I wish these politicians would rub some brain cells together and start calling for the formation of a California militia.
Not a gang.
A militia.
Find a way to incentivize Oregon and Washington to form their own as well.
I think it’s quite clear that the mob is the lesser evil. The US federal government broke the social contract and so the state has no legitimacy. The mob also isn’t interested in genocide.
Remember when The Black Panthers were labeled a “gang”? You know, that OG “revolutionary” org initially focused on armed self-defense against police brutality, by blending Black nationalism, socialism, and self-defense, while advocating for the rights & empowerment of African Americans and marginalized people everywhere?
They created and maintained such heinous criminal enterprises as:
- Free Breakfast for Children Program,
- People’s Free Medical Clinics (PFMCs),
- Liberation Schools
- the Oakland Community School
- and many other community-activation initiatives
Yeah. Exactly. They’re criminalizing any & all resistance. Full stop.
Fascists gonna fascist.
Oh no. Would be such a shame when the cowards from ICE get shot on the street while (checking notes) terrifying children and using them to get to their parents.
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Suuuuuuuuuuuch a shame I tell you!
Oh man, the parallels with history here are strong…
Back in the day companies would use government to crack down on things like union strikes. So the unions started working with the Mafia for protection.
This didn’t work out well for the companies (executives getting carried off, tortured, and executed… That sort of stuff) so the government came up with a compromise: Strong labor laws.
Now we have the government itself violating it’s own laws (Bill of Rights), kidnapping harmless people, sending them to faraway prisons to become slaves. Hooking up with organized crime seems like a logical path 🤷
…as in: WTF did you think was going to happen‽
The best deal leaders could ask for is a strong social contract. They don’t have to look over their shoulders we don’t have to look over ours.
Also the ability to safely leave power. Jimmy Carter got to spend his retirement building houses for charity, Saddam Huissen got to spend his in hiding, Ghaddafi got to spend it being tortured awaiting execution by a mob of his citizens, and Hitler’s retirement was spent absolutely ruining a bunker toilet while going through withdrawal. I’d much rather rule with limits then step away safely.
They’re mad precisely because she’s right
Fuck that. This woman’s the first to speak up against this shit. I hope the gangs were listening.
The mayor of LA has been speaking up.
I agree 100%. The Icestopo must be stopped.
Sounds like a solid take. More people should be encouraging violence against ICE.
Worked in Italy.
I get what she was trying to say, but her execution was piss poor.
I’m Mexican/American, born and raised in Southern California and this woman is an idiot. Ever since I was a kid, gangs have TERRORIZED our neighborhoods. My brother and I were beat up, harassed, and constantly in fear because of the street gangs in our area. All gangs, no matter the race, are HORRIBLE people who kill and rob their own. This politician almost “glorifying” this crap is a slap in the face to us who have had to endure street gang’s wrath of violence in our neighborhoods.
Im glad she said it, I have actually been saying the same thing, it’s time for some gang on gang justice
So. The person in charge of ensuring those under their care know how serious this is and is fighting with them.
Of COURSE the bully doesn’t want that do, so the mayor us now under the gun.
This is not the United states my ancestors died for. It isn’t the land I grew up in over 50 years ago, and isn’t the country my son was born into.
before anyone responds all snarky while there’s no sword of ICE over your heads like my wife has, don’t want to hear it. I didn’t vote for trump, did vote though, so no this isn’t my fault, or my kids, or my wife’s. Yes im in the streets and fuck off to anyone who isn’t in the streets or protesting trump yet still has a bullshit reply.
This is not the United states my ancestors died for.
It literally is, though. Trump isn’t a new kind of president, he’s a return to the nation’s white nationalist authoritarian roots.
The founding fathers weren’t interested in liberty and freedom, they were just pissed that they weren’t kings themselves.
If not for Dunmore’s Proclamation, Washington would have still been fighting for the British
The two were on good terms not two years earlier when Washington believed Dunmore would help him secure more territory in the Ohio River Valley.
