The bystanders, two women, who questioned the ICE agents and stood between them and their target outside the general district court Tuesday also wore face masks. ICE says the pair will face federal obstruction charges.
“The U.S. Attorney’s Office intends to prosecute those individuals,” ICE said.
Brian McGinn, the spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia, had nothing to add.
“We cannot confirm or deny the existence of an ongoing investigation,” he told The Daily Progress.
The two women appear to be volunteers with the Immigration Rapid Response Hotline, a public service promoted by several civil rights and immigrant support groups. A witness to the Tuesday raid told The Daily Progress that the hotline had been called when the ICE agents were spotted.
Normally I would assume the government would squash any uprising like a bug but things are so crazy and everything is stretched so thin, they’re taking a bigger risk than they think in assuming it will break their way
According to this website (thanks you capo dog), there’s a minimum 6,000 active duty troops most continental us states (coastal states have a lot more), totallimg 1.1 millon troops
those leftie gun clubs I’ve seen photos of have like 20 members, and theyre not logistically set up to communicate with other groups. This does make it harder to squash if it pops off in many places at once, but I think the us&a will crush whatever tbh
one negative of having no conscription is reds dont have a presence in the armed forces
That is part of the reason they got rid of conscription. During Vietnam, there were studies done that showed that a large number of officer death were likely ‘friendly fire’ incidents by conscripts. That and it got rid of the social pressure created by constant protests of conscription at home. As the empire begins to flail though, it wouldn’t surprise me if they start to reintroduce the idea of mandatory service.
I agree. they fucked up by alienating their own government and defunding and disrupting everything. they could have implemented an ironclad well oiled fascist machine by just not pushing the “break economy” button and leaving the administrative state alone for the duration of their crackdown