Arrests have a cost yall:
- time in jail
- bail
- dealing with lawyers / courts
- no contact orders
- employment
- travel restrictions
Civil disobedience with the intention of provoking arrest has a time and a place. It's best done as part of a widespread, dedicated campaign supported by normies.
- time in jail
- bail
- dealing with lawyers / courts
- no contact orders
- employment
- travel restrictions
Civil disobedience with the intention of provoking arrest has a time and a place. It's best done as part of a widespread, dedicated campaign supported by normies.
Comments
It works when:
1. The scale is large enough to overwhelm incarceration systems.
2. People who are arrested include people the goverment would prefer not to arrest.
There's a reason that Belarussian's opposition party told everyone fighting for freedom there *not* to protest the obviously corrupt election.
It would just let Lukashenko's regime arrest protestors, building a list of folks to target.
On the less risky side, intentional incompetence in every day life to grind the gears of oppression to a halt buys us time.
On the more risky side, I'm inspired by the Citizen's Commision to Investigate the FBI. 😉
But BLM-style highway shutdowns or student occupations don't seem like a great idea rn.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Rice
I wouldn’t expect any individual to do it, but if we’re talking about classes of people, our elders aren’t the first group I’d be soliciting.
Chris has a lot of privilege and took a relatively safe action that he was properly prepared for.
My friends are facing RICO charges and decades in jail for running a bail fund. Which they were also prepared for, but it shows the other side of this.
Now I get it, and I get why it isn't for me. I still believe I'm better suited for other things.
I even list other actions one can take instead in the thread
That's where you saw a surge in support for bail funds and mutual aid.