piefed.eeUS sending ICE unit to Winter Olympics for security, prompting concern and confusion in Italy
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“I don’t see what the problem would be.” - Italian Interior Ministere Matteo Piantedosi
Imagine not having an imagination.
slothropFascism? In Italy?!
TropicalDingdongIt’s like the throw back episode where the new actor for the role meets the old, popular actor from the decades old series in a brief cameo.
Ah yes. Using your country’s immigration police in a location where it is physically impossible to enter your country. Truly 4D checkers.
Sounds like a perfect opportunity for a sting operation. ICE comes to Italy. Doesn’t understand they have no jurisdiction. They all get arrested and thrown into jail.
DeceptichumYou think fascist like Meloni are against Trump?
RhaedasI would like that very much, but its unlikely any of them have broken Italian laws, so it would probably be unlawful arrests (and then they would get let go)
This is the equivalent of using the Hells Angels as security at the Altamont concert. Didn’t end well.
itisileclerkWhy? Seriosly, why?
There is precedent to “borrow” investigators and even gunmen from other orgs to provide security for the politicians and athletes (residual fear from Munich 72). DHS have apparently been used on past trips.
Of course, that isn’t what is happening here. fuckface wants his gestapo out in force. The real question being whether he wants to attack “illegal immigrants” anywhere he goes or if he just heard that other countries get to have people with guns and he likes those people with guns.
I’m seriously expecting these ICE assholes will kill at least one or two riders (most of them are less than “pure-white") with italian nationality to, soon after, see the assholes in charge justify it somehow.
TimboSliceCan’t see this turning out well…
watsonWhat could possibly go wrong?
I want these pieces of shit out of my town right now, we have the carabinieri and the polizia di stato for these kinds of things
But wouldn’t it be nice to have a couple of completely uncontrollable gunslinging murderes walking around and spreading fear?
I know for a fact that Slovenia allows Israeli “security” personnel carrying guns in the country. So, I wouldn’t be surprised if Italy just let them.
Personally? I think it’s a PR op. They go there with ICE on their best behavior, maybe some speaking Italian. They’re extra nice, hand out some stuff. All to make ICE look like good guys to make Ds in America come off as lawless agressors.
Just like Russia, the US doesn’t deserve to be included into the games.
Such a bad look on Italy. They should be clearly saying “no” to US ICE and all US military/terrorism. Right on, Mayor Sala, though:
I can’t help but feel like this is a loyalty test by Trump. If Italy complains about this obviously controversial move, Trump will see this as a reason to retaliate and if they don’t complain, it begins to normalize this kind of awful behavior.
Italians kind of like dictators.
Why is a US intra-governmental unit, being sent international to a place they have absolutely zero jurisdiction?
Great fucking question! At first I was like are they in the us this year? No…? Ummmmmmm. Pretty fucked!
ICE protects US borders, by (checks notes) going to another country, in another continent.
Yeah, I’m thinking they get locked up on arrival and turned around. Diplomatic immunity, my arse!
Trump went to Davos and returned without incident, no one is going to do anything to them.
Every one of them should be arrested for being accomplices to murder, for being accessories before, during, and after the fact. Send them all to The Hague.
Should capture them and deport them to a random country.
Random uninhabited island in the middle of the pacific with less than a square mile of space and minimal vegetation
This is like them sending agents to the superbowl.
It’s just throwing a bone to ICE agents instead of anything meaningful.
But congress needs to press why the secret service is insufficient to protect Vance, and why on earth ICE would be, given this is completely outside their mandate.
Italians likely about to get the Erdogan treatment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_protestors_at_the_Turkish_embassy_in_Washington,_D.C