Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

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This is fucked

If it makes you feel any better, they have done this before. And this time the people in charge are idiots. Look up Black Wall Street, the firebombing of MOVE headquarters, killing of Fred Hampton, all that stuff. This is not new. It used to be this way a lot of the time. It’s just in a new form now, more systematic, with a ton of extra strengths and a few new weaknesses, compared to the way it came before. It’s like Pennywise. I have no idea how this time will shake out, I am afraid a little bit. But it is beatable. My concern is actually a lot more about what is going to come after, than it is that all this shit show in its current setup is indestructible.

https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/126900/8008_FDTD.pdf



It’s frustrating because back in August, when ICE went into DC people in Chicago were doing the whole anime boy butterfly meme going. “Is this MaRSHall law? What’s happening to America?” It was frustrating they ignored Los Angeles from June and didn’t know about martial. It’s frustrating because Chicago had three fucking months to prepare and learn and they didn’t. It’s still frustrating because we in LA keep reaching out to different activists to help there and hear nothing back. They have some excellent moments but they are not at all organized.

edit: I think the worst part of this story is he went back to sleep. Didn’t know to call rapid response. Didn’t have a clue about reaching out to community defense. Just was like… welp. Zzz. Smgdh.

Hey there. Not trying to get graphite on my device. What’s the pdf?

It is a handbook for resistance against a dictatorship, pretty famous among resistance movements worldwide because it was built on actual extensive study of what does and doesn’t work in a whole lot of worldwide situations both successful and not.

This talks more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dictatorship_to_Democracy

It is also here: https://archive.org/details/from_dictatorship_to_democracy_1306_librivox





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This is nazi germany shit.

Just replace the trains of naked Jews with uhauls of naked children.

That’s so fucked up, this needs to end now.

This is a mini-Kristallnacht

" The German authorities looked on without intervening.[4] The euphemistic name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were smashed. "



What the actual fuck. So uh, realistically what can someone do in this scenario? They marched innocent people out of their homes naked, they ransacked every apartment indiscriminately, they presented no warrants, they stole personal property. These people just had their lives completely flipped upside down for the crime of living in a building with another tenant that maybe shouldn’t be in the country??

This shit is so unacceptable.

So uh, realistically what can someone do in this scenario?

Spread the word. Let people know this is happening. Your allies, your conservative relatives; everyone.


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That sure feels easier said than done when it’s a hundred agents in the halls and a blackhawk helicopter over the building.

Organize and arm your neighbors as well.


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No one could possibly know that answer. Because it’s better to be disappeared if you survive and get released eventually. Obviously getting killed by federal agents is a possibility.




Hi FBI

The FBI was involved in a warrantless raid on an entire building. Use it on them.




Realistically, sue. There’s a lot of violations happening, prima facie. I am not a lawyer, not legal advice.

In real reality, for these people? Nothing. The building was in disrepair, so feds knew it was low income folks. They don’t have a lawyer on speed dial.

Fascism is coupled tightly with capitalism, in the sense of hierarchies of money/capital & money’s utility being a foil to the state’s power. If you have enough money, you can evade most issues in a fascist world, especially if you are not part of the out group. If you are in the out group, you’d need a lot of money, even on a clear cut case.

People like Schindler and Paul Rusesabagina were successful business men. Their connections to the regime and capital accrued allowed them to save people. Most couldn’t save themselves. How do you save a group? Have a bunch of money. How do you get money? Exploit the situation (and perhaps, the people).



Actual gestapo.

If you think you’re safe because you’re not currently being targeted, you’re wrong. The circle always expands until they eventually target everyone.

They’re speed-running the 4th reich, and that’s not hyperbole.

e: I can’t spell.

I think it became 100% undeniable right after Charlie Kirk died. Every fucking conservative denies it anyway.



Damn this is seriously fucked up. I wonder if anyone called the police? It probably wouldn’t have helped, but still.

Yeah the feds called the local police ahead of time and said “check this shit out”


I’m sure they were on scene—directing traffic for the gestapo.


If we hadn’t already had an ongoing police problem, fighting fire with fire might have helped. It calls to mind an early scene of The Bourne Identity where he calls that country’s 9-1-1 so the police run into the agency/assets after them as a distraction.

But we have a serious police problem too, so they’d just cheer each other on. Or worse, compete to see who is more evil.



My country tis

Sweet land of conservative tyranny

Of the I sing

Land where legal rights die

Land of precrime

From every mountainside

Hear freedom dying.

Edit: formatting

Man I’m sorry but the scansion on this is awful.

Lol, thanks, boss. I typed it up on the shitter.

I read it on the shitter! It’s a small, porcelain world. 🤣





Especially the last Paragraph really reads like a certain scene from Schindlers List.


due process. no warrants. this is what you get. where do you live. they say they think someone somewhere where you live is a criminal and they can knock down all the doors and take all the people and shit. Trump says chicago has to much crime so hes fixing it by kidnapping and stealing all the shit. This is going to reduce theft and violent crime massively because you can’t get things stolen if they already have been stolen by the feds and people can’t be assaulted if they are hauled away.


God damn disgusting fascist monsters. That’s not hyperbole. That’s not a targeted threat. That’s just a fact of reality.


I live in a community with tons of undocumented workers. As an obvious American citizen I’m so ready to be the biggest pain in ass if they try this in my apartment complex. Their day would get hours longer.

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Oh they don’t. But I literally have nothing to lose so, blaze of glory and all.

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Bruh. Lol you okay?






What the fuck this is so infuriating


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