Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.
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I feel like a lot of people really need to start researching self-defense. Masked men with no credentials trying to kidnap and assault you certainly falls under that category.
After a French academic was refused entry to the US because he'd posted critical comments about Trump, it's advised that anyone planning a trip to the US should remove fingerprint or facial recognition from their phone, or use another. They can't demand your passcode. America, the land of the free.
And the same people enabling and cheering this think it's okay to ban peaceful protestors wearing masks. But secret police with no badges, uniforms, etc.? They're entitled to conceal their faces.
When I was a kid in the 1960s, in Oakland and Berkeley there was a rash of harassment of citizens by police. In response the Black Panthers established armed Police Surveillance Patrols. Maybe we need to bring that back?
Been fighting for 400 years. Nothing has changed the minds of the racist majority. How could you ask us to take up shield and Buckler against the society that show us time again what they think of us.? We voted as per the constitution. You expect us to take to the street for justice for slaughter?
To be clear, I was not suggesting it’s up to black Americans to fix this problem. My point was that the time for peaceful political discourse may have passed. I meant to be talking to everyone on the non-fascist side, including elderly white dudes like me.
That's why they won't go there. Permit carrying states allow you to protect yourself. Think this is what they meant by allowing open carry to challenge the state?
They can whatever the fuck they want, and they will. Start accepting that and fighting back, or we are fucked. Because now is the US, but soon could be any other country. They already have the playbook to take a Government from within, and they've seen that it works, it's now just a matter of time.
Can someone explain it to this Canadian? If law enforcement are plainclothes or masked and don't identify themselves, how are citizens supposed to know whether they are witnessing a criminal kidnapping or a lawful arrest?
Welcome to the states, we have no idea. If you want a fun Google search, look up "unmarked police vehicles" and see some of the stealthy paint jobs those have.
Literally that’s the point. This is exactly what happened in Nazi Germany. You have the “legitimate” police going around causing chaos as well as vigilantes. And the vigilantes were let off because their crimes were committed to preserve the German spirit.
If it's in NYC it's because of the strict gun & possibly even knife laws. I remember reading about how folding pocket knifes were illegal if an officer could open it with 1 hand. They'd make a game out of it until they got it open then arrest the person. Not sure if that's still NYC law
I assure you, the higher-ups are waiting with baited breath for that exact situation. They'll use it to justify the next, worse thing. And whoever does it will die on the spot or disappear, or both.
Americans have the right to defend themselves from unlawful arrest.
The catch is, you have to survive it. Police brutality is practically a sport in this country. I have zero doubts that these ICE agents will resort to lethal force rapidly. Some will actively try to provoke it. Watch.
They can't. And given the number of wannabe good-guys-with-a-gun running around, it's only a matter of time before this escalates into a tragedy with innocent people getting shot.
@governor.ny.gov how are you allowing this to happen? How are ppl allowed to be kidnapped off the street. We have no idea who these ppl are. You need to hold ppl accountable.
I do not believe all these unidentified individuals who are assaulting / arresting / kidnapping people are official ICE officers. Someone is supplying ‘thugs’.
How awful! Those poor people. How courageous of these folks to intervene and what heinous behavior by those agents. They must have been hired for their sadistic tendencies. Thank you for standing up for RIGHT. These are dark times.
It happened in our small town. Unmarked suv with plain clothes ppl slamming a worker against the wall, handcuffed and swooped away to unknown place. No warrent produced. In a small diner in front of many
It amazes me that the system is so slow in stopping this kind of thing.
I would have thought all matter of human rights groups and government officials would have this matter before the courts, and it would be dealt with immediately?
Someone should ask a judge if use of firearms can be justified in this sort of situation. What is to stop anyone from dressing up in black and abducting people?
It's not because of Elon's Nazi salute that they're Nazis. It's not because of their Nazi rhetoric. It's because of actions like these that they are Nazis. Torturing innocent people without due process and based on hateful racism.
eventually we will enter a time when people are escorted by armed guards. but those guards will likely be gangs. they will dominate because they're not afraid to pickup a firearm and fire it. the rest will either live or die at their discretion.
I've tried to find the video. If you could post it, that would be appreciated.
It is tragic that it reached this level. There are going to be people caught up innocently in this. Illegal immigration never should have reach this level. It hurts everyone.
This lady said it as it is. Am I ever happy to live in 🇨🇦 Canada. Just hearing about what ICE agents are doing makes me sick to my stomach. Imagine witnessing it and being powerless! And you GOP senators AND Congress members are totally responsible! YOU CAN CHANGE THIS. #impeachTrumpNOW
Starlight tours, bro. Why dont you go clean up your house then once you've dealt with the RCMP we can compare notes on how to neutralize fascist paramilitary police.
Remove your face recognition and fingerprint access from your phones! We ARE going to step in when we can, and they should not be able to access my phone. And I'm old. Some times I just forget my 5 digit access code. 😏
ICE is out here looking for people. What happens when they roll up on the wrong ones. Now people are going to start actively looking for them. You dont identify yourself, you try to snatch my people? As God as my witness, you are about to catch the heater.
It’s safe to say that groups like the Proud Boys etc, have tried, will try or at are thinking of trying shit like this. They stormed the capitol in a coop. It’s something they’d do.
What ensures that they have not integrated themselves into ICE?
Maybe I am too naive, but I hope 'real agents following orders' would not go out of their way to hurt pets and treat citizens like what is being reported here.
Do you know where I can find the Franklin Ave video? Thats my stop, I’d like to know specifically where ICE and their rape van were lurking for more effective intervention. (I did google.)
Why don't they do this to Elonia MuskcRata he's a foreigner who brought his way into this country, he should be sent back to South Africa, make him come back here legally just like everybody else.
@governor.ny.gov Why are you allowing this to happen in your state? They are unlawfully abducting & assaulting people, & violating Constitutional rights. They're using NYPD!?!
Compromised Adams who you won't remove won't stop this, so this falls on YOU.
You are not going to stop a NYC Cop or ICE from doing their job but video is a good way to at least document these events if you are present; take pictures and get names of victims if possible and share.
we need to begin identifying who these ICE officers ARE. They're hiding behind masks. If what they're doing truly IS legal and correct, why the masks?
They're nothing but new age gestapo and we need to call them and their families out for it
Masks hide identity, with facial recognition software they could be identified by eyes alone. This is why the data is so important space nazi can cross reference all individuals via drivers license, passport, med license etc., pics to narrow down & identity ppl.
Take the clue, mask up in public!
if you have to hide your face and identity, then what you're doing is illegal and wrong
to detain someone, there should be the same process you get with Police...see their badges, get their names, know where the person being detained is being taken to, and the charges. Not kidnapped while brown
During the Black Lives Matter protests in NYC, the entire NYPD put black tape over their badges so they couldn’t be held accountable for beating protestors. No such thing as a non-Gestapo cop, doesn’t matter who the president is. Every one wishes they could abduct whatever looks criminal to them.
One thing to point out is that this was high-pandemic time, and the NYPD was extremely anti-mask. They en masse violated mandates as if instructed to, you’d never see a masked cop anywhere… except when they confronted protestors.
NYPD has a history of excessive force & taping over their badges. Lived in StuyTown & clearly remember the beat down they gave people in Tompkins Square Park in ‘88 & no cops were prosecuted because they couldn’t be ID’d due to the badge tape-overs. Nowhere can cops be trusted.
Yeah, lack of coverage of that made me a little crazy. Every NYPD cop did it for the duration, even the traffic cops I’d see far from protests. Clearly some directive from the top, though I did get in the face of a few asking why and they just laughed and didn’t otherwise respond.
You’re assuming we can even have free and fair elections. I doubt very much trump won without hacking. Especially give some statistics and historical evidence.
Unfortunately, you have to rely on elections as the only alternative is a coup. Those who oppose will be in the majority, and have to be mobilised to vote.
What’s so incomprehensible about a coup? Time to wrap our national head around it. There’s lots of convincing analysis that it happened, but god forbid we lower ourselves to MAGA. Far better we look superior and hand over our country.
Nothing.
It's not my country.
All I know is there are more weapons in the USA than in the rest of the world combined.
A couple and lots of guns isn't a good mix.
But hey-ho, off you go mate, and enjoy 😉
Masks are also used by the security forces in Russia. So their families and friends can’t identify the and the won’t get assaulted when walking down the street. Here it’s because what they’re doing is illegal and violates human rights.
Some people are stupid enough to announce on LinkedIn that they work for ICE. Somewhere there's a link to a data-scrape of those people, but it was from the president's first term.
Yes. But they can always decide that you are suspicious enough to pack you and your phone with them. E.g. for the reason that you won't divulge your pin.
@schumer.senate.gov hey Chuck, these guys look white, do you care about them? I don’t know if they’re Jewish of course, and probably not rich. But just in case you missed it, your ICE thugs are getting their nazi all over the race you seem to care about.
If police don’t ID themselves how are citizens supposed to discern the difference between a kidnapping and an arrest? Shouldn’t a violent response to an apparent kidnapping be expected?
It is an invitation for like-minded goons to pose as law enforcement to terrorize whole swathes of the population. Illegitimate causes and those who partake in wrong & immoral actions like others to imitate them. Legitimate representatives of government/LE don't encourage vigilante type activities.
They may try to cover their faces by using the excuse of fear of doxing.. but that's BS. They still need to have visible badges and operate within the law. Nobody should support the use of these terroristic tactics. USA now has groups grabbing & disappearing people off our streets on a daily basis?!
The “administration” are waiting for that to happen. Just picture it; “left wing agitators and terrorists stopped federal agents going about their work, and that’s why I as president, am declaring martial law as of today”… probably about page 78 of Project 2025.
Yes, it is. He turned over the city to ICE to save his own skin...for a few months. Hochel and Schumer are also paid to talk loudly and do jack shit about any of it.
Can ppl pre-emotively go and get a habeas signed in their state so that they cannot be transferred to another facility away from their representative and family?? News reported that 47’s plan is to send them to Louisiana where they feel they can get the best results from judges- wonder why they
Also I really would love for an attorney to answer the question so we can get messaging out If they can preemptively get a habeas. We need to keep people safe
I saw where the stocks blew up that day for them. It’s all about money! And it’s disgusting! I hope that they have to send all of those they sent to El Salvador back to the U.S. to show cause in court- and that most of them are shown to have been sent illegally by the govt.
This is just crazy. Here I see people on the walk trails with pepper spray and rightfully so. So if they were approached as such and used there pepper spray Is that not protecting themselves anymore 🤔or will they get more on them like resisting or however people put it.
trump is escalating the lawlessness, not only violating rights of immigrants, but now US citizens too! all bc the SCOTUS led him to believe he can. jfc 😡
Hmm, weird. What's the military doing? I thought everybody swore an oath to the CONSTITUTION?! Why no action when the CONSTITUTION is being trampled all over with such blatant disregard?
Or was that just empty, self-congratulatory pageantry?
The military a) answers to civilian authority, namely Trump, and b) has no authority to operate against American citizens unless that civilian authority (i.e., Trump) declares martial law.
Plus, sadly, most of the military are brain-washed ultra-nationalists, so they agree with what's happening.
I don’t understand why these people haven’t been taken to court. If like a black motorcycle gang started grabbing people off the streets, would the country or state or county just let it happen? I doubt it.
Blind Americans, not MAGA the other problem Americans will use the same excuse they've used for years. "I'm sure they had a reason".. I hear this out in public soo much..
A greater part of America’s drift to fascism is that you allowed your ignorant, gun-toting , trigger-happy law enforcement officers to act with impunity. Now they embrace the freedom Trump gives them to become Nazi Brown Shirts. Don’t expect the law to be on your side when the fight back begins.
You are right and I apologize. White Americans on the whole have been either complacent or complicit. I’ve watched it from the outside and it never fails to horrify me when the police regularly abuse black Americans.
Thank you. And I know millions of other Americans are up in arms. Part of the struggle is not knowing the best way to fight back because we know Trump will declare martial law and then it will be over. I’m boycotting with my money atm and calling reps.
I hope she has contacted the NY ACLU. That's egregious on so many levels. I know the ACLU is busy (!) but they are at the forefront in protecting Americans from the trump regime's secret police agencies.
@aoc.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @repcasar.bsky.social When is enough going to be enough for you to take serious action??
The speed of this is deliberately paced to overwhelm people Supersonic results in limited action and denial. Congress is in denial and they seem to be focused on their re-election and commitment to Trump no matter the consequences
This is the crux of the Trump Administration’s plan. “The people” per Trump include only lawful citizens (and so not 14A birthright citizens of a non-citizen parent). Anyone else, valid green card holder to illegal, has no rights. The battle will be fought on this and the Unitary Executive theory.
Do you have a link to the video? As long as I can't physically go to protests, I'd like to at least write to politicians and it'd be helpful to know exactly what to write.
What this will lead to is masked pedophiles, rapists, murderers just driving around abducting people off the streets and throwing them into their vehicles and no one will do anything because they’ll be afraid they’re ICE agents.
Since the people being "disappeared" are being taken to private for-profit holding centers, I'm wondering if mercenaries (paid by taxpayers' $) are doing the literal kidnapping. NOT official ICE employees. That's why they're masked & refuse to identify themselves or show warrants. They have none.
I'm reading about plain clothes goons without badges snatching people to put them in unmarked vans and I'm thinking if I'm armed I'm defending myself with my weapon. I don't know who you are, you are an imminent danger to me!
This reminds me of similar kidnappings and disappearances perpetrated between 1976 and 1983 by the military dictatorships in Argentina's Dirty War. They seem to be following the same script... Let us hope they don't start dropping them into the ocean as was done in the Dirty War.
I’m going to ask a really stupid question… if they don’t show a warrant it’s kidnapping, if they restrain without a warrant it’s assault and illegal detention… photo the van and the masked people… take a civil suit?
No warrant, no ID, no plainly identifying themselves, wearing masks, and trying to shove people into unmarked vans ... is lethal force allowable to protect innocent people from being snatched off the street?
We are governed by a lawless regime. Fighting back is our only option. We need to be vigilant and step in when possible. A group of people protecting the ones being detained will stop them. They can’t arrest us all. 👊🏻
On account of the human beings involved. Law is constituted of what the paper says, what the judges read it as, and what officials and the people do in response.
I guess what I’m saying is; turning a blind eye is akin to acquiescence… I am seeing news of some resistance by friend’s neighbours and colleagues… that’s the way to remove the normalisation
It’s kinda like saying to someone actively dying of hunger to plant wheat seeds though. Yes, it’s true that in the long term this will solve the problem but its timescale is so inappropriate for the immediate problem that it’s not really an actual solution.
I again I agree with the premise… surely you’d plant the seeds AND look for some short term fix… listen I don’t have answers but I think we both agree something needs to change or you go from 1933 to 1940’s pretty quick (move to autocracy)
The solutions to be discussed should not and cannot happen in this kind of public forum. Please don’t mistake this as disagreement. Rather, this is is info and op sec
This is horrific. Every federal and local officer must identify themselves when asked to do so. If they do not do so it is not an arrest it is an abduction.
Nazi Germany looked at what the US and Canada did to indigenous people and learned from it. Y'all have been Nazi Germany to many non-white people for over a century.
They think the country is too big, or they live in an ok neighborhood—it won’t happen here because we have cop neighbors, we’ve never been in any trouble, they don’t realize it’s neighbors that turn them in because they already have intel.
I’m sorry but it’s not the education system. It is the intense propaganda being pumped out by Fox News and social media. The amount of brainwashing is on steroids. Even well informed educated people voted for this because they’ve been indoctrinated into cult propaganda. Watch Fox News-SCARY
I wish people would stop using “the education system” as the root of all evil. The people actually committing evil deeds are not elementary students. They are old white guys. You can’t school-out the greed and selfishness that this regime is built on. That foundation was laid at home.
never go after the guys, attack the vehicle. Carry nasty nails and screws with you and drop them around the car. And I'm still convinced these are no agents, this is militia.
Being thrown into a human rights violating prison is better? Just comply like the Jews in Nazi Germany that were executed by the millions? Yeah just give up... That's a great attitude. Pathetic.
I wonder if the Americans will have enough balls to start a civil war over this, or if they're the puffed-up cowards we always knew they are, and they'll just let Nazis take over in broad daylight unopposed.
Oh no, I’m sorry to say, friend, this is exactly the United States. I know it’s not normal, and you’re right to be mad and shocked, but this is what the US has been doing in other places and to other Americans you don’t see the entire time.
Those are all terrorists not state representatives. For that I thought you had the 2nd amendment.
And be reminded that everything that had been done in 1930s and 40s Germany was legal. It's only a matter of time in your country, too.
Just to have followed orders didn't help in the Nuremberg trials.
The masks are probably used to strike terror in the hearts of those being accosted or perhaps to hide their identity as they commit abuses. Either way, this is totally UnAmerican!
The need is desensitization. If we get desensitized to people being abducted like this now… nothing stops them in the future.
Folks abducting people like this need to be stopped by any means necessary. And we DON’T know that these people are even government workers. No one should act like it.
Can we get these stories on a 60 minutes special? It appears the corporate media is afraid to cover it. The average American is unaware of what’s happening in plain sight. How do we get wall to wall coverage? How do we raise awareness?
Ice is the new Gestapo, today it's immigrants, tomorrow those who dare to criticize Trump the all powerful. We live in a blossoming Fascist hellscape, that and we never learn.
Hey homie, so this isn’t a typical “hurr hurr 2nd amendment” thing but a very real statement as to why police in certain major cities and states are able to operate the way they do now, and it’s directly related to the restriction of firearms to marginalized groups, ie California and Black Panthers
Law enforcement absolutely are not pushing for fewer gun and specifically New York City and State laws are among the most restrictive in the nation and due in large part of the NYPD as the nations largest police force.
I’m not talking about politicians, I’m talking about the people fucking us up.
I guess that's why Republicans made it legal to buy and carry a handgun without a permit in Georgia and other places a couple years ago. Because they wanted fewer guns on the streets, right?
Yeah we should absolutely talk about the reason for lax laws in states like Georgia and Kentucky and more restrictive ones in states like California and New York being directly related to their history with Black people.
It was never true. Democrats never seriously pushed gun control beyond demanding we "talk about it". And even the Greens recognize the right to self-defense (look it up!).
But notice, the NRA isn't fighting back. Because *they* were never about defending our freedom.
Dems in my state literally just put a bill on the governor's desk putting local sheriffs in total control of who is allowed to own a semi-automatic firearm. They are aggressively handing more power to the police during a fascist takeover.
It isn't complicated. The new law does nothing about existing possession, but it adds economic hurdles and give the local sheriff the ability to veto your ability to legally arm yourself. Who do you think that will impact the most?
The NRA doesn't care because it's a white supremacist organization.
In other words, the dems and the gop have been working hand in glove to increase the strength of empire, an empire founded on the idea of a racial hierarchy.
Fascism was always the inevitable end state of such a system, which is why the system can't be reformed, only torn down.
Totally agreed. The NRA exists to facilitate race war.
I didn't qualify my statement enough. I should have said that the Dems never pushed gun control in a constructive direction. You're spot on that the Dems and GOP are two sides of the fascist coin.
Under no pretext. The only 'constructive' gun control is that which helps construct state repression; you can't solve violence by giving one party the ability to monopolize it.
During the worst of drug war I noticed they never went to Wall St to check the fleece vest pockets of the finance bros for bumps of cocaine. They’d have filled a van.
Every last one would have been picked up if US justice were actually blind but they would have done no time because US justice ain't blind.
Don't fool yourself, every last one of those Wall Street motherfuckers is still walking around with a pocketful of powder, a privilege only skin color can buy
Damn, now y'all waking up to how it feels to be marginalized, you don't like it, and ya still making it all about #1 (white men) and #2 (white women aka coconspirator)
Ain't nothing like the sting of faltering privilege!
The message is -We can do this to anyone, "I'm here legally" means nothing to them. "I'm an American Citizen" means nothing to them. Fight the oligarchs.
This is the timeline where the world realizes that all those movies about Americans fighting fascism are just propaganda, and people over there are mostly (key word here) cowards or agree with what’s happening.
We need to stop asking this question. No one's coming to save us, and even if there was, we need to operate under the assumption that we must save ourselves. Give yourself that power.
It amazes me how, even after the Nuremberg trials, how quickly and eagerly the jackboots arrive.
How eager civilians rise up to perpetrate evil upon others.
How casually everyone treats the death of due process.
How quickly hate becomes de rigueur.
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If you shoot ICE officer/thugs who assault and try to kidnap people off the street without showing their right to do it - is that a crime or self defence?
Just remember this if you’re in the city and have the means and the desire. Sound bounces off of buildings, making it harder to track and always keep the barrel back away from the window. Also, center mass.
Darn, if there was only a constitutional right to BEAR ARMS... Isn't THIS exactly why the Constitution holds 2A? I'm generally not violent, but this is a WAR on the American people. Start defending yourself.
I hope, nobody is just standing by. Preventing somebody being kidnapped is self-defense. They didn't want to identify themselves, so it's kidnapping, not enforcement of "the law".
These criminals are trained to isolate and the target and then attack with overwhelming force. You have to have a large group of willing civilians to stop one of these.
LOL, I'm not evading the question. I'm saying you should look out for one another, and being armed could deter at least unlawful arrests, which this is. The approach is different when they know you are armed. This is about deterrence, not engaging in a gun fight.
We need to make sure to video all of this happening and share and spread everywhere.
This is horrific to even considering it could have happened. If a whole family with young children were exposed to this incomprehensible treatment then fuck, this is now at whole other level and fight.
My son works in a public library. They are supposed to have ID & show ID. He’s got a very specific protocol to follow if ppl show up saying they are ICE
Masked, no less. It's entirely possible these men have no more legal authority than do DOGE goons. Wouldn't surprise me that these are either Proud Boy types, especially pardoned ones, or private paramilitary Hessians. Using masks defeats the purpose of plainclothed surprise.
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I do not have to mention that disabled people were within the first targeted ... ?
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The fact they are masked implies it's illegal what they are doing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party#Oakland_patrols_of_police
I hope they try.🤣
But why isn't ICE concerned about a vigilante with a gun stopping a kidnapping?
When you've got this kind of anonymous state-endorsed chaos, the agents are at risk of being shot by good Samaritans with guns.
And everyone is at risk from criminals posing as ICE
The catch is, you have to survive it. Police brutality is practically a sport in this country. I have zero doubts that these ICE agents will resort to lethal force rapidly. Some will actively try to provoke it. Watch.
Surely that breaches all sorts of laws?
I would have thought all matter of human rights groups and government officials would have this matter before the courts, and it would be dealt with immediately?
He should be impeached right now.
And
All those taking part in this unconstitutional activity should be arrested.
We have lost our humanity..
Reminiscent of KKKing Trumps hero Adolf..
It is tragic that it reached this level. There are going to be people caught up innocently in this. Illegal immigration never should have reach this level. It hurts everyone.
#Canadastrong
🇨🇦 Citizen 18 years old.
Option 1 ID: your driver's licence or card from 🇨🇦 gov. with pic, name & address
2 Alt ID: 2 pieces with name & 1 with address
Eg: utility bill, studentcard, bank statement, voter card
3: A person who can vouch for you.
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What's to stop you from changing it to your little/ring/middle finger? I bet they'd not even think to try that...
Very, very interesting live TV coverage is what.
Make O.J. Simpson look like actual Simpsons.
Maybe I am too naive, but I hope 'real agents following orders' would not go out of their way to hurt pets and treat citizens like what is being reported here.
The latter implies the action is surreptitious.
Compromised Adams who you won't remove won't stop this, so this falls on YOU.
Are YOU going to protect NYC?
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They're nothing but new age gestapo and we need to call them and their families out for it
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Does the van's license plate at least say "official"/US govt/an agency?
This is beyond fucked up.
Take the clue, mask up in public!
to detain someone, there should be the same process you get with Police...see their badges, get their names, know where the person being detained is being taken to, and the charges. Not kidnapped while brown
It's those giving the orders who need identifying.
You voted them in, now vote them out.
It's not my country.
All I know is there are more weapons in the USA than in the rest of the world combined.
A couple and lots of guns isn't a good mix.
But hey-ho, off you go mate, and enjoy 😉
Would that be considered a crime
now as they have
nothing on me to scan to see what bs
they can scare up ?
I've got a condom
in my wallet from
1975, a shame but not a crime.
What is my second mistake.
Which part was that, exactly?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13431445/Inside-covert-Jewish-police-force-roaming-Americas-streets-string-scandals-spark-cover-claims.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Pistols#:~:text=The%20Pink%20Pistols%27%20symbol%20consists,to%20wear%20during%20the%20Holocaust.
Q: can the governor put a nat guard on every street corner to deter/prevent unlawful street kidnappings?
Or was that just empty, self-congratulatory pageantry?
Plus, sadly, most of the military are brain-washed ultra-nationalists, so they agree with what's happening.
They will simply be pardoned by trump.
Rubio’s arrangements with El Salvador include deportation of American citizens.
That’s where we are.
Kidnapping will be a thing again.
Remember!
I can see this happening very easily. That's why there are procedures.
People in detention centers are crammed like sardines and treated worse than animals,starving and dying.
They break the law and do it with speed, aggression, and secrecy so that there is no chance of remedy.
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article302035954.html
It may be difficult to get anyone to act on the evidence, and the courts move at a glacial pace.
In the meantime, the person grabbed is freezing and starving in a detention camp.
Or worse.
Thank you for adding it!
People don’t pay attention in America all that well.
When people are informed of Repub* stated goals and policies a decent % don’t believe that’s actually their position.
SAME
And it's terrifying
Because Trump is a TERRORIST
That goes for posing in front of prisoners in violation of the Geneva convention, to abducting people without a warrant signed by a judge.
And be reminded that everything that had been done in 1930s and 40s Germany was legal. It's only a matter of time in your country, too.
Just to have followed orders didn't help in the Nuremberg trials.
I am wondering why the need for masks and plainclothes. Are those individuals even ICE officers?
Folks abducting people like this need to be stopped by any means necessary. And we DON’T know that these people are even government workers. No one should act like it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmure_Street_protests
bullshit
There is video of the incident, and the person is working on getting this out to the news
I’m not talking about politicians, I’m talking about the people fucking us up.
No, police do.
Stop-and-frisk became a thing because restrictive gun laws made it safe.
But notice, the NRA isn't fighting back. Because *they* were never about defending our freedom.
"never seriously pushed gun control" my ass.
The NRA doesn't care because it's a white supremacist organization.
Fascism was always the inevitable end state of such a system, which is why the system can't be reformed, only torn down.
I didn't qualify my statement enough. I should have said that the Dems never pushed gun control in a constructive direction. You're spot on that the Dems and GOP are two sides of the fascist coin.
Of course not, they didn't stop and Frisk white folks.
Don't fool yourself, every last one of those Wall Street motherfuckers is still walking around with a pocketful of powder, a privilege only skin color can buy
Ain't nothing like the sting of faltering privilege!
WoW. what the f**k is going on in America...
This needs to be shown all over the world
What is the difference between USA and Ukraine? Ukrainians know for real what it means to fight for freedom.
How eager civilians rise up to perpetrate evil upon others.
How casually everyone treats the death of due process.
How quickly hate becomes de rigueur.
And because of that we never finished the job the Civil War was supposed to answer and we’re still dealing with the consequences.
Don't just vent, DO SOMETHING!!!
https://indivisible.org/
Is this his idea of protection? Kidnapping us off the street? Abusing us in broad daylight?
Silly me. Of course it is.
Who would even know if these were government employed officials and not some far-right extremist group.
A bit far-fetched, I know but the USA is full of maga white supremacists
It’s a one-way street and it’s meant to terrify people even in states where protections are still expected.
These criminals are trained to isolate and the target and then attack with overwhelming force. You have to have a large group of willing civilians to stop one of these.
This is horrific to even considering it could have happened. If a whole family with young children were exposed to this incomprehensible treatment then fuck, this is now at whole other level and fight.
Idi Amin
Pol Pot
History repeats because there's a certain percentage of the population that's just like this.
Be safe
https://thirdact.org/act/handsoff/