Re: California Bill to Prohibit Law Enforcement from Wearing Masks

On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
wrote:

On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:
 

 On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
 wrote:
 

 On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:
 

 On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
 wrote:
 

 On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:
 

 The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE
 agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but
 there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their
ability to
 work undercover in future cases.

 
 When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed
 roundup they can have that privilege then.

 
 They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out
 assignments
 all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's immigration case
 today and
 working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human trafficking
 case tomorrow.

 
 You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too much credit

 
 No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement agency as
 opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law enforcement
 works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it.

 
I doubt you know how normal law enforcement procedure works at all
jackass, these people have been caught on tape doing exactly what I
said.

Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt means I don't know as much as
some rando on Usenet.

Yep, that checks out.

 -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers who have
 been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent bystanders for no
 good reason. Behavior that would get normal law enforcement officers
 fired.

 
 Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning impotently
on
 Usenet about it. Whatever.

 
You're the one who started impotently moaning on Usenet about
California deciding their own policy for face masks when arresting
residents on their own streets.

But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on what agenda item
today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish -- they use it
(abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at their convenience.

Anyone who knows anything about states' rights (which apparently excludes you
from the Venn diagram) knows that if the Constitution expressly gives the
federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the states have no "rights" over
that thing.

The federal government has an express grant of jurisdiction over immigration
in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of federal power over
abortion (or even health care in general) in the Constitution.

That's why states have no jurisdiction or business whatsoever with regard to
immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states *do* have
jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion.

These are things you should have learned in grade school. But I suppose the
proto-communists who run our public schools these days are too busy teaching
about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism than teaching kids how their
government actually works.