Would community defense organizing be good?

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    What I would like to see is local organizations, like even city councils, running programs to arm thier citizens. Ideally with free training and such as a requirement. Super awesome would be if they setup shop near protest sites to do some basic training and then sell the weapons to the people legally for like $10 or something. Essentially, legally and responsibly arm the protestors. If ICE starts shooting, they return fire. That should really give ICE pause.

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        12 days ago

        No, and if there were, it would likely give actual legal grounds for the federal government to invoke the Insurrection Act which would allow domestic deployment of the US military - not National Guard, full military. Local PD isn’t doing much for the same reason.

        • Local PD aren’t doing anything to stop this because the police forces are mainly staffed by low-IQ Republicans who, if anything, will protect ICE with the argument that ICE is federal and therefore apparently can ignore all laws.

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            6 days ago

            I live in a rich suburb of a big city and as far as I can tell the city actually has control of the police, the police union isn’t run by a bunch of comic book villains, and the non-MAGA “good cops” actually want to work here, and do. Hop over to the big city and their police union acts as a 4th arm of government run by truly evil people.

            Local PD can’t do anything because the second they do, Insurrection Act.

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          11 days ago

          Seems all you need to use to get the threat of the insurrection act is a snow shovel. Go big or go home I say. And even without it, he deployed marines in so cal.