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What to Do if ICE Invades Your Neighborhood (www.wired.com)
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With federal agents storming the streets of American communities, there's no single right way to approach this dangerous moment. But there are steps you can take to stay safe—and have an impact.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
  • resist
  • deter
  • obstruct

a 900 count box of loose roofing nails is $18. four flat tires is about $800, plus a $400 tow.

if you can get all the tow companies to reject to tow the vehicle will block traffic for hours if not days.

cleanup is easy. just get a magnet.

latex paint can be stored in balloons. it's slippery and gets into everything. it can jam and damage firearms and make tasers no longer function safely. add in some sand to the paint and it's even worse.

lots of ways to resist without killing. just annoy the fuck out of them and waste their time. if they're dealing with the general public they can't abduct the people they're targeting.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Underrated hero

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

7.62x39

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

People are very deliberately not doing that. The idea (for the moment) is to use civil resistance to limit what ICE can accomplish while not provoking a gun battle where the federal government can outgun any local group

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Animal costumes and chants are not going to end this.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You and two buddies with rifles won't either. It takes wining Congress. Right now animal costumes which causes pepper balls to fall to the ground instead of bursting are doing more for us than guns

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you think the Democrats will stop any of this?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When they are now longer in the minority, yes

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What do you hope they will do?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm expecting a cut to ICE funding do that they are not staffed to launch military occupations of cities

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't you want arrests? Investigations? Indictments? Arrests?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Those require executive power. It can't come from congress

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Impeachment was left off my list.

[–] RivverRavven@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Civil resistance isn't working. The trump government is stomping all over you. Defend yourselves FFS. "Don't tread on me".

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

It's working fine. ICE morale and recruitment are both in the toilet, and it seems like every day we get more incidents of ICE actually being driven off by increasingly savvy local resistance. Meanwhile, every documented incident of unjustified ICE thuggery is driving public opinion further against ICE.

Honestly, it's working far better than I would have dared hope. But, as soon as protesters start shooting ICE, public opinion will swing back the other way, and Trump will finally have his justification to fill the streets with actual military.

[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

People shooting at, or killing ICE officers is exactly what the regime wants so they can declare martial law.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trump is going to fabricate some bullshit excuse to declare martial law regardless.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

Have you not been following the news? That happened, multiple times, and the courts shot him down. Protesters actually shooting at ICE will give him what he needs to satisfy the courts of a civil emergency.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Throw eggs

[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

Eggs? In this economy?

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

And sooner or later they'll find whatever thin excuse they need, at which point this excuse no linger protects fascists.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Aim for the pelvis. It isn't armored, it's easier to hit than the head, and wounds there can be incapacitating or even fatal.

[–] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yes! And it's easier to watch what thier hands are doing when you aim low! Plus most poeple miss high so your shots will still hit the torso. I started training myself to aim for lower gut, instead of center mass when I target shoot.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The only correct way to get rid of gestapo is to shoot the gestapo.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, that's hard to do at scale — a small group will be outgunned by the federal government, and a large one infiltrated. People are using nonviolent civil resistance instead for now

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People are using nonviolent civil resistance instead for ~~now~~ for the last year to absolutely zero effect.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 months ago

Its actually having a rather significant effect of greatly limiting ICE and — in the past few days — convincing the bulk of Democrats that they no longer want to fund ICE and even getting a couple dozen to support impeaching Noem.

We wont win tomorrow, but we will win over a period of years

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Barricades and firebombs

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

pass out guns to trusted neighbors

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People are not doing that because any group small enough to be trusted will be outgunned by the federal government

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The US was outgunned by the british, they still won. The Vietnamese and apghanis were outgunned by the US, they still won.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

American losses in revolutionary war, 25k. Vietnamese losses in Vietnam war, 882k. Afghan deaths in US occupation, 241k. These figures don't include those that died in the societal upheaval that followed.

Deaths at the hands of ICE, around 30. Public opinion of ICE has plummeted with the majority of Americans actually supporting abolishment. We are getting more and more frequent incidents of residents and protesters sending ICE packing by filming them and asserting their civil rights. ICE in turn is getting more violent, which is only going to drive public opinion and the courts to further oppose them.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying it's my favored strategy. I'm saying that being outgunned doesn't mean the result would be a forgone conclusion.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

The result for the people killed would be pretty foregone.