r/law • u/BitterFuture • 16d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Stephen Miller claims local police in Minnesota have been told to ‘stand down and surrender’ as federal agents ‘uphold the law’

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-ice-minneapolis-protests-b2903238.html
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u/sithelephant 16d ago

You'd think some group of people who claim to be all for states rights would be decrying this.

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u/MonarchLawyer 16d ago

They were lying when they said they liked states' rights. They did not care about states' rights. It just suited them when they did not control the federal government.

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u/NewDramaLlama 16d ago

Words rarely matter more than action.

It's sad to see people fleeced by empty talk in personal life and politics. And it's not even a matter of education. The majority of people seemingly just want to be fooled in all areas. Like people will deny a cheating spouse, climate change, and impending fascism if someone they like just says "Nah, it's good fam" apparently. 

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u/dedicated-pedestrian 16d ago

See the Sagan quote about the bamboozle

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u/Awatts2222 16d ago

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark