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“My [drug dealer] is [feeling the effects] of a [Percocet 30mg] so I stole a quantity of fifteen [hand pressed 10mg oxycodone tablets] and absconded with my loot.”

I suspect this is a bold-faced lie and they basically just had to ask Google for the footage, because Google doesn’t follow their own policies or the law when it comes to privacy.

I think life imprisonment and death are essentially the same punishment, with the caveat that you can release a wrongfully imprisoned man but you cannot un-execute someone.

Executions and vigilante justice are for failing and failed states where the odds of seeing justice though more civilized means are remote to nonexistent, often through their own capture of the system. If you have the power to do so, imprisonment is always preferable.

Reminder that the people who lynched Ahmaud Arbery almost got away with it until they were stupid enough to release the footage of the murder, thinking it would exonerate them and people would call them heroes. Over two months with no arrests.

Couldn’t even get a grand jury indictment. No doubt the local yokels closed ranks. Made up some nonsense about it being an accident.

It’s still a significant escalation of “extralegal” activity on the same level as torching a police cruiser in a parking lot, and isn’t really congruous with the first paragraph in that regard. Probably from ignorance of how serious signal jamming is more than anything.

It’s like saying to leave your phone at home and know your rights, but also remember that .243 Winchester lead-free ammo can penetrate level IV plates.

and uses four times the electricity and substances that have been banned since the 80s

They learned that you can make a fuckload of money off of public misfortune if you position yourself correctly.

Something something all authority is born at the end of a gun.

“A lawyer says this is illegal.” They’ll deny access to lawyers. They’ll ignore lawyers. They’ll arrest lawyers. I’m pretty sure they’ve done all three at least once by now. Once killing people becomes open policy and not something they have to hide and mask through innuendo, they’ll kill lawyers, too.

They are the ones with the guns and the audacity to use them, so they have the power of action while we throw paper at them.

You’re right, subsume is probably a better word, but they cannot do that without utterly invalidating the systems that exist now that are in their way. And they are doing that through audaciously and violently ignoring them, so don’t be surprised when they do the same to the Western concept of criminal justice.

If anything it’s more ammunition for their dissolution of civil society. “See, the courts are broken, we have no choice but to detain people without warrants and trials.”

Did we? We arrested state legislators for demanding to be let into Delaney Hall detention center and nothing really happened about that. AFAIK ICE has been a constant but relatively low profile fixture in places like Newark and Paterson since this whole thing started.

Dems wanted a healthy population to save money, Republicans want a healthy population so they can join the military to kill and die for imperial interest.

They aren’t just lying, they’re actively disdainful of the bodies questioning them. I think they’re daydreaming of the point in the coup that they can throw them all in prison for sedition.

In specifically small arms, I’m not so sure. I’d bet that the American public buys enough firearms every year to arm every American soldier two or three times over. Ruger and PSA aren’t competing with Raytheon and L3Harris.

They are also doing it because they know they are deeply unpopular with the non-fascist public and risk being overrun by a crowd if they only have 2-3 thugs on it. Need enough people on a perimeter explicitly threatening to gun people down like they did with Floyd.

The moment Demon Miller got on CNN or whatever and said to the host he was belittling “We live in the real world where what matters is strength”, every single one of our allies should have started drafting and updating plans on how to kill American soldiers and wage war against the US.

I believe that was one of the most foreboding statements that has come out of the administration so far. A blatant admission that they do not care about laws or ethics, only strength of arms.

She was put there to demoralize and delegitimize the very ideas of honesty and accountability from the executive as well as the press that tries to extract it, this is no accident or fumbling. In her shamelessness she’s just better at it than her, what, five predecessors?

Sooner or later when they seize enough power they’ll remove all press access for anyone who isn’t a complete state-sactioned stooge, or just dispose of the function altogether.

“Your mom.” - actual White House press statement

By that time the “minute men” were already a fairly well armed and organized militia, as far as militias go. I see no viable parallel today, even in nascent form.

Any armed group greater than around four people is compromised by federal law enforcement, the far right learned this decades ago.

I care what happens to them, just not in the way they’d prefer.

The majority of people who support ICE believe that the people who don’t are traitors and not real Americans who deserve to be cast aside if not punished. They are never going to be swayed by fact, let alone public opinion.

“The Second American Revolution will be bloodless if the left allows it to be.” These people are at war with us.