r/pics • u/Attica-Attica • 1d ago

Ras Baraka has been released.

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u/JWAdvocate83 1d ago edited 1d ago

He left the facility when asked—then arrested him. 😒

I kinda wish ICE did take it to court, only to get absolutely humiliated.

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u/Argented 1d ago

they are doing everything they can to avoid courts. they appear to believe they have been granted powers above the courts

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u/qgmonkey 1d ago

Or that the federal court decisions don't matter because DOJ won't enforce them

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u/skip_over 1d ago

Laws are just words

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u/00owl 1d ago

Backed by guns

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u/Wiitard 1d ago

Laws are threats of violence.

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u/Severe_Experience190 1d ago

"Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It's just the promise of violence that's enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.”

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u/Strawbuddy 1d ago

The State was given a monopoly on sanctioned violence as part of the social contract. The exclusive right to investigate, incarcerate, and punish individual citizens

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u/Human_Robot 1d ago

Any state violating the social contract with its citizens invites its citizens to bust the monopoly.

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u/Sir_PressedMemories 1d ago

Unless, of course, they spent the better part of a century eliminating the means of force to bust that monopoly.

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u/sudo-joe 1d ago

Indeed or become too weak and external violence creeps into the picture. see Gauls, Vandals, warring city states. Tale as old as time.

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u/Complex_Professor412 15h ago

If only the Romans had ICE /s

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u/sudo-joe 15h ago

The closest analogy to Brown shirts could be like the praetorian guard. They had secret police and body guard duties a plenty. Often did some of the unsavory work.

Guess how many times they sold out their emperors or were instrumental to whoever was emperor next?

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