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A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically dragged from his office this week after clashing with DOGE, according to The Washington Post.

Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services, three people told the Post.

The scheme cooked up by Elon Musk’s DOGE squad falsely lists thousands of migrants as dead in a Social Security database known as the “death master file.”

Being entered into the death database cuts a person off from crucial financial services, like the ability to receive government benefits and access a bank account or credit card.

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[-] lemmylump@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

Somebody call Seabass to kick this doge pricks ass.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 points 11 hours ago

If Harry and Lloyd were president and vice president, they would be smarter and more competent than who are currently in charge.

[-] perestroika@lemm.ee 69 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Listing living people as dead in an official database is 99% likely a crime.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 day ago

Ok, it's a crime. And?

Legality means nothing when you're the law. Consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_Dead_People

[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago
[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Yesss make them work for it

o7 Greg, you madlad

[-] tibi@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This sounds oddly similar to the early days of SS which started as an organized bunch of goons serving the nazi party as security guards.

[-] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

To be clear for any dummies like me who just woke up and are reading this, this comment is comparing DOGE to the early days of the Nazi Schutzstaffel, not comparing Greg's bravery to the early days of Social Security

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[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Big balls attacks again. The stunlock intensifies

[-] MisterD@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 day ago
[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

SA, but they don't know it yet.

You must use long knives to trim the fat.

[-] Spezi@feddit.org 19 points 1 day ago

They are trying to take over Social Security, so they can have the acronym.

[-] dryfter@lemm.ee 46 points 1 day ago

Oh this just keeps getting more and more fun every day as someone who is on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing. Cut my SSDI and I lose access to everything. I mean it's "illegals" now, the rest of us "parasites" next?

[-] djsp@feddit.org 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

That's exactly it. Owners want people desperate, because desperate people work for less. As you point out, they start with “illegals”, but they will eventually come for the old and the disabled too, because some people will have to pick up where Social Security left and care for them and, in doing so, will become even more desperate. Who will risk their job fighting for their rights knowing that not only their own livelihood, but also that of their old mother or their disabled brother is on the line? We need to be clear: this is not about government efficiency or even a crackdown on “illegals”, but a war — the owners' war on us workers and our kin.

They've been manufacturing consent in a similar way in Germany, agitating against immigrants and dubbing some or all people in your situation “Sozialschmarotzer” –“social parasites”–. Under the pretense of fighting those threats they conjure, they've been dismantling social security — without DOGE's viciousness, but bit by bit.

[-] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 hour ago

Yep. Start with immigration (fakers!), then move onto disabled (fakers!) Then on from there

[-] dryfter@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

because some people will have to pick up where Social Security left and care for them and, in doing so, will become even more desperate. Who will risk their job fighting for their rights knowing that not only their own livelihood, but also that of their old mother or their disabled brother is on the line?

This is true for those who have support locally. I don't have anyone I can rely on locally right now if this starts happening to the DML. There is no other safety net for me. The safety net I do have was already riddled with holes and partially on fire BEFORE Jan 20th.

Also, this hasn't even started happening and already people are struggling paycheck to paycheck and won't risk it by protesting -- at least not to the point where we can get sustainable numbers over weeks in all 50 states.

[-] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago

So we've officially got a Gestapo in the country now?

C'mon guys.... let's wake the fuck up here.

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 171 points 1 day ago

This guy fought harder than our democratic leaders.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 60 points 1 day ago

Why isn't this DOGE person arrested for assault? We need the name, if our justice system fails to work because of the government prevents it then our Constitution grants us the right to correct this via the 2nd Ammendment.

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

Because it's sensationalised and he didn't physically dragged from his desk by Doggy goon.

But his objections did not go over well with Trump political appointees. And so on Thursday, the security guards in Pearre’s office told him it was time to leave.

They walked Pearre out of the building, capping a momentous internal battle over the novel strategy

The article is based on another article by Washington Post, which did not mention any goon from Doggy nor any dragging.

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago

Why isn't this DOGE person arrested for assault?

Because the rule of law has collapsed in America. Stop waiting for it, you are already there

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 165 points 1 day ago

Fun fact, this is "assault" and the guy has a wonderful civil case.

Fun fact #2: civil cases are not criminal cases and are not subject to pardons.

Fun fact #3: If he sues he will be thrown in prison

[-] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 points 17 hours ago

Counterpoint: Luigi.

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[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Civil cases against government officers are however subject to qualified immunity while ones against the government are subject to sovereign immunity.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago

DOGE isn't a real government entity, Big Balls isn't on the US payroll and neither is the founder of Airbnb.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Believe it or not, the nebulous nature of the department actually is what makes them more likely to have qualified immunity because their role hasn't been "clearly established" by case law. You couldn't even talk say what "actions as a part of their duties" are. I'm not a fan of qualified immunity.

As far as suing the government over what DOGE does, good luck figuring out where an agency deputized by executive order fits in here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Tort_Claims_Act

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 227 points 1 day ago

Sounds like a great lawsuit.

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 175 points 1 day ago

The Daily Beast is really burying the actual story with that headline. The article is about Musk declaring alive people “dead” in a federal database. A database that is referenced by the whole world.

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[-] dick_fineman@discuss.online 61 points 1 day ago

We're only a few months in, but this administration already needs Nuremberg Trials with the death-penalty as an option. These folks are actual overt traitors to our country, they are the enemies from within. And they should NOT get to just comfortably retire...they all need to be on death row.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 91 points 1 day ago
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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 104 points 1 day ago

Eventually someone is going to shoot some DOGE agents dead and I won't be mad.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago

He who saves his Country does not violate any Law

Not guilty

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 40 points 1 day ago

It should have happened at the beginning, when they first showed up, and started making demands in the lobby. They were an unauthorized force of illegal pirates, trying to access classified systems. They should have been gunned down the moment they tried to force their way past the front desk.

Then they "authorized" their existence, and now they have authority to go anywhere they want.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

Sounds like assault and maybe other legal issues. They aren’t LEOs.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago

If anyone, especially someone for DOGE, makes physical contact with me in a threatening manner, I'm breaking faces. Self defense is legal, these aren't cops, and that is assault. I'm also disgusted that coworkers didn't help out. Restrain the attackers, have them arrested. The president can only pardon federal crimes but I'm sure some was some illegally at the local level.

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[-] khannie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Absolute fucking hero. If my time ever comes I hope I have the same moral fortitude.

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