FBI agents handcuffed Alejandro Theodoro Orellana for allegedly “distributing face shields to suspected rioters” on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli posted.
FBI agents handcuffed Alejandro Theodoro Orellana for allegedly “distributing face shields to suspected rioters” on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli posted.
For me, as a Ukrainian, it’s surreal to read about this sort of news in the US.
I will note that Maidan protest against Yanukovich, the traitor and russian agent, accelerated in February 2014 (they had been going on since 2013) when Yanukovich tried to criminalise protest including specifically targeting covering your face.
At any rate, I have a feeling the situation in the US is entering a make or break phase. Good luck and courage to all sane Americans.
I think a corollary would be the Euromaidan/ Maidan protests of 2014. The US has been utterly corrupted by fascist ideology through distributed and targeted propaganda campaigns coming out of, guess who, Russia.
I think we’re just getting started. Two things: one, that the US military police state has an extreme propensity for violence; and two the American people are slow to move, but once motivated to act, tend to also escalate with additional force. We’re entering a protests get met with force, protests expand, become more extreme fly wheel. People on the right have been propagandized to for decades to prepare for “war” against their fellow citizens. And I mean that in no uncertain terms. This is a propaganda effort that’s been in effect for decades.
I am not going make any predictions, but with the expansion of anti-regime protests, it seems that the situation is entering a new phase.
As the old saying goes, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
While I agree that American security forces tend to have what I call “wannabe cowboy syndrome” (I have firsthand experiences when I was living and travelling to the US), I would also consider more base human reactions with respect to the attitude of the security services.
No one wants to be the one forced to do the dirty work and take the bulk of the risk. This is human nature. And at some point US security forces might question whether they want to take the heat for some oligarchs and other senior criminals.
I would also question the willingness of the US pro-oligarch plebs to actually engage in “war”. There is a lot of crazies (especially with the militia LARP that’s popular in the US), but the average pro-corruption American arguably has a very low tolerance for challenges. It’s one thing to talk big and another thing to well actually put your life on the line (engaging in “war” also means there is a solid chance you get hit).
Just some thoughts from someone who has loved in both the US and Ukraine (this were I currently live too).
We appreciate the perspective. I would say my concern is that there won’t be much of a cost for going along and abusing citizens. There are a lot of voices on the left of our political spectrum that are very much stuck in the “law and order” and “back the blue” mindset, so even when those forces are clearly contributing to the degradation of orderly society, no one is willing to put pressure on them from above. And pressure from below is met with extreme force that’s then propagandized by our news media to be a justified reaction and that anything less than full compliance with law enforcement is inherently illegitimate.
The cops are mostly already aligned with the American right, they’ve been training to be “warriors” for decades, and the left of center power centers never want to criticize them. Some of them got tired during BLM and would whine about not being appreciated enough, but that’s mostly still just a social consequence, and they have so so many voices calling them heroes and encouraging them to be even worse.
For sure, I agree that US security services seem rather trigger happy and there are massive issues with propaganda in the US (far worse than in many other countries, perhaps even most countries).
Just sharing some thoughts.
But American police are also trained to not risk their lives or be heros.
I wonder how much adversity they would be willing to tolerate if there is real violence.
They’ve been told for years that if they let their guard down or give an inch of kindness they’re going to be killed by dangerous minority criminals, and that just made them more violent. They ride around in military surplus vehicles like they’re going to be dodging mortar fire and regularly kill unarmed people because they “feared for their lives”. They’d need to be experiencing significant and sustained violence before it becomes anything but validating their worldview.
True but I’m taking about the kind of violence like the north Hollywood shootout or people going after them at home by often enough that it’s not ness worthy.