The purpose of ICE atrocities [View all]

My take - they are being pushed to break the law, and have been told they have complete immunity.

They know that "immunity" goes away if Trump is toppled.



This is a very dark way of guaranteeing absolute loyalty to the regime. They know that if Trump and his cohorts go out of power, they will face serious consequences.

Hitler used atrocity to shape the SS.


"Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats of violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery. They have not thought about it (incredible as this may appear to anyone who reads the papers or listens to the news) and they just don’t know what to do. When they look right into the face of depravity or violence they are astonished and confounded."
Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society


"But we must not deny it. if we look around the world carefully we will find somebody somewhere wielding the dark power of atrocity to support a cause we believe in. It is a simple tenet of human nature that is difficult to believe and accept that anyone we like and identify with is capable of these acts against our own fellow human beings. And this simple, naive tendency to disbelieve or look the other way is, possible more than any other factor, responsible for the perpetuation of atrocity and horror in our world today."
Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society