cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/69587
As President Donald Trump prepares to further unleash a rapidly expanding surveillance state against the administration’s critics, recent legal struggles from activists who document and protest Trump’s mass deportation campaign may be a preview of what’s to come as part of a broader effort to silence dissent. Trump made headlines on September 22 with an executive order declaring “Antifa,”…
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On September 2, the Instagram account for StopIce.net shared a video identifying a Border Patrol agent involved in a recent Los Angeles area immigration raid and welcoming him to a “wall of shame.” Meta gave the users just 10 days to challenge the subpoena before their information would be released to the government, according to The Intercept.
Exposing the identities of ICE agents on social media only to have the exposure of your own identity threatened by the same platform caving to ICE is an irony befitting what has become the most common, inadequate response to fascist violence in the U.S.
A shared suffering may be what finally unites us in the face of a complete lack of political ambition and class consciousness amongst north american settlers. Something that even I myself have become a slave and solicitor of.
We will have to watch the boots tread, for now.
