Explain Like I'm Five

If you havent read it, Sun Tzu's Art of War is a real thinker.

Oh you can tell them to piss off. But they have more guns than you do.

This is very satisfying in a schadenfreude kind of way. I have been lectured to by Americans and those influenced by them for decades about the importance of their constitutional freedoms to shoot children and spread hate speech.

Some liberal western democracies don't even have a codified constitution and still have better human rights and fairer government than the USA. Without a well functioning representative democracy with preferential or proportional voting, concentrating enormous executive power in a single tyrant without strong protections was always obviously exploitable.

I think a lot of them are still living in denial and think the good guys are going to come in and defend the constitution at the last minute. Hope they are right. It is one hell of a gamble for them and the rest of us.

Yeah, but. They have guns. So.

Laws are only laws when they're enforced. After decades of training law enforcement to hate and fear the average citizen, they don't care to enforce laws that exist to protect those citizens.

And don't tell me it's always been that way. It's a matter of degrees and there's been a effort for decades to normalize police violence. It was bad, but it's been engineered to be worse.

Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic ethnic power in a given nation, it's just a promise of violence enacted with the police acting as an occupying army.

And if the police don't enforce those threats, they have no meaning. The police are not enforcing the laws that ICE is breaking, and therefore what they're doing is effectively legal.

The Constitution also gives Congress the right to a constitutional convention. This means that it can be possible for the US to become socialist by way of constitutional reform. Seriously!

They’re all above the law. That’s how. Democracy and law and order are gone.

The asswipes have yet to apply their SS and NKVD home invasions in a Stand Your Ground Oblast.

The constitution give you a right to organize 30 of your neighbors, armed with guns, and chase them out of your neighborhood.

You also have the right to put buckshot into the face of anyone who illegally breaks into your home.

As if Trumps GeStaPo would care about the Constitution! The rule of law died in the US about a year ago.

Its not, republicans stacked the courts so they can violate the law and republicans in congress are cheering them on.

This is a nontrivial legal question.

Of course there needs to be a way for government agents to enforce immigration laws (like all other laws) and also enter private places for that purpose. You don't have an automatic right to tell them to piss off because you don't like certain laws being enforced.

What kind of warrant or situation they need exactly, courts may already have decided, or will still decide. It's obviously legal for government agents to enter homes with certain warrants, and sometimes without warrants; whether the exact thing the linked article is about will or will not be found constitutional, no one here can ELI5 to you with any certainty.

Wow. ELI5 on Lemmy is way different from ELI5 on Reddit.

Bold of you to think the law means anything to a state that doesn't care for your rights.