{"id":9420,"date":"2025-08-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=9420"},"modified":"2025-08-03T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:57:09","slug":"pirate-news-no-secret-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/04\/pirate-news-no-secret-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate News: No Secret Police!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Steve and James discuss ICE (et. al.) actions, how they are becoming a secret police force and why we need to get rid of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SM6kGmzkUFA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/civicrm\/profile\/create?gid=16&amp;reset=1\">Sign up to our newsletter to get notified of new events<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/support-the-pirate-party\">volunteer<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/social.globalpirates.net\/@masspirates\">Join us on<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/social.globalpirates.net\/@masspirates\">Mastodon<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/masspirates\">Facebook<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/masspirates.bsky.social\">Blue Sky<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/masspirates\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Some links we mentioned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/wiki\/2025_Administrative_Coup_Memory_Bank\">MassPirates 2025 Administrative Coup Memory Bank<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations\">The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers\u2019 Data With ICE<\/a>; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/view.xhtml?req=(title:26%20section:6103)\">26 USC 6103: Confidentiality and disclosure of returns and return information<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2025\/07\/15\/immigration-tenant-information-landlords\">Immigration agents demand tenant information from landlords, stirring questions and confusion<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/flight-manifests-reveal-dozens-of-previously-unknown-people-on-three-deportation-flights-to-el-salvador\/\">Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador<\/a>; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Image Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:DHS_announces_ICE_enforcement_actions_on_criminal_aliens_released_due_to_California_sanctuary_policies_-_50432256648.jpg\">Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve and James discuss ICE (et. al.) actions, how they are becoming a secret police force and why we need to get rid&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration","category-slider","category-podcasts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/NoSecretPolice.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-2rW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9423,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions\/9423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}