Decius wrote:
] flynn23 wrote:
]
] ] ] This is just stupid. If you were a terrorist would YOU
] show
] ] up
] ] ] for the INS roundup?
] ]
] ] that's exactly the point. It makes it much easier to catch
] the
] ] bad guys when everyone else is at the party across town.
]
] Nice try, but if this was the case then they wouldn't have
] arrested so many people. You are over estimating the
] intelligence of your government beaurocrats.
]
] 1. I don't have a problem with the round up, only with the
] arrests.
]
] 2. They arrested people for simple paperwork problems (failed
] to file a change of address form) and "other crimes" which
] presumably includes traffic warrants, something the INS
] usually doesn't care about. They arrested as many people as
] they possibly could.
]
] 3. They arrested enough people to cause a scare, so if they
] run a similar program in another state there will be a large
] number of people who would otherwise have shown up who will
] not show up because they are afraid (maybe they have a traffic
] warrant out). The result is that if the intent is to observe
] who doesn't show, than these efforts will be LESS EFFECTIVE in
] the future because of the arrests. If the government is crafty
] enough to run this as a decoy, then they are crafty enough to
] make sure they don't ruin its usefulness for this purpose in
] the future.
]
] 4. All they had to do with the people who had paper work
] problems is give them an opportunity to fix things. This would
] serve the purpose of stirring up the community enough to
] notice the odd man out, it would get the INS paperwork in
] order, and INS ends up looking like someone you can trust.
]
] 5. Not showing up is a pre-tense for deportation of registered
] aliens. People are afraid to show cause they'll get poped for
] a traffic warrant, and now the feds have a reason to deport
] them.
]
] 6. Basically, the simplest explanation is that this is a
] fishing expedition. They can't haul the whole community in for
] questioning directly, but they've found a loophole that lets
] them net at least a quarter of the community.
]
] 7. The use of force beyond necessity is the definition of
] tyranny. (See 4.)

Exactly.

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