Those who might have been following along from a previous discussion that has been taking place for about a decade now, I have a new salvo.
When s9, Biz and I talk about our worst case scenarios for a future America where the movement conservatives are able to run the table politically, the vision I get is an America that resembles Northern Ireland about 35 years ago.
Today, I picked up on a piece from Comrade Joshua's Teashop and Sedition Lab that discusses an investigation by Utah state officials of a memo from "Concerned Citizens of the United States" detailing a list of 1,300 people whom the concerned citizenry group claims are illegal immigrants.
Here's the nut from AP's Brock Vergakis:
The anonymous group mailed the list to several media outlets, law enforcement agencies and others this week, frightening the state's Hispanic community. A letter accompanying the list demanded that those on it be deported immediately.
The list also contains highly detailed personal information such as Social Security numbers, birth dates, workplaces, addresses and phone numbers. Names of children are included, along with due dates of pregnant women on the list.
Republican Gov. Gary Herbert wrote in a tweet Tuesday that he has asked state agencies to investigate the list's origin.
It should not, of course, come as a surprise that there aren't a lot of "Thibaults" and "O'Briens" on the list; it is primarily made up of Hispanic names, according to published reports.
And as an aside, given the current nature of the AP, I'm surprised this even got reported. Slow news day?... but that's another post...
Given the nature of the information on there, such as detailed locations, Socials and even pregnancy status of women, it would appear, at least to me that this is an inside job, or at least had collaborators in local, state and perhaps even federal government.
Some of the information, such as detailed health info on pregnant women is covered by the criminal codicils of HIPPA, the federal health care privacy and records protection law. You break that law, you go to jail, RealJail™.
Okay, okay... what does this have to do with Na Trioblóidí? One of the defining aspects of The Troubles was a complacent government in Belfast in cahoots with supposedly outlawed right wing paramilitary organizations like the "Ulster Defence Regiment Association." (Fixed: hat tip to wirehead Ed. Thanks Ed, you get a cookie...or should I say "biscuit?")
Police collusion with anti-Catholic, anti-liberal and anti-Irish terrorist cells was common place and the those in government who did not take an active part regularly looked the other way while abuses took place.
Combine this Utah memo with the activities of their less-than-neighborly neighbors to the south in Arizona who apparently are looking the other way while racist paramilitary units shoot up the border with Mexico, and this is exactly the kind of shit I'm talking about.
Now mix all that with the rhetoric spewing from the current crop of GOP assrags and nimrods spooging for office right now; "Gather Your Armies," indeed...
This is the kind of crap that is going to put a terrible thing into motion that no one wants to even contemplate, much less will be able to stop if it really gets rolling...
mojo sends
