Ed Helms

Now, here are some very disturbing details.

Reports.

from the time indicate that the feds had very few actual warrants during the raid.

Moreover, roughly 75% of those arrested were not even related to organizations under surveillance, nor had they committed any crime.

They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

And sadly, of course, many couldn't speak English to defend themselves.

Now, once captured, the detainees faced a complete breakdown of due process.

Many were severely beaten, interrogated with torture and packed into filthy, overcrowded cells where they were held for weeks or months without charges, access to lawyers or contact with family.

What began as a legitimate hunt for very real bad guys quickly devolved into a broad system of indiscriminate, lawless abuse.

At that time,

People were relying on newspapers to kind of learn about these things.

And newspapers were, of course, beholden to some of the major power brokers of the day.

Now we see videos of ICE raids online before the agents are even back in their cars.

Does that kind of instant visibility, do you think that enhances accountability or does it just feed the noise machine, the outrage machine that you're talking about?

Are we more informed or just more inflamed?

Absolutely.

I still check X every once in a while, but every time I go into X, I'm just flooded with the most violent stuff.

When America sort of weaned itself off of cigarettes, it was a great victory for the first sort of like general health of the population.

But now we're in this situation where so many people, including kids, are ready to wean themselves off their phones.

But we can't because we have to use them for so much stuff.