A CRU tabling event near the Memorial Union this Friday asking students to report fellow students to ICE is facing backlash from members of the University and surrounding community.
I need a lot more time to think about whether or not to sabotage the reporting system, but here’s some metacognition:
There’s an ick factor (and maybe a grave sin, still to be determined) in using active deception to interfere with government stuff.
So far, I have not confidently determined that there’s no situation where deporting someone is a good thing that would be made too difficult by the sabotage. Only 90% sure.
If it wasn’t clear before this election it must be obvious now. The majority of the government is the enemy of the people who live in this country. They are doing everything they can to keep us down, having just enough that we don’t revolt. “Active deception to interfere with government stuff” is a moral good, certainly not a “grave sin”.
Would you rather deport 10 people for no reason at the cost of not deporting 1 that deserves it? Would you rather execute or imprison 1 innocent than not execute or imprison 1 deserving? ICE will hit a point where legal citizens are also reported to a place they are not citizens. Pick your ratio of what is acceptable but the innocent will be hurt.
Why?
I need a lot more time to think about whether or not to sabotage the reporting system, but here’s some metacognition:
How’s that boot-leather taste, chud?
If it wasn’t clear before this election it must be obvious now. The majority of the government is the enemy of the people who live in this country. They are doing everything they can to keep us down, having just enough that we don’t revolt. “Active deception to interfere with government stuff” is a moral good, certainly not a “grave sin”.
Would you rather deport 10 people for no reason at the cost of not deporting 1 that deserves it? Would you rather execute or imprison 1 innocent than not execute or imprison 1 deserving? ICE will hit a point where legal citizens are also reported to a place they are not citizens. Pick your ratio of what is acceptable but the innocent will be hurt.