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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDHS Employees Are Worried The Portland Protest Response Is Destroying Their Agency's Reputation
The Department of Homeland Securitys response to antipolice brutality protests in Portland, Oregon, has disturbed and angered many employees, who called the deployment of the federal force an unusual maneuver that could do long-term damage to the agencys reputation.
In recent days, Oregon leaders, including the governor, have called on DHS officers to leave Portland as nightly protests have grown in size. Videos captured by protesters and media have shown the consistent use of tear gas and other "less than lethal" weapons from officers guarding the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse in downtown Portland amid a backdrop of federal officers outfitted in camouflage snatching people off the street in unmarked vehicles.
The Trump administration and senior DHS officials have said the federal response in Portland where officers from US Customs and Border Protection and ICE are deployed is necessary to protect the federal courthouse from damage, and they have called some protesters violent criminals. The situation in Portland, theyve added, is unique and requires a federal response due to local leaders apparent unwillingness to help protect federal property.
But conversations with 17 DHS employees, all of whom requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, reveal that many at the agency disagree with the show of force. Some called for an investigation, while others said they feared the long-term consequences for the agencys reputation.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/dhs-employee-anger-over-portland-protest-response
Wounded Bear
(58,773 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,034 posts)drray23
(7,638 posts)of German right wing stuff. The motherland was a central theme in Hitler's propaganda.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,860 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)But Germany was the fatherland.
Russia is a motherland.
fwiw.
-Laelth
burrowowl
(17,655 posts)Solly Mack
(90,800 posts)Alrighty then.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Dan
(3,587 posts)That they should not be under the Executive branch, because Trump will and is using them like his private police. There are too many examples in history that make me concerned.
Plus, as someone said - after caging children, taking babies from their parents - one has to ask, what wont they do for this POTUS?
I am thinking more and more, the total organization should be disbanded - and the criminal elements of this organization - charged for crimes against humanity.
USCG back to Transportation, SS back to Treasury, etc.
That said, SCOTUS has taken the position that almost every federal employee down to the local mail carrier is an at will employee of the President as per the Consumer Protection Agency decision. Either SCOTUS needs to change (I don't see it), or we need a constitutional amendment.
triron
(22,030 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)The one where they abuse children by keeping them in cages? The one where they sniff your underwear at the border to make sure you aren't carrying a bomb? The one where they can pull you over within 100 miles of an international airport and demand to see your papers?
What reputation? As Gestapo Wannabes?
CountAllVotes
(20,882 posts)FEAR and the War on Terror!
Ms. Toad
(34,126 posts)and they shoudl stop following orders and/or resign.
"Just following orders," is not a defense to following illegal orders.
C_U_L8R
(45,035 posts)It was a carelessly planned and unnecessary organization that's been abused for political profit. It needs to go away.
onecaliberal
(32,990 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)superpatriotman
(6,254 posts)Time to dismantle this fascist jobs program
crickets
(25,990 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I suppose now those people snatched off the street or beaten with batons should all just shut up now, because it really hurts DHS employees' feelings.
Faux pas
(14,705 posts)have a different take who those storm troopers are/might be. I have a vision of stephen miller recruiting militia members and those effers are just a bunch of privately hired white nationalist thugs.
matt819
(10,749 posts)Not destroying.
Sanity Claws
(21,866 posts)Did they really think they had any reputation to salvage after putting children in cages?
hatrack
(59,602 posts)FUCK DHS.
Fuck these sub-Blart buffoons and their "concerns".
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I'm starting to think the DHS should be "defunded".
bottomofthehill
(8,364 posts)They were not loved before and hated now.
LiberalFighter
(51,298 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)No agency will want any of you.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,860 posts)"Not in my wildest dreams, Frank. Welp, nuthin' we can do about it. Coming over Saturday for my cook-out? I just had a huge new patio installed."
"You bet, Bob!"
MurrayDelph
(5,304 posts)But facism IS their agency's reputation, ever since Joe fucking-Lieberman came up with the Department of Das Vaterland Security.
Hekate
(91,003 posts)Cha
(297,986 posts)working for DHS.. and of course they want anonymity.. they'd lose their jobs in a heartbeat if the "gestapo" found out.
peggysue2
(10,849 posts)How about destroying our democratic Republic, asshats? The country has to survive this illegal assault before any agency starts boo-hooing about their reputation and legacy.
Because the cart without the horse doesn't travel too far.
And they requested anonymity to voice these 'concerns'.
pecosbob
(7,548 posts)We'll fix your little wagon after we repeal the Patriot Act and pass the new ban on federal hiring of PMCs.