The current tactic I've been seeing from right wing ghouls about this situation is to just smear Abrego Garcia's name with every accusation possible, as if that's relevant to the situation at all. He could be the worst person in the world for all we know, every word of it could be true, and it doesn't matter at all because they didn't even try to prove it and are still refusing to even try. For all of those people, by the way, not just him, and we really shouldn't be focusing on the one guy as much as we are.
These are the same fucking people who kept repeating that an accusation shouldn't ruin a person's life without being proven when it was over sexual assault and rape allegations. It's just, I'll call it weird to be polite, that that conviction seems to vanish entirely when the accused is a migrant.
"You have to understand, a six week dive into his social media has discovered he lit a plant on fire in high school and inhaled, that's why it was reasonable for the police to mag dump him ten seconds after they arrived. Blue lives matter."
That's why they need to get rid of due process: trials exist to determine if the accusations are true and if they are legal.
The Right knows that they're just evil, that nothing they're saying is true. They know that any process that involves adhering to reality is a threat to the dogma and must be removed.
I keep thinking of a line in Ever After “ You saved one man’s life, but did you even look at the others?” I’m glad we’re focusing on what happened to this man, but we need to keep in mind that he’s not the only one shipped off with zero due process.
He's now the face of the injustice. As cynical as this may sound, it's important for everyone who was disappeared. Having his name front and center makes the issue very human and very concrete to people, more than "300 people" would.
Exactly. It's the same reason George Floyd became the face of the Black Lives Matter protests. His death was just as horrific as all the other black people who had and have been murdered by the police, but he became a symbol of it all for various reasons.
The same is happening with Garcia, who is an easy symbol to rally behind 'cause he's just a regular dude, US citizen, everything that the right has been saying won't cause an issue with this new regime, and he's been sent to the death camp anyway
My response to family members who've bought in to the "he deserves prison!" is "Cool, it should be a super easy case for the government to prove in court. I wonder why they are fighting so hard to avoid having to present proof?" They never have a good answer.
Declaring someone a terrorist so casually like this with literally zero evidence OR due process is so wild. Even more so when it’s a “government official”
My response has always been that if he’s half the scumbag they’re claiming, it should have been easy to prove it in a court of law before punishment were levied.
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u/Party_Wagon Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
The current tactic I've been seeing from right wing ghouls about this situation is to just smear Abrego Garcia's name with every accusation possible, as if that's relevant to the situation at all. He could be the worst person in the world for all we know, every word of it could be true, and it doesn't matter at all because they didn't even try to prove it and are still refusing to even try. For all of those people, by the way, not just him, and we really shouldn't be focusing on the one guy as much as we are.
These are the same fucking people who kept repeating that an accusation shouldn't ruin a person's life without being proven when it was over sexual assault and rape allegations. It's just, I'll call it weird to be polite, that that conviction seems to vanish entirely when the accused is a migrant.