyone, until the next morning. No opportunity to even see her husband briefly. And she was with her mother. Imagine the anguish. Because in the Orange Felon's regime, the cruelty is the POINT. Isn't he dead YET? https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/05/24/im-not-criminal-australian-woman-recounts-detention-experience-while-trying-visit-us-military-spouse-hawaii/
I can't. I can't imagine the anguish or the fear or the state of WTF. Disgusting, despicable, the list is near endless. If this is making us great again count me out.
If anyone is still laboring under the delusion that the policing forces of any country are driven by a respect for the rights of an individual this sort of thing puts paid to that.
In my years with San Francisco Public Safety I came to know quite a few policemen fairly well, and in fact became very friendly with several. Under normal operating circumstances almost none of them would go out of their way to harass citizens who were behaving themselves. But as I listened to their stories and joined in their conversations it became evident that there was a very thin veneer between their everyday behavior and what they were capable of if given instructions or permission to do so.
I'm sure that there are exceptions, but I have seen and heard too many things to feel any safety at all from any type of law enforcement officer once they are told to go after someone or some group. There's just something in the makeup of law enforcement types, whether by instinct, training, or jaundice at being constantly exposed to some of the worst in human nature, that allows them to turn off any sense of compassion or proportion when they are turned loose by higher authority.
Hard to pin point where the flaw came from in these professions, whether they are due to the training, the job itself, lack of empathy to their fellow person, or combinations of these factors. Something is not right with these custom officials as they failed to follow their protocols to secure and process this person properly. Wonder how much ICE has to do with this.
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In my years with San Francisco Public Safety I came to know quite a few policemen fairly well, and in fact became very friendly with several. Under normal operating circumstances almost none of them would go out of their way to harass citizens who were behaving themselves. But as I listened to their stories and joined in their conversations it became evident that there was a very thin veneer between their everyday behavior and what they were capable of if given instructions or permission to do so.
I'm sure that there are exceptions, but I have seen and heard too many things to feel any safety at all from any type of law enforcement officer once they are told to go after someone or some group. There's just something in the makeup of law enforcement types, whether by instinct, training, or jaundice at being constantly exposed to some of the worst in human nature, that allows them to turn off any sense of compassion or proportion when they are turned loose by higher authority.