@Powerfromspace1 This is how low level #cops, #sheriffs, #troopers, #ice and all manner of #lawenforcement feel empowered to do as they feel. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if some #ice gopher did this as retaliation for being rejected by a #Canadian he hit on.
@msfreepress This is when local #cops, #sheriffs and #state popo are unleashed to run roughshod over people they don't like. If you ever mouthed off to a cop, you're SOL. If you ever filed a complaint, you're up the creek. If you ever contested a ticket. kiss your ass goodbye bc they now own your ass.
@rbreich Yo Bob, take your optimism and stick it where the sun don't shine. We're in throes of a civil war, yammering from atop your high horse in academia isn't going to stop #MAGAmoron from ordering #troops, #sheriffs and #cops to fire at will into crowds of protestors. I hope you know how to protect yourself when they show up to march you off to a concentration camp.
"Missouri GOP’s Effort to Take Over St. Louis Police Hearkens Back to Civil War"
Local and state #cops and #sheriffs will form the backbone of #MAGAmoron and #gqp #gestapo. They're generally goose-stepping masochists and power hungry imbeciles.
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https://www.europesays.com/1818223/ NC moves to remove police from mental health care #america #CAHOOTS #DukeLawWilsonCenterForScienceAndJustice #Entertainment #health #HEARTProgram #InvoluntaryCommitment #NCDepartmentOfHealthAndHumanServices #NCDHHSSec.KodyKinsley #NCGeneralAssembly #NorthCarolinaSheriffs’Association #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #SeekingHelp #sheriffs #sports #TreatmentAdvocacyCenter #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA
"Another federal program, called 287(g), grants sheriff deputies permission to act as immigration agents themselves, questioning arrestees about their nationality and transferring them to ICE’s custody."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-sheriffs-might-power-trumps-deportation-machine
“The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens #Democracy.”, is a new book taking a look at the roles of #Sheriffs , and the free ranging #RWNJ political stance being mobilized on the far right fringes. where the impunity with which sheriffs #police communities is potentially a very dangerous powder keg.
Author Jessica Pishko discussed with daily #Lawfare #podcast the roots of the #constitutional sheriffs movement, breaks down several myths and realities of the office, and explains the immense appeal that sheriffs hold in the far-right western world view.
Listening to Refuse Fascism (Constitutional Sheriffs, Militias, and Other Local Fascist Initiatives): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/refuse-fascism/episodes/Constitutional-Sheriffs--Militias--and-Other-Local-Fascist-Initiatives-e2imivh
Sam talks with three experts on widespread local fascist organizing around the country including the so-called Constitutional Sheriffs movement, the embrace by local governments of right wing militias and fascist efforts to modify the constitution itself. Devin Burghart (@dburghart) is the Executive Director, at the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights. Carolyn Gallaher is a professor at American University. She has written about rightwing paramilitaries in the U.S. and Northern Ireland. Read more from her here. Follow her on Twitter at @C_OGallachoir or at Bluesky at @cgallaher.bsky.social. CJ Spencer (@ByCJSpencer) wrote How the Far Right-Wing Plans to Obliterate More of Our Constitutional Rights. Read more from them here. Upcoming Event!Join us for our next Patron-only Virtual Event:Sunday April 28, 5PM ET Book Club Chat discussing Prophet Song by Paul Lynch Register for Zoom at http://patreon.com/RefuseFascism (see pinned post)*Not a patron? Fix that here: http://patreon.com/RefuseFascism Find out more about Refuse Fascism and get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky. Plus, Sam is on TikTok, check out @samgoldmanrf. You can also send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Record a voice message for the show here. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org · http://patreon.com/RefuseFascism · Venmo: Refuse-Fascism · Cashapp: $RefuseFascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown Mentioned in this Episode: Inside the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University by Lara-Nour Walton (The Nation) January 6 insurrectionists had a great day in the Supreme Court today (Most of the justices seem to want to make it harder to prosecute January 6 rioters.) by Ian Millhiser (Vox) The Supreme Court’s confusing new anti-trans decision, explained (The Court mostly reinstates Idaho’s ban on transgender health care for children.) by Ian Millhiser (Vox) The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states (It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.) by Ian Millhiser (Vox) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/refuse-fascism/message
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/refuse-fascism/episodes/Constitutional-Sheriffs--Militias--and-Other-Local-Fascist-Initiatives-e2imivh #refusefascism #maga #ConstitutionalSheriffs #militias #Sheriffs #rightwingExtremists #antifascism #StopFascism
In 1845, millions of Irish fled the famine, the majority coming to the U.S.
Nearly half of all U.S. immigrants in the 1840s were Irish.
The racism against them was phenomenal.
There were the No Irish Need Apply signs outside businesses looking for workers.
Anti-Irish nativist gangs, like New York’s Bowery Boys, and Baltimore’s Plug Uglies carried out pogroms in Irish communities.
These gangs often affiliated with political parties like the No Nothings and the Republicans.
Irish gangs, affiliated with the Democratic Party, began to form for self-defense.
At least twenty people died in anti-Irish riots in Philadelphia in 1844.
Irish Origins of the Myth of the Molly Maguires
According to legend, there was a widow living in Ireland in the 1840s named Molly Maguire,
who hated the landlords who were abusing the poor tenant farmers.
She supposedly carried a pistol strapped to each thigh.
She, or her followers, would beat or murder the tyrannical landlords, their agents, and bailiffs, whenever they tried to evict a tenant.
No one knows if she ever really existed, but other tenant farmer activists were said to cry out,
“Take that from a son of Molly Maguire!” when protesting against unscrupulous landlords.
@MikeDunnAuthor
#Pinkerton #Detective #Agency #Reading #Railroad #Black #Thursday #Molly #Maguires #union #activists #sheriffs #school #board
However, there is no evidence that an organization called the Molly Maguires ever existed in the U.S.
James McParland, an #agent #provocateur who worked for the Pinkerton Detective Agency,
and who provided the plans and weapons the men purportedly used in their crimes,
provided the only serious evidence against the men.
The entire legal process was a travesty:
a private corporation (the #Reading #Railroad ) set up the investigation through a private police force (the #Pinkerton #Detective #Agency ) and prosecuted them with their own company attorneys.
No jurors were Irish, though several were recent German immigrants who had trouble understanding the proceedings.
Nearly everything people “know” today about the Molly Maguires comes from Allan Pinkerton’s own work of #fiction,
"The Molly Maguires and the Detectives" (1877),
which he marketed as nonfiction.
His heavily biased book was the primary source for dozens of academic works, and for several pieces of fiction, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s final Sherlock Holmes novel, "Valley of Fear" (1915), and the 1970 Sean Connery film, "Molly Maguires."
The Day of the Rope
The Molly Maguires became international news on June 21, 1877, when the authorities
hanged ten Irish miners in a single day in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
Known as #Black #Thursday, or Day of the Rope, it was the second largest mass execution in U.S. history.
(The largest was in 1862, when the U.S. government executed 38 Dakota warriors).
The authorities accused the Irishmen of being terrorists from a secret organization called the #Molly #Maguires.
They executed ten more over the next two years, and imprisoned another twenty suspected Molly Maguires.
Most of the convicted men were #union #activists.
Some even held public office, as #sheriffs and #school #board members.
https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/13/the-myth-of-the-molly-maguires/
In at least 14 states, "Bonds for the Win" activists attempted to serve #sham #paperwork to school districts, in several cases causing commotions that required police intervention.
And the number of people joining their cause is quickly growing as misinformation about the strategy’s effectiveness circulates.
On the chat app Telegram, where the activists organize, Bonds for the Win’s main channel grew from 700 subscribers to nearly 20,000 in the past month. Its members focus on #schools, but they have also served paperwork to a handful of #county #commissioners and discussed plans to go after other local officials, #judges and #sheriffs with similar claims.
Bonds for the Win is using these battles as a way of drawing in followers, demonstrating how quickly a faulty fringe tactic can generate momentum as frustrated parents join forces with conspiracy theorists.
#Miki #Klann, a QAnon adherent in Scottsdale, Arizona, who has said she believes AIDS is a hoax and that the Earth is flat, founded Bonds for the Win in December.
“We want the people to understand their 'sovereignty'.” Klann said in a recent video
The group’s strategy of intimidating government bodies with paperwork has been used in the past by #sovereign #citizens
-- loosely affiliated #rightwing #anarchists who believe federal and local governments are operating illegitimately.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/parents-mask-schools-surety-bonds-rcna16872
#LASheriffsDept continues making #headlines on "behalf of 10 million residents" by taking infants from mothers and punching them for being car passengers, or throwing female #TaxPayers to the ground and #pepperspraying them for watching rogue #sheriffs perform their #taxpayer funded #LawEnforcement"duties" in public.
https://abc7.com/los-angeles-county-deputy-punches-woman-bodycam-video-released-use-of-force-case/13495914/ #CopWatch #LosAngeles
