Trump administration 2024-2028

[Navy_Pete]

Not sure it's getting a lot of headlines but there seems to be sweeping cuts impacting things like safety inspectors/certification programs at places like NIOSH, FDA and other agencies.

Things like NIOSH certification is what we use for a lot of PPE (for things like fire fighting plus normal H&S PPE), and are things where you can't just go with 'trust me bro'.

Is anyone else watching this with concern? Already leary about food imported from the US, so as a consumer will be a hard no now if they aren't doing any food safety inspections in the plants, but for a lot of our equipment means we'll have to go with other independently tested equipment, and may actually drive us to buy a lot more European equipment. Some of the testing requires pretty specific labs and people, so is the kind of thing that would be a long lead to set up to replace, and I don't know that we have some of that in Canada right now as we just piggyback off US standards and the testing that was getting done at independent labs like NIOSH to certify the equipment.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Handling firearms by an alien isn’t illegal as long as the lawful owner has ‘Care and Control’ (I.e. is there to monitor). Furthermore legal resident aliens can buy firearms - so Newsweek is out in left field.


They thought he meant TVA, and they were trying to prune our timeline.

The guy at Cabellas in Boise tried to sell me a handgun. He seemed confused when I told him that it is illegal for me to have gun or gun parts in my possession as a non-resident Alien without the proper paperwork (Hunting licence and ATF Form 6NIA)

 

[ModlrMike]

So tempting:

War of 1812

Moral patch remembering the time Canada burned down the American White House after they sacked York (Toronto). 3 inch round stitched with velcro back.

ottawalife.myshopify.com

 

[GK .Dundas]

Kettle here , who's looking at a pot here but I'm pretty sure they mean morale patch as opposed to moral.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

So tempting:

War of 1812

Moral patch remembering the time Canada burned down the American White House after they sacked York (Toronto). 3 inch round stitched with velcro back.

ottawalife.myshopify.com

Well it was actually the British.... but what the eh!!

 

[Retired AF Guy]

Couldn't of happened to a better guy. Santos off to the Crow-Bar-Hotel for seven years.

George Santos sentenced to more than 7 years in prison

Former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was sentenced to more than seven years in prison on Friday after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Santos confessed to a number of schemes, which included lying to Congress, money laundering and fraudulently receiving unemployment...

www.rawstory.com

 

[HavokFour]

Well it was actually the British.... but what the eh!!

Proto-Canadians.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

Well another judge arrested. A pattern?

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan charged with 2 felonies in ICE case

Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and is in federal custody.

www.jsonline.com

 

[OldSolduer]

Couldn't of happened to a better guy. Santos off to the Crow-Bar-Hotel for seven years.

George Santos sentenced to more than 7 years in prison

Former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was sentenced to more than seven years in prison on Friday after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Santos confessed to a number of schemes, which included lying to Congress, money laundering and fraudulently receiving unemployment...

www.rawstory.com

What's his cell mate's name?

 

[The Bread Guy]

Well another judge arrested. A pattern?

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan charged with 2 felonies in ICE case

Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and is in federal custody.

www.jsonline.com

Only heard of this judge - who else is in the clink? I know a former judge & his wife got dinged accused of having gang folk on their property.

Joel Cano, Democratic judge, arrested over link to Venezuelan gang members

The New Mexico Supreme Court permanently barred Cano from serving on the bench after he resigned in March.

www.newsweek.com

 

[PrairieFella]

Only heard of this judge - who else is in the clink? I know a former judge & his wife got dinged accused of having gang folk on their property.

Joel Cano, Democratic judge, arrested over link to Venezuelan gang members

The New Mexico Supreme Court permanently barred Cano from serving on the bench after he resigned in March.

www.newsweek.com

There's a couple other judges who appear to have been arrested. It's developing. If it turns out how it's starting to look, there may be a quiet purge of judges happening. Grain of salt.

 

[Navy_Pete]

6 ICE agents and a DEA agent to arrest a guy in court, working as a cook, who got into a fight with a housemate for playing the music too loud? What a bunch of badasses, clearly she was sheltering a hardened criminal.

Nice of them to do it with an administrative warrant instead of an actual arrest warrant signed by a judge. Supposed to go to the US for work in a month, may cancel the trip and just try and meet with some of the Canadian companies attending the conference afterwards instead.

 

[ModlrMike]

Kettle here , who's looking at a pot here but I'm pretty sure they mean morale patch as opposed to moral.

It could be either or both depending on which end of the story you're on.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

Looking very ominous for judges in the US. From Pam Bondi, the US Attorney General:

"Attorney General Pam Bondi warned Friday that the arrest of a judge in Wisconsin was only the beginning of Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown on the judiciary."
The rest of the story is here:

Trump’s Attorney General Warns Arrested Judge Is Just the Beginning

The FBI arrested a judge in Milwaukee for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest.

newrepublic.com

 

[PrairieFella]

Looking very ominous for judges in the US. From Pam Bondi, the US Attorney General:

"Attorney General Pam Bondi warned Friday that the arrest of a judge in Wisconsin was only the beginning of Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown on the judiciary."
The rest of the story is here:

Trump’s Attorney General Warns Arrested Judge Is Just the Beginning

The FBI arrested a judge in Milwaukee for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest.

newrepublic.com

Soooo if the judiciary is no longer protected, what happens next?

Combine that with the new memo encouraging ignoring the 4th amendment and you have a very scary mess brewing.

Justice Department memo claims Alien Enemies Act allows warrantless home searches and no judicial review

The memo says "Alien Enemies" aren't subject "to a judicial review of the removal in any court of the United States."

reason.com

 

[ModlrMike]

That's some scary stuff there.

 

[brihard]

That's some scary stuff there.

It is. I’m digging into the alien enemies act stuff. The warrantless entry to residences is pretty open to police judgment is it would be ‘impractical’ to get a warrant. But, more concerningly to me- even a warrant for apprehension including residence entry appears to not be a judicial warrant, but a form AEA-21B, which is issued simply by a supervisor within immigration enforcement. Unless I’m badly missing something, that’s immigration officers giving themselves authority to enter and search a residence. I read the AEA ‘points system’ guidance for determining that someone is Tren de Arabia and thus an ‘alien enemy’, and it is some super flimsy shit. Basically any Venezuelan with criminal or social associations with TdA members could easily hit the eight points needed for ‘reasonable belief’.

Looking at this as a cop, it’s a horrendously overbroad authority. And it’s going to get people killed in botched raids.

 

[lenaitch]

It is. I’m digging into the alien enemies act stuff. The warrantless entry to residences is pretty open to police judgment is it would be ‘impractical’ to get a warrant. But, more concerningly to me- even a warrant for apprehension including residence entry appears to not be a judicial warrant, but a form AEA-21B, which is issued simply by a supervisor within immigration enforcement. Unless I’m badly missing something, that’s immigration officers giving themselves authority to enter and search a residence. I read the AEA ‘points system’ guidance for determining that someone is Tren de Arabia and thus an ‘alien enemy’, and it is some super flimsy shit. Basically any Venezuelan with criminal or social associations with TdA members could easily hit the eight points needed for ‘reasonable belief’.

Looking at this as a cop, it’s a horrendously overbroad authority. And it’s going to get people killed in botched raids.

Somewhat reminds me of the Writs of Assistance held by some RCMP members up until 1985.

 

[ModlrMike]

Looking at this as a cop, it’s a horrendously overbroad authority. And it’s going to get people killed in botched raids.

Like when they bust into the wrong house and some cop takes a shotgun blast to the face?

 

[PrairieFella]

It is. I’m digging into the alien enemies act stuff. The warrantless entry to residences is pretty open to police judgment is it would be ‘impractical’ to get a warrant. But, more concerningly to me- even a warrant for apprehension including residence entry appears to not be a judicial warrant, but a form AEA-21B, which is issued simply by a supervisor within immigration enforcement. Unless I’m badly missing something, that’s immigration officers giving themselves authority to enter and search a residence. I read the AEA ‘points system’ guidance for determining that someone is Tren de Arabia and thus an ‘alien enemy’, and it is some super flimsy shit. Basically any Venezuelan with criminal or social associations with TdA members could easily hit the eight points needed for ‘reasonable belief’.

Looking at this as a cop, it’s a horrendously overbroad authority. And it’s going to get people killed in botched raids.

If there was ever a time for Americans to pour into the streets and demand the rule of law, nows the time.