Embrace The Hate: One ICE Employee's Quest For A Race War
from the holy-crazy dept
We all know that the Department of Homeland Security and its daughter agency, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, wield a great deal of power. One need only look at their ability to circumvent the need for warrants to search pilots to notice that. Beyond just pilots, ICE's insistence that their metaphysical thought-bombs are of more import than any codified rights of citizens at the border certainly is a flexing of agency muscle. Even playing Kujo for the biggest sports league is a measure of their terrible relevancy. And, as the saying goes, great power comes with great responsibility, so you'd have to imagine that an agency like ICE takes its hiring practices quite seriously to make sure these extreme measures are carried out by a crack-team of super-agents.
But that's all it would be: imagination. Because if it wasn't, then DHS is going to have to explain how employing a guy running a website advocating the mass killing of white people makes for good human resources policy and slipped past the screeners. Meet Ayo Kimathi of the DHS.
Off-duty, he calls himself “the Irritated Genie.” He’s a gay-bashing, revenge-seeking black nationalist who advocates on his website – War on the Horizon – the mass murder of whites and the “ethnic cleansing” of “black-skinned Uncle Tom race traitors.”You really have to love the kind of loon that claims to be a Christian in the same sentence he’s advocating killing whitey. I believe it was John 14:6 when Christ said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me. Also, if you see any pale-skinned dudes walking around, thou shalt dispatch them to eternal fire post-haste. Black power!”
“Warfare is eminent,” the website declares, “and in order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites – more than our Christian hearts can possibly count.”
More importantly, how does this psychopath get past the employment screenings? Now, Kimathi’s role in the DHS is essentially in procurement, am I really to believe that his being hired shouldn’t cast doubt on ICE hiring practices of folks that might actually take part in all the examples listed in the opening? He’s far more dangerous than others that have been harrassed by ICE. It’s not like he kept the site super-secret, either; he had to get doing this website approved by the brass, and was successful.
Kimathi obtained official permission but only by misrepresenting the true nature of his endeavor. He told management that it was an entertainment website selling videos of concerts and lectures. He called it simply WOH, never saying that WOH stood for War on the Horizon.You didn’t check? This isn't just some minor crackpot pushing the limits of free speech, this guy has a barely-veiled hit list that includes Al Sharpton, Oprah, Colin Powell, and President Obama. Employed by Homeland Security, you have to hope this guy wasn't simply trying to get into a position where he found himself close to any cracker or black "race traitor" on his list. Either way, it's an incredible indictment on the DHS human resources office.
“If he had adequately and truthfully described his group,” the supervisor said, “I can’t imagine for a minute he would have been granted permission.”
So, hey, government, listen up. I know you’re there, I know you’re listening. No more spying on us until you get your own house in order, mmkay?
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Spelling counts...You know, because first impressions and such...
*Imminent. Learn to spell before inciting a race-war, dumb@ss.
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They're acting as a Japanese ninth street? Strange reference. Is a ninth street something to be feared in Japan? Maybe like a 13th floor here in the US?
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Re: "playing kujo.."
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I suspect I knew that. ;)
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but but but
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Apparently he is: http://www.khou.com/news/national/DHS-employee-behind-racist-website-on-paid-leave-220895351.html
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Anyway, lots of people simultaneously hold normal jobs and patently crazy (though unrelated) beliefs on all sorts of subjects. The only reason this article exists is because racism of this sort is so extremely taboo that it's mainstream to call it out. Other equally radical/crazy beliefs would not be as easy to condemn, and free speech isn't decided by the trivial cases.
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Re: do stupid
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- Really? This again?
"I have black friends"
- How does this lend credence to your rant?
Maybe I missed the sarcasm?
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Other than the part about managers having to approve the web site which addresses the idea of a 1st amendment "right".
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He wants to kill the President?
To what lengths will DHS go to prove to us that they are totally, irretrievably, incontrovertibly incompetent????
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Adult racist advocating genocide gets to work for ICE.
Explain this one, please.
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better than embracing
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NSA/DHS WhiteList/BlackList?
"WhiteList" and "BlackList" for whom they actually check on. "PUN INTENDED" ...
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Light 'em up, up, up
Light 'em up, up, up
I'm on fire!
(I'm kinda obsessed with that song. On another note, WOH sounds like a good graffiti scrawl.)
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It seems too obvious
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Is there a chance that a FOIA request would show us something?
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I can differentiate between speech that should be illegal and speech that I hate. The law isn't there to shut other people up so I don't get offended.
That goes for anyone, no matter their beliefs. I think one of the problems with our society is that we've taken to personally trying to find ways of punishing people for what they say instead of recognizing that they do have a right to say it, as much as we have a right to not listen to it. Trying to be vindictive over the things people say only results in about 40% of techdirt's legal failures postings.
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Within certain limits (set forth in law) one is allowed free speech, however it does not protect that speech from criticism.
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However need I drag out the tired old theater example?
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> court opinion that was an absolute travesty
> and should never be uttered by anyone again
And which was overruled by Brandenburg vs. Ohio, so it's not even valid law anymore.
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popeyes chicken is the shiznit
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I dunno, he seems perfect for ICE
He's a racist.
He's insane.
He's a thug.
He's a bully.
He's a coward.
Doesn't that make him pretty much the model ICE employee?
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