The Footage of Detainees Arriving in El Salvador is Sickening
You should feel cold, and you should be angry
The President of El Salvador is on a victory lap.
He posted a propaganda video on Twitter(X) showing the process of taking Venezuelan detainees off of the planes—you know, the ones America sent to them even after a judge demanded they stop—and processing them for the work camps.
Yes, the fucking work camps. The literal work camps in El Salvador.
In the video, we see men in chains being hauled off of the plane through a gauntlet of armed men, with cameras shoved in their faces. They are bent double, forced to walk hunched over as men in balaclava masks drag them bodily to the facility.
Inside, the men are forced to their knees. They are held down as masked guards take clippers to their heads, shaving their hair and leaving them bald before they are searched, partially stripped and herded into concrete-and-steel holding cells, packed in like sardines.
This is the CECOT facility in El Salvador. They will be held there for a minimum of one year, renewable. How long will they truly be there? Indefinitely, I imagine.
For what crime are they being detained? Why are they going to a mega prison where they will be subject to forced mandatory slave labour for the duration of their stay?
They were born Venezuelan, and they had the misfortune of being within the borders of the United States. You will note I said Venezuelan, not Salvadoran. Trump is sending people to countries they have never been to, and paying fees to the Salvadoran government to house them there.
Bukele is making a fucking killing off of what amounts to a literal slave trade. He describes himself as ‘the world’s coolest dictator’ by the way, just a fun fact.
The United States government is engaged in a modern-day international slave trading scheme with ‘the world’s coolest dictator.’
And as I pointed out a few days ago, they’re doing it against a judge’s lawful command to stop. They’re saying that the judge has no right to prevent the President from doing what he wants.
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When a judge tells you to stop doing something, you stop, or you face penalties.
Except he can, because it’s literally in the fucking Constitution that a judge can provide a barrier to Presidential overreach if a crime is taking place. It’s in Article III. It’s called Judicial Review.
That’s one of those pesky checks and balances that are supposed to exist.
But, then, nobody has ever accused Donald Trump of giving a flying wet fuck about the United States Constitution—or of having any consideration for human life, freedom, basic decency or any such notions.
This is an incredible violation of human rights, and it is a horrific escalation of the rhetoric Trump has been spouting for years. This is a genuine concentration camp, a full on ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ situation, albeit outsourced to another country’s soil.
I sincerely hope that anyone who voted for Donald Trump can sleep through the night.
I certainly wouldn’t be able to.
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It seems, for now, that the judicial branch is slowing their roll, at least in public anyway. Do I now suspect that future flights will be carried out in secrecy. You bet'cha. Does Trump truly care about what some lower court, federal judge says? Probably not, but he does value public opinion, and he knows that the optics of this debacle was bad. So, he will most likely continue with classified flights from now on. With his ever-increasing choke hold the U.S. mainstream media, he might get away with this for a while, until some independent reporters, like Zeteo or Ken Klippenstein expose him. That is what I want to see. What will Trump do when he is outed again?
This means that no one is safe in the US and anyone could be plucked off the street and be never seen again. Already it's been made plain that anyone wanting to travel to the US even if they have the right paperwork and/or are a resident/green card holder is likely to be arrested by ICE at the border and detained. In the present situation wanting to visit the US for any reason would be utter insanity.