For the EU #ruleoflaw aficionados, just obtained this (peculiar) 🇮🇹 statement in relation to the approval of the Council Conclusions on the evaluation of the Council's annual rule of law dialogue (a totally useless mechanism one may add)
www.asktheeu.org/request/conc...
@benedettalobina.bsky.social
![And there’s the issue of masks. This Court has listened
carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for maskingup and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd
Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as
disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a
single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small
wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard
them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It
should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks.
Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and
honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly
desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we
have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on
in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this
administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape
history,” Lincoln righty said. “[It] will light us down in
honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.” Abraham Lincoln,
Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d4tiqv4vk5z2f2hczwxcl5aq/bafkreiaoptokrb2m3auc64c3e4c5f6rhtthvtgjcnmuoq6ucfo4csnjnzy)
