cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/48479776

Two pet dogs were left locked inside an apartment for about a week with no food or water after ICE agents detained their owner and didn’t report the animals’ presence to any authority, according to videos on social media.

The dogs reportedly watched federal agents take their owner away in Oklahoma last January, reports the Daily Beast. The agents left without notifying animal control, leaving the pets trapped for days with nothing to eat or drink.

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    I’m so tired…

    This country and a lot of the world right now is so depressing.

    Good and decent people have been plowed back into the soil as horrible people like Trump have risen to power.

    The amount of people taking advantage of the bad shit they do is astonishingly high.

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    ICE aside, it is important to have a contingency plan in place in the event of “sudden incapacitation.”

    Someone outside the household checking in, leaving out a generous supply of food and water, etc. Keeping emergency contact info up to date, e.g. so work knows who to call if you stop showing up.

    I’m not victim blaming here. This is something that can happen for a variety of mundane reasons.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      That’s what your support network (typically family or community) is supposed to provide. However, ICE’s complete lack of transparency is part of the rot. No one knows what the fuck is going on inside, there is zero accountability, and they don’t report on the people in their custody. They either cage them like lab mice or ship them an ocean away like the literal Nazi mafia they are.

      E: Not that I disagree at all

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      This was and is still true, especially of elderly and children. People are so isolated from their neighbors; we saw that during COVID and we see it now.

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    You know how it’s a cliché that an early warning sign of serial killers and other psychopaths is cruelty to animals?

    Welp.

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    Animal lovers are another level of determined. (If you’ve ever seen a PETA ad, you know what I mean.) Pissing them off might be ICE’s undoing.

    If you love animals, then you should be warned that the only solution for the problems ICE creates is to abolish ICE altogether. They’re an organization that’s corrupt beyond reform.

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      please… peta would side with ice, claim the individuals were the abusers then they would kill the dogs themselves.

      peta is NOT ethical by any means… hopefully they can prove the world wrong on this, but I highly doubt it.

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      I find it wild that people find it easier to get angry enough to care about 2 dogs than for almost half a million human beings, but I don’t disagree. We are a mentally really messed up people.

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        I’ve read the writers of John Wick introduced the dog as the plot motivator because just having his wife killed wasn’t emotionally investing enough for audiences to “justify” (or buy into) the revenge rampage. The dog did a better job at immediately establishing the villians as irredeemably monstrous.

        There’s something about the innocence of animals that sets people off big time.

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        Animals have no capacity for evil, and therefore they win. Also, people have a hard time thinking about death tolls in large numbers, they kind of just become white noise. Half a million people dead is too many to thinking about all at the same time and retain your sanity. Most people choose sanity.

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          I would agree if you said they lack any sort of universal morality.

          I would agree if you said they lack the tools for the sort of industrial scale applications of evil that humans do.

          I would agree if you said there is a perception of “innocence”.

          But animals absolutely have the capacity, capabilities and sometimes “desire” for “evil” as defined by people.

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    If you don’t want ICE employees literally killed, you’re a shitty human.

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        That sort of incarceration mindset is half the problem.

        However, locking them in a morality/social skills school/rehabilitation center until they demonstrate they understand the harms they’ve done and are truly repentant, which could be life, I can get behind.

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    Two pet dogs were left locked inside an apartment for about a week with no food or water after ICE agents detained their owner and didn’t report the animals’ presence to any authority, according to videos on social media.

    The dogs reportedly watched federal agents take their owner away in Oklahoma last January, reports the Daily Beast. The agents left without notifying animal control, leaving the pets trapped for days with nothing to eat or drink.

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      Stupidly, the laws )as enforced under the present regime) give ICE the right to kidnap the people but the laws against animal abuse could provide leverage against them.

      Sadly, plenty of the same people who don’t give a shit about the abuse of “them damn illegals” are also fine with abusing “dumb animals.”

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      Depending on your area there are lots of anti ice groups you can organize with. Different ones are more popular in different locations if you’re looking to get involved personally. The best thing we can all do is likely donate. More and better legal representation seems to be the best option for most people affected and that costs money.

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    they certainly would not want to have been seen treating animals better than humans. so they give 'em the same treatment, i guess.