Louisiana Voice

There’s a woman out there named Hannah Silveira who is searching for her husband.

ICE has him but they won’t tell her where he is.

It took a fellow detainee to communicate with her that he was removed to a facility in Louisiana.

But where in Louisiana? That remains unknown.

But here’s the really weird part: while she is a citizen of the U.S., he is Brazilian. Because of the turmoil foisted by Dorito-face Trump, they made their own decision that he would self-deport to Brazil and she would follow so they could start their lives over.

And here’s the really frightening part: As Mrs. Silveira has learned, her voice is already being silenced via a state-sanctioned takeover of the new TikTok spinoff that will be controlled by Trump billionaire allies.

She recently went on TikTok to explain that her husband, who had been detained by ICE, was going to take a regular commercial flight from San Diego to Brazil and that she would follow him at a later date. A judge ordered that he be allowed to do so.

She learned, however, through an app they had been using to communicate that he was “no longer in the system.” She called Otay Mesa Detention Center near San Diego where he supposedly was being held and asked why she was no longer able to communicate with her husband. The Otay Mesa representative told her, “We don’t know where he is.” The ICE spokesperson said that meant he was likely “in the process of being discharged,” which normally would have been good news for the couple.

“However,” Mrs. Silveira said, “he does not have a flight which was supposed to be arranged while he was in detention. You have not communicated with his attorney to organize his flight home,” she told the ICE rep. “I just received a call from one of his friends who is in the facility with him and he said they took him in the middle of the night to bring him to Louisiana.

“This means ICE is going against the judge’s order to allow him to take a commercial flight. Instead, they’re going to take him to Louisiana and put him on a deportation flight from Louisiana to eventually end up in Rio.

“One, why is [his] friend the one who has to communicate that information to me? Two, why do you tell me you don’t know where he is; you know exactly where he is and you’re not telling me because you know he’s not supposed to be there?

“I don’t know if he’s on a plane, if he’s on a bus, the next time I’ll speak to him. This was not what was agreed on by the court. If I am so on top of his case, I can’t imagine what’s happening to those people who don’t have the luxury of having someone who is trying to track them down. The reason I am so diligent about trying to figure out where he is, is because I know people are getting lost in the system and I cannot imagine the families they [ICE] are taking advantage of when people don’t have the means to simply communicate with their loved ones.

“I am sick and f**king tired of this administration jerking people around.”

Okay, that’s pretty straightforward and easy to understand. But wait. It seems her Tik Tok message is getting “glitched” in areas outside the U.S. Here are some of the responses she received:

• “It’s glitching. BLOCK ORACLE.”
• “We are watching censorship in real time with our own eyes!”
• “Canadian here. All ice videos have started to glitch.”
• “I’m in Spain and all videos talking about ICE are glitching!!”
• “America is silencing you guys.”

A little paranoia, perhaps? Maybe. And also maybe, a funereal portent of things to come.

Take THIS STORY,  for instance.

For years, there was this demand that China sell TikTok to American investors or face banishment in the U.S. Well, be careful what you wish for. The all-new TikTok we eventually got is one to be owned by close-knit billionaire ech leaders with direct business ties to Trump and/or members of his administration and/or family. These include Oracle’s Larry Ellison, X’s Elon Musk, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.

Besides the complaints above, other TikTok users have lodged complaints of alleged censorship of content, much of which is criticisms of the killings in Minneapolis and allowing the Department of Homeland Security to enter homes without judicial warrants.

The ANNOUNCEMENT came down just a week ago today (Jan. 22) of the TikTok United States Digital Services (USDS) joint venture. The LLC was created with the executive order signed by Trump last September.

One of the features touted in the announcement of the venture was “The Joint Venture will safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem and have decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and content moderation.”

There you have it: there is now a state-sanctioned communications system owned by political and business allies of Trump—and they will have control over content.

It’s almost as if George Orwell was speaking directly to us when he wrote in his classic 1984:

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”

“There was no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any moment… You had to live assuming every sound was overheard, every movement scrutinized.”

“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.”