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Unless you're an ICE agent. Then it's okay to execute citizens who are exercising their Constitutional rights.

There is an inherent tension here in wanting the rule of law and peaceful democracy to prevail instead of political violence. But the reality is that doesn't always happen. Slavery wasn't ended with a vote, neither was the rule of King George over the colonies. Civil Rights weren't granted to black folks without a lot of civil disobedience and violent responses by the local authorities.

Hopefully the next administration will abolish ICE and will seriously reform immigration policies peacefully for the benefit of migrants and citizens alike.

This isn't to defend shooting at a police officer, but the framing by the administration and the right is this was the result of a dangerous left-wing terrorist organization, not a response to lawless actions by ICE spurred on by the administration, and how it's hurting people being ripped away from their lives because officials like Stephen Miller hate non-white immigrants.

And again, it was one person who did the shooting, not the dude who got 30 years for moving some written material.



>Unless you're an ICE agent. Then it's okay to execute citizens who are exercising their Constitutional rights.

I have yet to see anybody assert this, and I have yet to see it happen.




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