It’s Time for a National Mobilization Against Fascism
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It’s Time for a National Mobilization Against Fascism
If we do not rise up in unprecedented, unified, coordinated resistance now, it will very soon be too late.christopher-d-cook (Common Dreams)
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in reply to Tom Grzybow • • •Love How they Talk About Mobilizing to Chicago but are ignoring the fact we now have a new force of ICE in Boston and threats of him sending in National Guard or Marines to assist them.
And they don't seem to have a coherent plan to oppose the Fascists in Chicago either. Mobilizing just makes more victims. If they want to do something to protect people they need to get them out of harm's way so the ICE guys have no to grab.
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in reply to Joseph Teller • •You'd think we'd have learned from the multiple failures of the Arab Spring, but that's too much to ask for. All Trump needs to bring the Martial Law hammer down is an excuse, even if he has to make one up. Nobody should legitimize that by an actual uprising.
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in reply to Tom Grzybow • • •All Trump needs to bring the Martial Law hammer down is an excuse, even if he has to make one up. Nobody should legitimize that by an actual uprising.
A large component of what he is doing is nothing more than creating a provocation which he can then use to increase his military presence and control. We have to work around this constraint.
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in reply to Tom Grzybow • • •The problem is @Tom Grzybow is that those who try to organize an underground railroad today and get found out would get slapped with the RICO act and Aiding and Abetting Fugitives and be subject to loss of their own liberty and property. Modern Americans do not believe in sacrifice for a cause that risks their own security and survival. With torture back on the accepted activities list according to Trump and rendition to foreign countries to expose any such network, and retaliation against family members happening (false accusations of gang membership etc. leading to kangaroo courts) such actions may be a death sentence, especially for the large number of older Americans who might want to be involved under other circumstances that may have property or positions to hide people or provide transport to safer areas outside the cities.
Additionally there is the problem is where is safe? They are raiding rural as well as urban areas. and they are watching the borders, so you
... show moreThe problem is @Tom Grzybow is that those who try to organize an underground railroad today and get found out would get slapped with the RICO act and Aiding and Abetting Fugitives and be subject to loss of their own liberty and property. Modern Americans do not believe in sacrifice for a cause that risks their own security and survival. With torture back on the accepted activities list according to Trump and rendition to foreign countries to expose any such network, and retaliation against family members happening (false accusations of gang membership etc. leading to kangaroo courts) such actions may be a death sentence, especially for the large number of older Americans who might want to be involved under other circumstances that may have property or positions to hide people or provide transport to safer areas outside the cities.
Additionally there is the problem is where is safe? They are raiding rural as well as urban areas. and they are watching the borders, so you cannot easily help people escape the country. Even ships have been raided at port and at sea with LEGAL Foreign Nationals on them who never set foot on American Soil being grabbed by ICE operatives.
Churches aren't safe, he ignores the rules of sanctuary.
I just am frozen deer in the headlights in what to do myself. But I am damn sure that we are past the point where protests and marches are doing any good. Voting may be moot and the ACLU and other legal organizations are being stymied by a Crooked Supreme Court.
People are angry, people are getting desperate.. and some folks are feeling their backs against the wall. Sabotage has been carried out by a few (sometimes legally like the Tow Truck Drivers of LA, sometimes not) but that slows things and does not prevent a riot or shooting etc. Someone somewhere will snap and Trump has his excuse for the master plan of his cronies to go into action.
I don't know what to do. Prepare for the worst is all I can think of. Can we survive an internal version of what brought about this country's creation in the modern era? And are Putin, China etc behind it all trying to set off the powderkeg for their own profit?
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in reply to Joseph Teller • •@Joseph Teller @Tom Grzybow
Joseph, you make a number of good points.
It's true that nobody can get away with today what people used to be able to get away with in yesteryear and a big reason for that is technology which is a double-edged sword. What one gets away with these days involve the "dark web" and organized crime. For that reason, although there may very well be rich people who aren't evil, it is the case that among rich people there's a lion's share of evil people who might have started out with a hoarding disorder but now need to maintain high income for the purpose of evading detection and doing more evil with impunity.
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