Big announcement, everyone! ICE, the masked paramilitary force that is terrorizing neighborhoods and executing people in the street with the full support of the federal government, will now have each officer wear a body camera. And not a moment too soon!
Of course, if you actually want to see any of that body camera footage, you could file a Freedom of Information Act request. But you’re better off subscribing to ICE’s OnlyFans account where you can find snuff films of ICE beating the absolute shit out of people and/or murdering them for the crime of not wanting their immigrant neighbors to be dragged away from their families. Also a lot of foot pics for some reason.
Anyway, abolish ICE.
In good news, that adorable little boy in the blue bunny hat and his father who ICE nabbed off of the street in Minneapolis and shipped to a measles infested concentration camp in Texas have returned home.
The order to release Liam and his dad came from U.S. District Judge Fred Biery.
“[This case] has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children,” Biery wrote in his order according to ABC News.
Judges matter, folks. And yet on the day I write this, there are Democrats who are still voting to place Trump’s judicial picks on the bench. Absolutely unacceptable.
Anyway, let’s talk more about traumatizing children. Because the same folks who support ICE tearing apart immigrant families have an awful lot to say about how kids have a right to a mom and a dad.
And they’re basing their latest attempt to overturn marriage equality on this argument.
“It’s a mother and a father that bring forth children into the world, and that’s by design, because children need a mother and a father,” professional homophobe Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council says in a video for “Greater Than,” a campaign by 47 anti-LGBTQ+ groups who are seeking to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell ruling.
The campaign’s slogan is “Child rights > adult desires” and the campaign’s visual aesthetic is modeled after the Human Right Campaign’s: the same blue and yellow, the same san serif font, but none of the equality.
In the same Greater Than video, Lila Rose of Live Action says, “Redefining marriage robs children of the natural right to their mother and father.”
Ah. So including my wife and I in the definition of marriage “robs children of the natural right to the mother and father.” I see.
And so it is with a heavy heart that I apologize to Liam Conejo Ramos. See, I thought that his violent and sudden separation from his mother was caused when ICE agents took him away to Measles Camp in Texas along with his father for the “crime” of seeking asylum in the United States. I had no idea that it was actually my fault.
Seriously, though? I’m real tired of being lectured about my fitness as a parent or even as a human being by people who think that disappearing and/or killing mothers and fathers is fine so long as it’s done in the name of keeping America white.
And I sure as hell am not going to be accepting criticism from people who think that the Epstein files are no big deal, thus shrugging off untold numbers of girls who were sexually assaulted and abused by Epstein and allegedly Trump and other rich abusers as well.
You’re accusing me and all LGBTQ+ parents of being a danger to children? How fucking dare you.
The people behind the Greater Than campaign claim they don’t want children to get hurt. They say that they want all kids to grow up in a stable and happy home. And so that’s why they’ve got to overturn marriage equality.
Here’s what I don’t hear them supporting: Paid family leave and universal health care so that a parent can afford to miss work and take a sick kid to the doctor without worrying about how they’ll pay for it. Or how about affordable, high-quality child care? Free school lunches? Paid time off? Access to free or low cost mental health treatment, including marriage and family counseling? Affordable housing? Vaccine mandates so we don’t have outbreaks of formerly eradicated diseases spreading like wildfire? Or how about gun violence prevention since the most common way for a kid to die in the U.S. is being shot?
Nope. Nothing to ease the burden and stress most families feel. Nothing to protect children from actual dangers.
If they want to talk about “Child rights” being greater than “adult desires,” they can start with the desire of these particular adults to hurt queer families and dehumanize LGBTQ+ people.