287(g) - The Brown Shirts Are Coming!
Too late - the American SA is on the rise.
I wasn’t going to write this weekend, but now I’m getting homework from my fellow organizers - lol. One of them asked me to write this, so you get a bonus post this week. I’m happy to, and I hope you spread this far and wide. Sourced with links so you can tell the haters to fuck off when they object. This post runs longer than most of mine. Enjoy.
Enacted in 1996, Section 287(g) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act allows the Department of Homeland Security to deputize local cops, turning them into federal agents so they can enforce federal immigration law.
There is a lot to unpack there.
Most cops that I’ve dealt with don’t always have a good understanding of the local and state laws they are enforcing already anyway. They certainly don’t seem to understand basic Constitutional rights in a lot of cases. I don’t know what kind of continuing education they take, but it isn’t happening, isn’t working or they are acting in bad faith. Example, I got pulled over for flashing my headlights to warn others about the speedtrap ahead. A second cop saw me and pulled me over, then argued with me it was illegal. Nope. SCOTUS ruled that it was legal and protected Free Speech in 1996. Do I really expect cops to know and follow the federal laws? They should, but I don’t. I think that guy was acting in bad faith, or he would have given me a ticket if he was just ignorant, something I would have won in court.
Don’t argue with cops though. I use my privilege to push back on the system because a lot of people can’t.
To make matters worse, a lot of cowboy sheriffs in this country still have a “posse” formed and ready to go. Why? They don’t need it. They are just civilian gun owners and wanna be cops who are called up when they need extra hands. How long until those assholes start showing up and kidnapping people? There are already rumors of groups of MAGA dressing up as fake cops and trying to intimidate immigrants or people they think may be immigrants. Don’t tell me it isn’t happening: Source 1. Source 2. On top of all that, a huge proportion of American police departments are highly militarized now, using military surplus equipment. And this is facts: Cops in this country have looser rules of engagement than I did when in Saudi Arabia and Iraq for Desert Shield/Desert Storm. That should terrify you. I couldn’t so much as load my rifle without direct orders, but we got cops shooting you for being rebuked.
If I see someone I am sure is a fake cop attempting to kidnap someone, I will act under state law. I will use my lawfully carried firearm (I have a permit) and I will shoot them to stop a forcible felony. All of that is 100% justified under my state’s laws, and I won’t be charged. Just like I wouldn’t be if I was stopping a murder or a rape. There is no reason to impersonate an ICE agent unless you are just a racist asshole. I’m not going to feel bad about making a good Nazi out of them.
What about the real cops? They are not showing badges or warrants, so how do we know they are in fact cops? Why aren’t they in uniform? Why are they masked? Fucking cowards. Regardless of being real or not, they are just grabbing people off the street, or at least attempting to. In the video linked here, this person is doing a great job fending off these fucks. He is keeping his back protected and keeping distance all around him in an arc. He has good situational awareness so he isn’t getting hemmed in. Filming is key and he does a good job of getting it all. Repeatedly stating he does not consent to a search.
Throw some more in there. “Am I being detained?” “Am I free to go?” I don’t know the context of that video, but I hope he got out safely. He did a great job though. That quick flash of the badge doesn’t mean a fucking thing to me when I see no other badges, uniforms, or equipment. Nope. At the very least I’m arguing loudly with those fucks and telling them to leave this guy alone - they look fake to me and are certainly acting sus. Real cops don’t fuck around, they just rush you and tackle you to the ground.
Sooner or later these fake ass cops and deputized local cops are going to enter the wrong house without a warrant, faces covered, and get shot. It’s just a matter of time. But no-knock warrants are a whole other post, and another reason why ACAB.
Enrique Tarrio, the ironically not white leader of the white supremacist virulently racist Proud Boys, recently met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Tarrio is a convicted seditionist who was one of the ones behind the J6 insurrection. (It wasn’t a riot, and fuck that traitor Ashli Babbit.) So ask yourself, why would the President of the United States meet with a piece of shit like that? Tarrio as no money to donate. (Side note because it is funny, a black church owns the trademark to the Proud Boys name after the church won a lawsuit against those idiots for a hate crime. Lol.)
Short history lesson: The German Sturmabteilung, or SA, were the “Brown Shirts.” Fanatical followers of Hitler and the Nazi party, they were directed by Hitler to provide protection for Nazi rallies, disrupt opposition gatherings, engage in street brawls against political opponents, and to generally intimidate people. The SA members numbered in the millions and had a huge cache of arms.
Short history lesson: The American MAGA/Proud Boys/Oathkeepers/III’ers/KKK/Neo-Nazis are a group of people working together. Fanatical followers of Trump and the Republican party, they were directed by Trump to provide protection for his rallies, disrupt opposition gatherings such as the certification of the votes leading to an insurrection, and to engage in street brawls against political opponents. When not doing that, they generally try to intimidate people by driving giant trucks aggressively while displaying Trump flags. These cultists number in the millions and have a huge cache of arms.
There is no difference between the Christian Nationalists that are behind Project 2025, all the vile shit going on today with the GOP/MAGA, and ISIS. All three are using religion to excuse racism, sexism and cruelty. Section 287(g) (as well as that entire law) were always about racism anyway, but now it is on steroids, and being mainlined by millions of voters, politicians and cops to help destroy our country from within to make an ethnostate, their end goal. Their excuse is an “immigrant crime spree” that doesn’t exist and never has. (That’s another post I should write.)
Why are Trump and Tarrio meeting? My guess is at some point he is going to use some flimsy bullshit to deputize the Proud Boys and Oathkeepers as his own personal Brown Shirts, especially as summer protests heat up. They are already acting that way unofficially anyway, he might as well make it as legal as he can. Then you will have traitors to the country who are also racist and hate women, running around under federal authority terrorizing people. I also think he wants to cultivate ties to these groups he once told to “stand back and stand by” and then threatened us antifa. He will use them to help install himself in a third term, something that will certainly spark a civil war.
Back to 287(g) deportations, you can bet those “Constitutional Sheriffs” with their fucking posses will be helping the new American SA and leading the charge, sucking Trump’s fat ass the entire way. I can see sheriffs deputizing idiots like Tarrio and letting them raid people’s homes at some point. It won’t matter if it is legal or not - Trump is already ignoring multiple court orders, and our DOJ and Congress aren’t doing shit about it. Two branches are functionally broken and the third is hopelessly corrupt and out of control. It’s even turning into mainstream entertainment for the right. Fucking Dr. Phil was embedded with ICE. WHY? What possible reason could there be for a scumbag like him to be on an ICE raid? How long until some sheriff brings along his nephew, or drinking buddies, or some shit like that, and it goes wrong?
Short history lesson: During the Night of the Long Knives, over 200 SA officers were caught and killed in a purge of leadership by men at Hitler’s command. After that, the SA were used by those in power to continue their reign of terror.
Enrique Tarrio, Stewart Rhodes, and all these other traitors are living on borrowed time - Trump will cast them off, maybe imprison them. I wouldn’t put it past him to have them killed now that SCOTUS has wrongly ruled presidents have immunity.
#EpsteinDidntKillHimself
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I encourage you to know you rights. I encourage you to exercise them ALL, legally, and that includes the Second Amendment. I am not advocating for violence at all, but no one should just be fucking kidnapped off the streets. No due process. And who is to say you aren’t legitimately being kidnapped by cosplayers? The government was doing that shit during the BLM protests too. If I’m at a protest and an unmarked van pulls up, men in black with no badges jump out, I’m unloading on them. Sure, I’ll die, but I’ll die free and not at fucking Gitmo or CECOT, or stranded in South Sudan someplace, which is where the latest batches have gone. If none of that pisses you off, they are deporting American citizens now too, so I wouldn’t put it past them to grab political dissidents like myself and my antifa collective under the guise of 287(g). If you know your rights, you may get out of the situation. If someone comes for you, try to make sure someone knows, preferably someone who knows you. That’s why you see videos of people filming these illegal kidnappings in places like NYC, and asking the victims their names as they get carried away.
My advice to everyone in the struggle: Get a shotgun for home defense. Learn how to use and maintain it, and keep it safely stored out of the hands of kids. Get a striker fired pistol in 9mm or .45 if you are big like me for every day carry and do the same with the shotgun. Get some mace and make sure it is accessible as you go about your day and you know how to use it. Learn the local laws regarding all of the above and act within them. If you have the means, keep a lawyer on retainer. Get security cameras for the house that get you a live feed to your phone. If you like animals and will be a good companion, AND you have the means for vet care and all that, get a dog or dogs. They scare off a lot of people, including maybe fake cops. Real cops WILL shoot your dogs though, it seems to be a sport for them. I’ve had them threaten to shoot ours before. In the Army we said, “keep your head on a swivel.” I’m constantly scanning the faces of people and watching for bad actors or other trouble. It helps me catch shit going on at school with the kids, and it helps at protests. It also helps me look for bad actors like your average criminal, or a real threat like one of the Oathkeepers who knows me and where I live.
Mark my words: We will find a Hispanic family murdered one day by cosplaying ICE agents who are secretly KKK, Proudboys, Oathkeepers, Neo-Nazis, or some other bullshit. Our country is too fucked up now for it to not happen. Or maybe they will go on a rape spree or something. People are fucking demented, and those kinds of things happened in Germany too.
All of this is why I protest. I don’t care if you are here legally or not, the fucking Constitution says you get due process. Every human being on our soil gets due process, even a fat sack of traitorous shit like Trump gets it every time he is in court.
I encourage you to use https://5calls.org/ and other methods to let your reps know that this onerous use of 287(g) needs to stop and we need to repeal that section of the law, if not the entire thing. I also encourage you to amplify my voice as much as possible. Not because I want to be famous, but I want people to know the issues and not be afraid to be out there protesting with me. I encourage you to amplify the voices of people like me who you agree with.
June 14th - No Kings. I’m likely going to hit up some other stuff in the meantime. I hope to see you out there as part of the www.fiftyfifty.one movement that day - we should have well over 1,000 protests nationwide again. The great part about it is that we are legally exercising federal rights granted to ALL people here. And that really pisses off the right. Fuck ‘em. And they call us the snowflakes.
If you are at a large protest or other location, you can block people to keep them from being kidnapped. You just have to act. Put yourselves between the victims and the pigs. It’s called civil disobedience. We just need folks willing to throw themselves on the gears of the machine and catch a charge. Scary, I know.
Stay safe everyone, be peaceful and non-violent. ACAB. 161. Fuck DJT.