The TSA is working with ICE to abduct people

Hii, sorry I was out last week resting from doing my first full hour standup set, existential dread, and screaming into the abyss every five seconds after reading the news. I’m back again. Today I’ll be sharing my feelings about ICE working with the TSA to abduct people at airports. Onto the news…

The Transport Security Administration aka the TSA aka the people who threw away all my Model United Nations’ former friend’s lip glosses in college are sharing all passengers’ names with ICE. Of course one fascist arm of the state is working with the other fascist arm to kidnap people who have been labeled as criminals. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. Human movement is not a crime, borders are a crime!

Nonetheless, it would be shocking if the TSA refused to share passenger information with ICE. Can you imagine the TSA saying oh we are okay with violating people’s personal privacy but we draw the line at colluding in human trafficking? You can’t because ultimately the TSA are cops and cops are going to cop.

The ire about the partnership with the TSA and ICE is because it’s “unprecedented and was kept secret”. I’m sorry, when was the last time a kidnapper announced their plans for kidnapping? The whole purpose of a kidnapping is to catch the victim by surprise. That’s why civilians who are thwarting ICE blow whistles when they see ICE agents, to warn their neighbors that the monsters are coming. Of course the department of homeland insecurity did not announce to the people who they plan to abduct about their forthcoming abduction. That would be like beauty companies letting you know they are destroying your self-esteem so you can spend an endless amount of income buying pore reducing toner.

Who said there was a right-sized pore?

Who said there was such a thing as an illegal human?

The same power structure that seeks to maintain power and wealth through extraction and manipulation. Corporations and the state lie to maintain a white supremacist structure that benefits five ugly white men! So can we please stop acting shocked that the United States of America’s government lies? Acting shocked that a state built on kidnapping Black people for forced labor is capable of using all its evil tentacles to snatch predominantly Black and Brown people from the airport is maintaining the notion that the state serves any other purpose other than a tool of brutality.

I wish more media people would say, we found out ICE is working with the TSA. Yes it’s vile but you shouldn’t be surprised and you should assume that all parts of the government are working to maintain this fascist order. They should also state, yes it’s terrible your coworkers keep competing with each other for a middle management position instead of starting an office rebellion and toppling the company. You shouldn’t be surprised because most of us have been brainwashed to seek individual wealth over collective liberation.

Of course it’s terrifying to accept that the institutions you’ve been bamboozled into believing are for you are actually here to maintain white supremacy, imperialism, and all the evil things that happen to you every day. However, I think it’s also freeing because then you aren’t expecting the state that oppresses you to save you. The constant question of why is the government doing this can be replaced with the understanding, of course the government is doing this which is why we must stop it. Maybe then people can stop trying to be middle managers to sell anal bleaching cream and instead build solidarity to topple a structure that oppresses us all and convinces us we need to bleach our butts.

Last week on TikTok I talked about how Nixon’s campaign to subvert Black radicalism worked.

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