Mia is about the only person I miss from my Twitter days. Luckily I hear them about weekly on It Could Happen Here
Robert Evans is a gem of a person.
Yeah, I started on season one. That is how I was introduced to Robert. But this news program thing has made me just love all the other hosts as well. They are all great. James for his border work. Garrison for their cop city coverage. I knew Mia from their Twitter, but their weird Econ stuff and just labor podcasting is great. And Sharrin for her Gaza stuff and food podcasts.
I’ve only listened to Behind the Bastards and read his excellent book “A Brief History of Vice”!
If you like sci fi his book After the Revolution is really fun. He has it on audio for free. Just search for it on a podcast app. Also, I can’t recommend the first season of it could happen here and The Women’s war enough.
Mia is the ICE abolitionist, correct?
Correct. Mia Wong I believe is her full name. She has a unique view of lots of things that I find fascinating.
Judging by the black flag and podcast, I presume she’s an anarchist?
Yes. I think most of the host are some flavor of anarchist.
The main host is definitely at the very least sympathetic
I, too, am an ICE abolitionist. In fact, I would have all ICE officers and PSC employees who worked with ICE get reviewed by international tribunal for crimes against humanity.
And I’d advocate for nazi-hunters to go after ICE.
To be fair, there are other parts of DHS who should be considered for similar review.
I was trying to figure out who was Mia in the pic
It’s been well established sins 2014 and the Ferguson unrest (if not the 1992 Rodney King riots, or before that, say during the Civil Rights movement) that peaceful protest, even civil disobedience as a means to petition representatives for redress of grievances, is not respected. (And to make it clear, literal petitions in the form of letters, emails and phone calls, have zero effect on how elected or appointed officials vote or set policy. We’ve tracked and its a flat line. Demonstrations, marches and civil disobedience are the next step.)
Feel free to read opinions from the Federalist Society jurists in the US Supreme Court. All six of them are clearly unafraid or unaware of the proverbial Sword of Damocles. They speak openly without consideration of anyone who does not have direct power, even dismissing lives lost due to the consequences of natural or corporate policy.
Considering we’ve seen brutal police responses to university protests against IDF action in Gaza, there remains a marked difference in how right-wing demonstrations are regarded by law enforcement, versus left-wing demonstrations. Anyone who publicly expresses criticism of state action is met with force.
So the next step is obstruction and sabotage, since our judicial overlords will not consider the needs or rights of the public.
Obstruction and sabotage sounds p good to me at this point. Any advice on how to get involved?
Not exactly my field of expertise, but I can point you towards How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm. I’d point to certain law enforcement edifices as targets, specifically the surveillance technology that is routinely used to violate the fourth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and the incarceration and interrogation policies that violate the Eight amendment. More military minded lemmings might point you towards practical knowledge.
I don’t know if there are targets related to asset forfeiture, but attitudes within most state and federal departments is that asset forfeiture is a higher priority than actually investigating or preventing crime. Even DHS and NSA relay information about seizeable assets
The police state and security state have certainly crossed lines into Sicherheitsdienst territory, such as ICE’s policy to hunt and detain all known undocumented immigrants for deportation regardless of their criminal status. (Official policy by the White House and DHS department administration is just to investigate those who are also felons, but ICE goes after them all, often deporting them right into the hands of human traffickers).
Of course you’ll want to take steps to not be tracked or identified, which means not using any electronics during action, nor communicating about making plans where it can be traced and decoded. Also not my area of expertise, but there’s some intersection with the linux community and home-brew end-to-end encrypted communications with steganographic features.
These are much older, but may still be worth reading:
- William Powell’s “The Anarchists Cookbook”
- The CIA’s “Simple Sabotage Field Manual”
Ultimately, reading material is useful but does not by itself lead to action. Some organisation is required for that, and I don’t have a practical direction to point you in for that. Though you could always strike out on your own, of course.
If you do decide to organise for the purpose of sabotage action, I’d caution against doing so online. One never knows who might be listening
Oh, we know who’s listening. The NSA is definitely listening. Depending on your device, it’s quite possible that Apple or Microsoft or Google is also listening.
Of course there are steps that one can take to mitigate these risks. The first would be to not post about one’s illegal plans to social media.
Not exactly my field of expertise, but I can point you towards How to Blow Up a Pipeline
I’m sorry, just wanna say that made me lol. I understand your comment is serious and I agree with it, but the intro was too funny
As long as the obstruction and sabotage is directed at the supreme court specifically and not randos trying to go about their day. Political pressure won’t affect the supreme court because they’re elected for life. So aggravating normal people won’t make them change their ways.
Look, asking for instructions on how to build a pipe bomb isn’t welcome here, but just so you can recognize and avoid the danger of seeing somebody explain how to build a pipe bomb, I’ll give you the instructions just this once…
Is that the same Mia Wong from Cool Zone Media podcasts?
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Liberals “Why didn’t you all do something about this?”
Leftists “We did and you got upset that we inconvenienced your life. You called us terrorists.”
Liberals “…Why didn’t you all do something about this?”
Wow, so there was reporting in Mother Jones (the editor-in-chief is being called out here) calling people who protested against SCOTUS “terrorists”? Can someone link to that, because I’m finding that hard to believe.
Or is this one of those “every journalist is the same” arguments where we blame progressives for what Fox News says?
People love to say “nobody thought” or “nobody acted” when in reality they did, but the speaker ignored it and doesn’t want to feel responsible now.
So many layers of insulation from one another. The degrees of alienation are staggering.
