In this episode of "Media Bias on Steroids"...
On Saturday's ridiculous episode of MSNBC's "Velshi," contributor Joyce Vance joined host Ali Velshi in condemning ICE agents for wearing masks during immigration enforcement actions. I know — shocking.
The thing is, as Velshi and Vance preposterously posited, illegal aliens might mistake ICE agents for kidnappers. No, really. So yeah, in that case, illegals and others might be justified to commit “lawful” violence against the agents, the irrational line of "reasoning" goes.
Oh, I almost forgot: According to Vance, the actions of ICE are based on zero evidence — other than skin color.
Said Vance:
You can't simply racially profile or profile people based on their national origin and start pulling them off the streets.
Incidentally, it must be easy being a leftist in the sense that you can just make up "facts" as you go — with zero basis. Yep, you can concoct faux "evidence" solely to support whatever absurd narrative you're pushing at any given time.
Velshi kicked off the farcical festivities by priming Vance — a Canadian political science professor, mind you — to riff on masked ICE agents deserving whatever violence comes their way (emphasis, mine).
Joyce, let me ask you one thing. ... You’re a prosecutor, I want to ask you, there are legitimate reasons why some enforcement agencies, some police agencies, go undercover or, you know, do things in shadows to achieve certain things. I would assume that’s specific and, you, know, it needs to be, needs to comport with some laws.
Vance, of course, was on it:
Exactly. There are very serious legal restrictions around the use of, for instance, FBI agents as undercover operatives. Very strict rules regarding how it’s done, what they can do, what they can’t do. But you know what I’ve never seen a federal agent working a case due is pull a mask up so nobody knows who they are and go out and terrorize a civilian population.
And I think it’s important for us at this point to be very plain-speaking when we say that this is not normal, it’s not acceptable, and it’s a danger sign. You know, we are well past the point where we can just identify danger signs and say, oh, there might be problems down the road. The problems are here, they’re in the right now.
How do I say this tactfully? What a complete crock of BS.
Vance clearly had zero idea what she was talking about, principally because she had zero idea what she was talking about — meaning I'd bet a dollar that Ms. Vance has zero knowledge of whatever conditions or requirements exist that make it legal — even necessary — for ICE agents and other law enforcement officers to wear masks to protect their identities and the identities of their families when conducting potentially dangerous operations. Particularly, that is, against those who violently confront them in the streets or resist arrest.
Vance further spewed:
And as we see people being pulled off the streets — you know, the danger to law enforcement, quite frankly, is that when you’re masked like that and people don’t know who you are, someone might exercise their lawful right of self-defense to protect themselves, thinking they’re being kidnapped. So the notion that this is for law enforcement’s protection is utterly ludicrous. And we need to do away with that.
No words. The politically predisposed bias doesn't warrant a serious response.
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The Bottom Line
I'll make this one short:
The MSNBC argument in defense of violence committed by anti-ICE, pro-illegal aliens is a complete crock. Undercover law enforcement officers, whether they shield their identities by wearing a mask, changing their appearance, altering their voice, or whatever, have been a valid and sometimes necessary precaution for God knows how long.
Besides, remember when left-wing "journalists" Velshi and Vance — and other lapdog media personalities — called out pro-Antifa, antisemitic protesters (rioters), and others for covering their faces with masks, Palestinian flags, and such?
Me, neither.
Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.
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