Immigration Agents Clash Again With Protesters in Los Angeles | Federal agents carried out more workplace raids, squared off with protesters, using what appeared to be tear gas & flash-bang grenades
Immigration Agents Clash Again With Protesters in Los Angeles | Federal agents carried out more workplace raids, squared off with protesters, using what appeared to be tear gas & flash-bang grenades
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First-person accounts of the attack and ISIS-style drive-through-a-crowd attack that ICE carried out can be found here:
It's important to remember that the regime does not and will not have a superweapon it can use without severe consequences.
It's also important to remember that the agencies showing up to harm and intimidate vulnerable and disenfranchised populations are cowards and generally unintelligent.
Protests are good. It gives them something to get angry about. The angrier they get, the dumber they act. They want violence. They want retaliation. The longer they don't suffer casualties, the sooner they start making mistakes that cause them to weaken themselves.
Be an obstruction. Ruin their equipment. Broadcast their names and faces. Shame them.
If they resort to lethal force, it must not be responded to with violent resistance they expect. It must be unexpected resistance. It must make them question their actions. It must wake them up to the problem they have caused.
I appreciate your point, but I would also point out that these fascists call graffiti 'violence' and even 'terrorism' (see the AG response to vandalism at Tesla dealerships).
They can call it whatever they want. They call protesting rioting and violence.
I'm not talking about graffiti. I'm talking about making vehicles meant to carry victims to detention facilities inoperable.
Agree. Property destruction in self defense in not violence.
Then what else? Because in such a situation you only have fight or flight.
There is no flight. There cannot be flight.
You can't fight tanks and automatic armed men with hunting rifles and handguns.
Vehicles need fuel, oil, tires, maintenance, and certainly not sand or anything in the fuel tank. Thugs need food, water, ammunition, communication, and pay. Dispersal equipment needs electricity, chemicals, training.
Mostly with you until the last paragraph:
Do not ask others to Martyr themselves. Active self defense is as critical as anything. My advice is to avoid life or death situations as much as possible, but if you find yourself in one do whatever it takes to get out alive.
You cannot force someone to change their mind, opinions, feelings etc. and here their livelihood, social status and self esteem is reliant upon them never changing their mind. You can however prevent those actions that cause harm, by force usually.
Casualties means killed, injured or otherwise incapacitated. I don't disagree that injuries and death result in massive backlash of public opinion (it's also why ICE, cops, etc also don't immediately resort to lethal measures) but the goal in modern civil conflicts like this one (of both sides) is to maximize casualties of that third category.