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This is going to be Bad Ep. 10

Richard Crim
3 min readJul 25, 2020

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There are two America’s. They see Covid-19 and how to respond to it very differently.

The news this week has been at a surreal level of dystopian scariness. American citizens have been snatched off the street by men in paramilitary uniforms, forced into unmarked vans, and hauled away.

Without probable cause, without identification by the men kidnapping them. Because it was not an arrest, detaining someone in this fashion is by definition kidnapping. Without advisement of their Miranda rights. Without any of the due process of law that supposedly distinguishes the US from a police state or third world dictatorship.

When did ICE and CBP build an army that’s under the personal control of the President?

Who authorized this?

Where did the money to pay their salaries, train, and equip them come from?

How many of them are there?

How long has this been going on and why did…

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Richard Crim
Richard Crim

Written by Richard Crim

My entire life can be described in one sentence: Things didn’t go as planned, and I’m OK with that.

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