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ICE raided the Westlake Home Depot in Los Angeles this morning. LATU organizers snapped some photos from the raid—one sticks out: ICE Border Patrol agents rolling up in a Penske rental truck.

Wonder where they got the idea😬

Trying to avoid detection? Is this policy now? Are they now doing roving gangs in this?

https://bsky.app/profile/melbuer.bsky.social/post/3lvqii5yhkc2x

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  • it’s really dangerous to be in there like that. like what if the latch got wrapped up or seized up with a foreign object like fence wire and somebody spiked the external fuel tank and lit it. or just fired blindly into the truck and let darkness and panic do the rest.

    there’s a pretty good reason professional militaries use armored transport. same with those paramilitary groups of law enforcement like SWAT and HRT using armored vehicles. even insurrectionary groups will modify civilian vehicles to make them more durable to purpose.

    meat heads do shit like this because, despite their endless bluster, they still subconsciously operate under the assumption that they aren’t really fighting an actual hot war with threats.

    you put a bunch of guys in helmets, masks, armor, and hand them automatic weapons to ambush unarmed civilians from civilian vehicles and maybe it’s a sign that you are escalating the occupation to a level of intensity you’re not tactically prepared for.

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      It would be really, really sad if the rifle in OP’s pic was to accidently shoot someone else in the truck in the foot, like that guy in the middle.

      And by sad, I mean “fucking hilarious please God make it happen.”

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    This thread includes video taken from inside the truck. They are so fucking awful and [redacted]

    This morning, Border Patrol agents hiding in Penske rental trucks raided a Home Depot in Los Angeles to grab day laborers standing around, which the Border Patrol’s current CA lead Gregory Bovino called “Operation Trojan Horse.” Raises very serious questions about violation of the court order.

    https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lvqjhkdzek2u

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    I hope every American understands that if we do not Nuremberg 2.0 these motherfuckers it’s over, right? At that point it will be as clear to them as it was to John Brown. Or it should be, and it is a personal failure on their part if they do not see it.

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      A couple months ago I called a particular Bluesky poster slash lawyer a shitlib. I poked fun at his post where he said Trump was an imbecile and what he was doing was illegal and anti-constitutional. Yeah, we know. But what will the democrats do about it?

      His fan base made fun of me. And he quoted my post which he must of thought would embarrass me but it made me laugh. I didn’t bother to reply to the people making fun of me. My point was the OP is a type of lib I cannot stand. I’d seen him make post after post after post about the racist history of the US and fundamental and unjust problems in the constitution. In 178x blah blah blah and in 183x blah blah the fuck blah.

      I’d never seen him say a single word about what the democrats and everyday Americans must do to stop the current racist situation and racist administration. I’m certain that he’ll join the libs next year in their highly irritating election season custom. They’ll make a cicada-like “blue no matter who” drone of Vote! Vote! Vote! Vooooooote! Vote! Vote! Vote! Vooooooote!

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        Now is always too soon. I don’t know if these people understand history is a living thing and they are a part of it. Not truly. Their actions say otherwise. To use a clumsy metaphor it’s like they think reality is a boat and the past and the present is the time the course gets changed. The present you just helplessly hold on and “ride it out.”

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        Nuremberg was borderline worthless because the dipshits running it were obsessed with giving the Nazis as much aid as possible so that it was “fair”. We need show trials.

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      I don’t know where the statement is, but they specifically said people pardoned from J6 were still eligible to serve for DHS and ICE. I haven’t seen direct evidence but I’d be completely unsurprised if pre-organized paramilitary groups became ICE squads.