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Tim, call in the state troopers and NG to remove these MAGA NAZIS before they kill more people.
Minnesota YOU ARE UNDER ATTACK!
I can promise you that Minnesotans know this.
Previously I was under the impression that Walz could unilaterally activate the NG without trump being able to federalize them I was wrong.
The state police are small and theres more than 3000 agents in Minneapolis. They are being provided instructions and intelligence from a PMC. This is a full fledged paramilitary.
The media, however, has completely ignored the fierce amount of civil disobedience and counter ICE actions going on. The problem is that ICE is ambushing victims, grabbing them and leaving.
Yeah it’s really hard as they drive up in unmarked cars and go. A lot of times the windows are tinted and you have seconds to react.
When they were in Chicago I’d try to look for trucks, SUVs, and minivans as those were the most likely to hold a lot of agents.
PMC = Private Military Company, then?
Contractor, but yeah.
ok, thanks
It's symbolic. They can call in state defense force and state police to apprehend them if they feel like they can claim they are committing crime. Then you see who does what. The only options are to escalate or capitulate.
Or he could fucking prosecute them now...
I had a lot of hopes for Walz until he was in a position to actually do something. It makes sense now why the neoliberals threw him with Kamala.
It would be nice.... But I think we're running into politicians discovering that the American police state is above the law.
I don't think anyone wants to address the elephant in the room that even if the governor of a state had the balls to order state police to arrest ice agents, they wouldn't obey the order.
Cops in Minnesota have already released press statements that they side with "law enforcement", and you really can't prosecute anyone if you aren't able to detain them in the first place.
States need to start banning police fraternities and unions and firing any cop who isn't willing to follow the rule of law.
So just keep firing police chiefs until you find one who will.
Again.... I'm not sure that officers would follow the orders even if you could find a police chief willing to stand up to the fraternal orders.
We're in the age old "who watches the watchmen" scenario. Politicians over decades have empowered the police to protect their classes self interest to the point where we don't really have a way to control them any more.
Or start deputizing people who will. Police say they won't help? There's plenty of people out there who will. The admin wants to claim it's a Wild West city? Treat it like one.
They don't exist.
Fair point, but I'll take empty posturing that people might run further with than Walz actually wants them to over stuff like
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It indicative of the belief that people work for government officials...
Like. Step back and think for a second about all the fucking police resources a city has, all the surveillance and shit that goes on.
If he wanted to gather information on who ICE is, he has avenues to identify them besides asking residents to follow them around with cameras knowing full and well that gets people attacked by ICE.
If Walz was still a highschool football coach and saying this, I'd give him props.
But he's a fucking governor...
He's better than Jeffries and Schumer, but that's not enough for a mayor these days, let alone someone running an entire fucking state. Bunch of words and zero action just like Newspm and Pritzker. If shit was fine they could be decent leaders, but they've shown time and time again they won't take any actual action when we're being murdered in their states by federal agents.
They don't have the fight in them, so we can't afford to let them be leaders during a fight.
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Like, he can just have cops follow ICE and document with their body cams or even a dude with a camera. That would be much better evidence later. And they could actually intervene when ICE breaks the law.
He can use stingrays to ping their phones as the roll out of where they deploy from
He can have cops detain them
There are so many more options a state has to stop federal overreach and abuses than random citizens can.
Walz ain't asking us to help. He's telling us he won't do shit and it's on us
And if that's what he wants to do, he can get the fuck out of the way and let someone else lead while he follows
I'm not ready to write him off yet. He's walking a knife edge right now, and has to be careful. If he deploys the National Guard, or even the police, he's kicking off a Civil War, and that will give Trump all the rationalization he needs to invoke the Insurrection Act, or even Martial Law. Walz knows we have to keep a lid on things and stay totally on the side of Constitutional law, until after the Midterms.
I'm still holding out hope that he has a plan once he's done with being governor. I wouldn't be surprised to see him run for president.
until after the Midterms
Are we still pretending we're having those? Trump isn't.
https://time.com/7346834/trump-canceling-midterm-elections-joking-white-house/
Pedo hitler can say whatever he wants, but the states run their own elections. If my state suspends elections I will bring a lawsuit for violation of my right to vote.
I think they will "happen" but they won't be legitimate. There is going to be voter intimidation across the board, and ICE is going to post up at blue polling locations. And theyre going to continue to try to invalidate mail in voting.
"Remain peaceful while armed thugs are killing you and dragging you away to camps! We'll be sitting here not doing anything to help you!"
This is war with the Federal government. It's time they stopped pretending otherwise.
What I want to see is people telling these ICE agents the truth.
Point out Trump's failing health, and that he might not even live long enough to finish his term. Show them that he has attacked anybody who could be his successor so the MAGA movement will collapse as soon as he's gone.
Let them know that they will be prosecuted like the guards for Hitler's concentration camps. Just following orders won't be any excuse. Even if they manage to avoid prison time, the fact they worked for ICE means that when Trump's out of office, nobody will ever hire them again. It doesn't matter if they were just doing it to feed their families, being a former ICE member will be seen like being a former member of the Gestapo, a mark of shame for their families for decades to come.
Tell them that hiding their faces isn't enough. Ask them if they fully trust every other ICE agent, or if ICE might have been infiltrated by protesters. Point out that their fellow agents have already screwed up and left behind lists of ICE agents when they've had to leave a place in a hurry. Tell them that with modern cameras it's just a matter of time before an unusual mole or the edges of a tattoo are enough to identify them.
Then tell them that there's only one way to salvage their reputations and their future career prospects, and that's to become whistle blowers.
Nice story, but January 6th rioters were all eventually given a pass, and that's what the ICE clowns anticipate. Just following orders, etc.
They were...by Trump. He's gone in this scenario.
And in order to prosecute, you need an opposition party win or a republican with a backbone.
Jan 6 rioters got a pass because Trump was elected. Once Trump is dead, that's no longer going to be possible.
At the risk of asking a stupid question. Is this really going to help now that Trump has demonstrated that his DOJ has the power to remove criminal investigations from a local level and reassign them to a federal level? Where they will then (Of course) refuse to even investigate let alone prosecute. Is there some other way to seek accountability right now? Or do we literally have to wait for the next administration to do anything with all the evidence being recorded right now?
I read somewhere that the states can go after ICE agents if they break state law. IANAL but I think MN state lawyers are doing what they can.
The challenge is that the DoJ is obstructing state justice and withholding evidence.
This is the same bull shit energy you tell a kid who's getting bullied. "Don't worry, it'll get better in the future."
Delusional wishful thinking. There's no going back, things will never be the same even after the big beautiful obituary.
Yep people want to still think that this is just a bump in the road. During Trump's first term, I thought that there was a glimmer of hope there that this could be true, but Joe Biden's administration proved that there is no going back. It was a pleasant four year reprieve from waking up to a fresh new hell every morning, but at this point Trump and his associated chaos and fascism are back.
Marxists of course predicted this the whole time but I was holding out a little hope that they were wrong. They were terribly, disastrously correct.
The DNC broke that man
I know this is FUBAR, but I think its funny that the 2nd amendment actually exists for this exact reason of State's having their own militias that they can use, but of course they're not going to actually use it.
Walz is taking a zero confrontational approach, so he's defnitley at fault here, but state NGs haven't exactly been effective since before the 1940s.
If anyone remembers the University of Alabama desegragation fiasco, JFK federalized Alabama's national guard and essentially crippled what power the state governor had as a bunch of soldiers showed up to escort students and shove him aside.
Make sure you store it on servers outside the United States, too.
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