Law Enforcement Admits to Placing GPS Trackers on Michigan Activist’s Car (itsgoingdown.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Five@beehaw.org to c/socialism@beehaw.org

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[-] Repossess6855@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And people have the audacity to say this could never happen in the US, only “authoritarian shit holes.” Well, it’s happening here. Same with that mom and pop newspaper in a small town in Mississippi? Missouri ? Police illegally raided and collected everything from them, because of local politics

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago

I think it was Kansas. Also don't forget about murdering an unarmed Cop City activist, and branding the others as literal terrorists (you know, the thing we said was going to happen after the patriot act was passed).

[-] Xelnoc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

They should know by now that the US is an authoritarian shithole

[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The USA is an authoritarian shit hole

[-] tal@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

looks to see who the people in question are

Autonomous movement against National Guard expansion in so called Michigan, defend the forest and decolonize the land

I mean, running around trying to block military infrastructure while saying that the state doesn't exist does sort of seem like the sort of thing that might attract attention.

[-] Five@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You must not be from a culture with an antifascist tradition of "First they came for the "

I'm concerned you would think this is an okay thing to post, and I'm worried about the people who subscribe to socialism and would upvote this kind of sentiment.

Furthermore, you're not even correct. The police's justification is the vehicle's attendance at an unaffiliated nonviolent climate movement protest, though I doubt that changes things in your mind.

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