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‘No Kings’ Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings

Bonnot said:
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'No Kings’ Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings

Army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide.
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Army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide.

So the gov is spying on it's own citizens and considering them as a threat for protesting and tracking the bullshit kidnapping raids.
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This reminds me of the CB radio heydays, when truckers used their CB radios to inform other truckers of locations, police patrol cars, and speed traps. So basically, this is the same idea, just different technology.
 
NOLA Dude said:


They dictated you lock yourselves at home while they went to the salon and dined at fancy restaurants and took vacations and threw parties

They dictate language, want to dictate what you drive, want to dictate how you cook your food, dictate that you ignore basic biological realities

Disobey the dictators and they kill careers, kill reputations, kill relationships, destroy city blocks, resort to terrorism

They crave control, and embrace social and political violence when they lose it

...but they are fighting to save democracy!
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Those basic rules were also used in the UK.
Are the No King's people also in charge here as well?
 
Linuxcooldude said:
I mean, if we are comparing riots, BLM riots had estimated +2 Billion in damage, 14,000 arrests and 19 deaths.
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Clashes and violence were, particularly in Minneapolis and Portland, initiated by protestors, counterprotesters, opportunistic criminals and by extremist groups. Various groups, including white supremacist and anti-government far-right groups, including the Proud Boys, were present at the protests in Portland.

Additionally, there were multiple reports, including videos, of overly aggressive police using excessive physical force on protestors. Police used violent tactics like tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets on innocent bystanders and journalists, often without any provocation. Some news agencies reported that the police aggression, meant to impose order, were instead inflaming tensions. Amnesty International denounced police violence against protestors and called for the police to stop their excessive militarized responses to the protests.

The murder of George Floyd set off protests in 60 countries, not only in the U.S. Unfortunately, police brutality is not uncommon around the world. If anything good came out of the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests, no black man or woman has been killed by a rogue policeman in nearly five years. That we know of, anyway.
 
CLAX1911 said:
He is mistaken traffic violations are criminal. When you get a traffic citation the police officer writing it makes you sign the back of it and that's a promise that you will show up in court. If you refuse to sign that they will arrest you.

Typically civil law is handled by process servers not necessarily please.
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Traffic violations don’t make someone a criminal. If they did, it means we are a country full of criminals.
 
HumblePi said:
Clashes and violence were, particularly in Minneapolis and Portland, initiated by protestors, counterprotesters, opportunistic criminals and by extremist groups. Various groups, including white supremacist and anti-government far-right groups, including the Proud Boys, were present at the protests in Portland.

Additionally, there were multiple reports, including videos, of overly aggressive police using excessive physical force on protestors. Police used violent tactics like tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets on innocent bystanders and journalists, often without any provocation. Some news agencies reported that the police aggression, meant to impose order, were instead inflaming tensions. Amnesty International denounced police violence against protestors and called for the police to stop their excessive militarized responses to the protests.

The murder of George Floyd set off protests in 60 countries, not only in the U.S. Unfortunately, police brutality is not uncommon around the world. If anything good came out of the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests, no black man or woman has been killed by a rogue policeman in nearly five years. That we know of, anyway.
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Notice, I said BLM riots, not BLM protests. Protests good, riots bad. My post still stands.
 
devildavid said:
BLM didn’t hold any riots, just protests. Your posts falls down and goes boom.
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So it was just the BLM leaders siphoning money to buy expensive multiple houses, if that’s where you want to go. Yeah, there were still BLM riots.
 
Atomic Kid said:
Well, yeah, that would be weird and likely illegal.
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It's like that.

We usually give law enforcement more leeway in terms of investigating crimes, but we're only comfortable with the arrangement when they are sworn to uphold our rights and there is a judicial system to appeal to to check their authority if misused.

When that system fails the citizens might want to keep a closer eye on what the government is doing, and the government then perceives it as a threat.

That's where we are now. The government wants the power to track everyone for any reason without review or basic rights protections solidly in place, and considers it a threat if you point out where they are.
 
Linuxcooldude said:
Such posts are considered off topic. With some posters, English maybe their second or third language. If a member can generally read and understand a post, it’s enough.

When some posters lack an argument, they often quibble about punctuation and spelling. Hopefully, it won’t be you.
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The topic to which I was replying was @CLAX1911's claim that he had just made a simple error, which he had then corrected, and that this should be enough for anyone to understand what he means when he says "protesting is something taken to add on to believe it enough exists but nothing real."

Do you understand what "protesting is something taken to add on to believe it enough exists but nothing real" means? Some of us genuinely don't.

The fact that he made three more errors in the course of claiming that he had corrected his error is ironic and amusing.

We aren't quibbling over punctuation in lieu of an argument because "protesting is something taken to add on to believe it enough exists but nothing real" presents us with an unassailably salient point against which no reasonable counterargument can be made. It's just that it really is unintelligible gibberish.

If you are able to translate for him, I will be happy to address the actual content of argument rather than quibble over punctuation. Just as soon as I know what the actual content of the argument is.
 
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Variant said:
It's like that.

We usually give law enforcement more leeway in terms of investigating crimes, but we're only comfortable with the arrangement when they are sworn to uphold our rights and there is a judicial system to appeal to to check their authority if misused.

When that system fails the citizens might want to keep a closer eye on what the government is doing, and the government then perceives it as a threat.
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In this case, it's not the No Kings people/organization the Army Intelligence views as being the threat, but rather the technological platforms they're using being misused.
 
Atomic Kid said:
In this case, it's not the No Kings people/organization the Army Intelligence views as being the threat, but rather the technological platforms they're using being misused.
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The police are simply going to have to get used to being watched. There is literally no other way they can be trusted.
 
Atomic Kid said:
In this case, it's not the No Kings people/organization the Army Intelligence views as being the threat, but rather the technological platforms they're using being misused.
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Reporting where police are is legal and not a threat. Waze, Google Maps and Apple maps have allowed such reporting for years.
 
Variant said:
The police are simply going to have to get used to being watched. There is literally no other way they can be trusted.
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Absolutely! They aren't happy about body cams being mandated, and they don't like it when bystanders take out their cellphones to videotape them.
 
ClaraD said:
No, it isn’t.
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What would you know about it
ClaraD said:
You do maintenance as a mechanic. You’re not a contractor, builder, architect etc
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I was a contractor. I did that were kind of contract basis. No I wasn't a builder. I wouldn't consider architect to be a physically demanding job.
 
CLAX1911 said:
What would you know about it

I was a contractor. I did that were kind of contract basis. No I wasn't a builder. I wouldn't consider architect to be a physically demanding job.
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Im a contractor. I don’t say the dude who fixes our skid is in construction
 
ClaraD said:
Im a contractor.
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I was contracted I wasn't an employee.
ClaraD said:
I don’t say the dude who fixes our skid is in construction
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I was it normally at the construction sites when they were doing dirt work. I fixed my share at skid steers. But my specialty was motor graders. I worked on a lot of backhoes bulldozers and all that sort of thing.

I worked in the construction industry.
 
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