AND NOW, A WORD FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT COMPLIANT

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

Dear Porkchop,

You miserable fucking apostle of human misery.

We thought we’d reached the bottom of your particular moral septic tank somewhere between family separation, CECOT, Alligator Alcatraz, mass detention, deportation raids, threats against sanctuary cities, and your remarkable insistence that physical appearance can enter the “totality of the circumstances” when immigration agents develop reasonable suspicion.

And now?
Electric-shock gloves.

It’s been widely reported that ICE intends to spend as much as $20 million putting electric-shock gloves directly onto immigration officers’ hands, and naturally your furious oversized head emerged from the federal enforcement machine to defend the idea. 

Because somewhere in America, Porkchop, there apparently remains a human being insufficiently terrified of ICE, and you simply cannot fucking have that.

You explained that the devices provide officers another option short of deadly force. Then you opened your mouth and reminded everybody exactly who we’re dealing with: “It’s another device to help someone get compliant when they are not.”

Compliant.
There it fucking is.

That word could be carved into the monument eventually erected to this obscene chapter of American history because compliance is the gravitational center of the Tom Homan universe.

Government commands, human complies.

Government grabs, human complies.

Government detains, human complies.

Government separates parent from child, human complies.

Government puts you on an airplane, locks you in a concentration camp, or removes you to foreign 

confinement while lawyers race desperately through American courts trying to determine what remedies remain available, and human fucking complies.

Now ICE wants electricity available literally at its agents’ fingertips.

That’s your magic trick. You take human suffering and run it through the bureaucratic meat grinder until it comes out sounding administrative.

A terrified father becomes an alien.

A crying child becomes a dependent.

A raid becomes an enforcement operation.

A cage becomes detention capacity.

A deportation becomes a removal.

A foreign prison becomes a destination.

The Fourth Amendment isn’t particularly useful when every officer is correct.

These protections exist precisely because governments make mistakes, abuse power, become frightened, become angry, lie, and often become populated by men so absolutely convinced of their righteousness that they begin mistaking obedience for justice.

And no amount of yelling can make us forget it.

Sincerely,
The people you haven’t managed to make compliant.