The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
Archived copies of the article:
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- ghostarchive.org — site has been down intermittently
"I’d like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton–the US 3rd Army–came onto what you might call a detention center just outside the village of Ohrdruf, Germany.
The US Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A US Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes, without muttering a word, that they were to blame.
One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was (quote) ‘done by a few people, and you cannot blame us all.’ And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said, ‘this was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.’
The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don’t know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough.
I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought, ‘how is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.’ Maybe he would have said, ‘this site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?’
But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew–as we do–that we are all responsible for what happens in our community.
I urge the council to take action to stop, or stall, or at the barest minimum to think creatively about how to exercise oversight over this proposed ICE facility. Thank you."
“Vast holding facilities” AKA concentration camps. They still mince their words, but their actions speak clear.
I don’t think assuming that NIMBYs don’t want something in “their backyard” for moral reasons is the right take. NIMBYs by definition are selfish and just don’t want whatever it is near them. It’s “Not In My BackYard”.
The places in these red states are probably more than happy to have some more ICE mega-prisons, just in somebody else’s backyard.
I took the same thing from this article as you. This is part of why Guantanamo Bay never closed; there was no place where the detainees’ presence was tolerated. People don’t want the object of their fear in their backyard. They want it as far away as possible. This is also why the six extermination camps like Auschwitz were not on German soil. Not in Germans’ backyard.
Exactly. These guys love prisons and detention centers, they just want them to be built somewhere else.
Yup. In some cases, I bet it is some of the very same dipshits in the hatriot movement that spent the 90s and 00s telling each other scary stories about FEMA death camps, and how Janet Reno, Hillary and Bill Clinton, and the black helicopters were coming for their penises, er, guns, and throw them into FEMA death camps so that the Socializms could be imposed on Murica.
I suppose it’s probably all fine if it’s being overseen by shitstains like Miller and Pedonald and if the (first) people being targeted are brown, black, liberal, trans, etc…
It’s projection. It’s ALWAYS projection. I’d love to see hatriots tracked over time and what they’ve supported under Donvict.
“Did I say death camps? I meant happy camps.”
Lmao, the MAGAs lose to the ultimate buzz killer, the NIMBYs!
They’re trying to build a prison, for you and me to live in
Another prison system?!
Don’t worry, they don’t want us living in there for long.
Will this be the thing that finally makes Trump’s base abando-
Of course not, don’t be ridiculous.
If this ever ends (notice I said if, not when) right-wing people will still be oblivious that anything happened at all
Yeah they don’t care. Articles like this are lib clickbait “don’t revolt” propaganda. MAGA don’t even KNOW this is happening. Ask one, they’ll be like “What?” Or “yeah for Mexicans”
Ask them if they know the name Pretti, they’ll tell you they’re Pretti tired of your fake news.
It’s a cult. They’ll abandon him a decade or so after he dies.
While I hope you’re right—they’re still saluting Hitler in 2026, so I think this might be a problem for a long time. Especially with how much media there is of him to brainwash future generations.
Yeah until they see themselves in those that are being detained, they won’t give two shits.
Oh wait, they’re incapable of doing that because that would require the insight and empathy they see as detrimental to their existence.
The only good NIMBYs can do
Which Christian sect is the right one, asking for a friend?
The one with Supply Side Jesus.
Would you believe anyone who told you?
Because that would be the actual problem.
An almighty God doesn’t need humans or churches to spread the story.
Trick question?
The one with the universal love stuff
