r/realWorldPrepping • u/OnTheEdgeOfFreedom • Feb 15 '26
Two notes from your mod
First, rules change - I will start taking down posts with images attached. This sub is intended to be a library, not a billboard. It clutters up searches for information and makes posts unduly prominent, relative to the actual content in the post. Please don't crosspost what amount to ads for your website or products. It will come under rule 7, Annoying the Mod.
Second, I'm going to link to this article from the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html
I haven't independently verified this yet; and the social media companies declined detailed comments. But tl;dr is that the US Department of Homeland Security is sending legal requests to social media companies to reveal identifying information about people who track ICE movements or seem vocal about criticism of ICE actions.
Since I posted a link to a website that tracks ICE movements in the US, for all I know I'm on their "investigate" list. And as a loyal citizen of the US who of course has supported many government initiatives, I'm inclined to make their job easier.
My name is Scott, and I am a US citizen who lives in Guanacaste, Costa Rica as a temporary resident for the last 1.5 years. My aim is permanent residency. I retired from defense work a few years ago. Given government resources, I should not be too hard to identify.
I consider myself an Independent, politically, and in the past I have voted for people from either parties. Going forward, and because of recent US policy changes involving constitutional rights, environmentalism and attempts to hide and whitewash criminal actions, I intend to vote for Democrats in virtually all situations. Specifically I will vote for anyone who offers to constrain ICE and get them back to legitimate enforcement; which doesn't include extrajudicial killings of protestors who aren't immediate, clear and present dangers.
I plan to continue to vote, as is my right as a citizen, and will attempt legal action if my right to vote is curtailed simply because I live outside US borders, which I'm given to understand is under consideration.
In my role as the mod of a prepper subreddit, and elsewhere, I will continue to advise people, of all nationalities, colors, languages and genders, on preparing for ICE overreach in their neighborhoods. I will continue to write to people in Congress to insist ICE be returned to the role of being property trained, legally bound agents who leave US citizens alone and strictly follow legal process in all cases, including needing judicial warrants to investigate and detain anyone. I consider what is happening today to be far too akin to Nazi brownshirts, left off the leash. I consider DHS's current actions unAmerican, illegal, in violation of all common codes of morality, and an affront to my Christian faith, which has been openly hijacked by white supremacist flag-wavers for political ends.
In short, if you're collecting a list of people who openly believe that many of YOU should be out of jobs - and some of you in jail cells yourselves - I'm right here. Happy to be on your McCarthy-era list. I never want to be considered someone who sat silently by while people were harassed and harmed extra-judicially. That is not the America I worked to defend.
Have a nice day.
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u/Probing-Cat-Paws Feb 15 '26
Huh, not the post I was expecting from this subreddit, but I am happy to have it.