Why are they (Ice) allowed to be in the streets during a protest? Their job is immigration.
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The police are here to protect "law and order"™️ except when it means defending the people.
If the police do not arrest painfully obvious law violations, or at the very least help with the observation of ICE then they are willingly going along with it. Inaction is action. Cleaning up ICE's mess and not actively helping a population in terror is action.
I've been wondering if it is time to buy a gas mask. Seems like it will need to be standard issue for protestors soon.
Leaf blowers
Just for the record, they aren't really paramilitary. Security services that are militarized yes. Paramilitary will be like proudboys and 3 percenters and their ilk as they are tooled by the admin to persecute their opponents, critics, etc.
Just for the record, the proudboys, 3 percenters, etcetera are giving 47 days of training to join this non military arm of the regime.
A definition from merriam-webster.
This term paramilitary can take in a wide range of organizations, but is usually applied to forces formed by a government. Groups opposing a government, even when organized along military lines, are more often referred to as guerrillas or insurgents. In countries with weak central governments (such as, in recent times, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, or Congo), warlords may form their own paramilitary forces and take over all local police and military functions. Paramilitary often has a sinister sound today, since it's also applied to groups of off-duty military or police personnel who carry out illegal violence, often at night, with the quiet support of a government.
And another definition from Encyclopædia Britannica,
group or organization that operates outside a country’s formal military structure. Paramilitaries are typically modeled after military organizations and may have similar training and equipment.
Both of those explanations back my interpretation up. I know you guys all call them that, it's not accurate, just as is was not accurate for everyone to call Au Saun Su Kyi Myannamars "de facto" leader, she was the de jure leader, a leader in law not fact, not opposite that in the former.
That’s who they’re hiring to fill out these positions though, proud boy’s and white supremacists

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