American GESTAPO: What is I.C.E. ?
To fight I.C.E, we must know I.C.E.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”― Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”1
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) is an American form of the German Nazi government’s Gestapo.
So, to know I.C.E. we must know the Nazi Gestapo.
The Gestapo was the political police force of the Nazi state. The name Gestapo is an abbreviation of the German name “Geheime Staatspolizei”, which in English means “Secret State Police.”2
The Gestapo’s mission was to “investigate and combat all attempts to threaten the state.”
In the Nazi view, threats to the state encompassed a wide variety of behaviors. These behaviors included everything from organized political opposition to individual critical remarks about the Nazis. The government even defined belonging to certain categories or groups of people as threatening.2
The Gestapo was above the law. They could send people directly to a concentration camp. This was called “protective custody” and bypassed the court system.2
The Gestapo was not subject to legal or administrative oversight. No other institution (including the courts) could overrule the Gestapo’s decisions – it had the final word.2
The courts were not allowed to interfere with the Gestapo’s activities in any way. As a Gestapo leader explained, “As long as the police carry out the will of the leadership, it is acting legally.”3
The Gestapo was a weapon used by the fascist elements of the capitalist-class to attack and control the working-class.
Using the Nazi Party and Hitler, the fascists destroyed German “Capitalist Democracy” – a system of bribery, corruption and fraud, backed up with violence and terror. In its place was fascism, a system of violence and terror, backed up by bribery, corruption and fraud.
“Fascism is the open terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary elements of capitalism”.4
The Gestapo was used to establish and maintain fascist rule. Like the Nazi government, the Gestapo could not be reformed; it could not be controlled; it had to be destroyed.
Next: How I.C.E. is being transformed into an American Gestapo.
References
- https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1771.Sun_Tzu
- https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/gestapo
- W.L. Shirer (1960) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Simon and Schuster, page 271.
- L.H. Gould (1943) Marxist Glossary, Proletarian Publishers, page 46.
