ICE posted a clip of the Acting Director of the agency Todd Lyons being interviewed by Glen Beck (who it turns out is still around), which they captioned in part “ICE Homeland Security Investigations special agents will be investigating the ringleaders of anti-ICE domestic terrorist efforts and track the money backing them.” The clip, though, involves Glen Beck bringing up a flyer that was supposedly found on the Georgetown University campus for a group called the John Brown Club. Glen Beck quoted text on the flyer that reads “Hey, Fascist! Catch!” and “The only political group that celebrates when Nazis die.”Nowhere on the flyer is there any mentions of ICE. The “Hey, Fascist! Catch!” message seems related to the shooting of Charlie Kirk, who wasn’t part of ICE. So why did ICE assume that is must be about them?
Perhaps the answer is that ICE itself sees it self as comparable to fascists and Nazis. They could change how they handle things to lessen that comparison. But so far the response from the Right has been to try to shut down people making the comparison, despite ICE appearing to instinctively make the connection on their own.
(On a related note, numerous right-wing news outlets claimed that the John Brown Club mentioned on the flyer must be the John Brown Gun Club, despite the lack of “gun” in the name of the group on the flyer. Plenty of them ignored the obvious discrepancy. Hardly what you would expect from a news outlet.)
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