This is sounding more and more like 1984.

Next thing we are gonna hear is that they never detained these people. After that they will deny the people existed. After that they will insist that transgender identity was a figment of our imagination.

Smart way to avoid traditional infrastructure costs. More places should do stuff like Vermont and Green mountain power.

Housing a person at Gitmo costs roughly $100,000 per day

evangelical church leaders who are probably chomping at the bit

No way.

They'll encourage others to, but the leaders want to sit in luxury with their coke and whores. They didn't grift that hard to spend all day looking at sad brown poors.

This "joke" is so old that I'm tired of repeating it. Every day I'm surprised by non-onion articles.

There's surely a joke form. I can't be arsed to. This isn't a joking matter

Those clergy members have the tough job of explaining where God was during the Holocaust and where they are now

Because, of course, all those conservative religions regularly work in concentration camps. That's super fucking creepy.

Easy to say from behind a computer screen.

Oh sure. Give the ICE agents a reason to "fear for their lives" so they can justify shooting civilian protesters. It's not there was a bill passed recently the gave ICE unprecedented power to do as they please.

Once you surrender that particular high ground, there's no going back. It either revolution of capitulation. So here's the question. Are you ready to arm yourself and face the United States military once Trump decides to use protester violence to declare Martial Law?

They were always armed and in groups. Sometimes they were getting into shootouts with the police (1970th police, mind you, the one without tanks), which ultimately led to them dying or running away. That's why FBI was so afraid, they pulled an enormous operation to sabotage them from the inside. They succeeded, so they didn't have to raid them guns blazing, the tactics they never shy about.
Did civil rights movement won? Yeah, more or less. Did Black Panters won? No, they were all killed, arrested, disbanded. It's hard to tell whether they helped achieving the legislative victory of the civil rights movement, or hindered it.

As a non-american, if your government makes you illegal, you should act the part

Doing that is the exact same thing ICE wants to do to American citizens.

Due process in a court of justice is the only way forward.

Fucking fascists. May they reap every ounce of pain and suffering they're inflicting on human beings. Shame.

On the flip side, how brave these protesters are. They are heroes in my eyes

I think there’s a widespread feeling of anticipation among these groups and other organized factions. Once the first domino falls, it’s going to snowball quickly imo. We haven’t really had the first big incident, but with the almost $200B influx in funding and a seeming lack of willing and capable boots for recruitment, i suspect it will happen quite soon.

So what you're saying is is that they should always have been armed and in groups?

Black Panthers and the civil rights movement won, in large part because of the threat that the cities would end up getting burned to the ground. The emphasis that school classrooms place on MLK jr's peaceful movement is an attempt to discredit violence is the inevitable outcome when peaceful options are denied.

This is where we need to be.

Every American needs to be armed and we need to make it extremely clear to the federal government that we're ready and willing to use the 2nd amendment as it was originally intended.

Domestic terrorists.

Treat them as such.

Black Panters weren't killed at once in a mass shooting, because they were killed separately in many smaller shootouts throughout, and ultimately the party was destroyed by a massive FBI operation.
Or did you thought they were successful?

They've been in Oklahoma. That being said 11 (?) people just straight attacked ICE in Texas, and I can't imagine that won't start catching on more.

Ah

Explain Uvalde. Explain Kent State. Explain the Black Panther Party's protest on May 2, 1967.

Cops only escalate violence when they feel safe.

And how many times do police just say the person they gunned down was armed, but later shown that the person wasn't armed?