10,000 dogs a year are shot and killed by police on routine duty. That’s just what we can estimate based on what we know. Your dogs are not going to protect you from the actual threats we may face as the US continues to decline.
In fact, if you own dogs and care about them at all, it’s HIGHLY important that you understand if you let a cop inside your house they may just fire a round into your beloved canine family member’s head without warning or explanation and you will have ZERO recourse. They are awful people who want to kill. It’s not a meme.
By that logic, a gun won’t either. Many gun owners are shot by police. If you shoot back at an unlawful entrance, they just bring more. They don’t really care. Power disparity is too great already.
I agree we need electoral politics and we need community action, but tell me what you’re going to do if that fails.
Seriously, what do you do when it fails and the violence spreads, and they start kicking down doors. What international law-enforcement do you think exists out there? How sheltered and comfortable is your life that you think “that can’t happen here?” Answer me.
Because a lot of shit that people said will “never happen here” is fucking happening here RIGHT NOW.
The fight was lost in the Supreme Court. 42 USC §1988 was explicitly set up to grant civil rights attorneys fees if they won their claim (and it costs a lot to prosecute a civil rights claim). But lawyers and firms would accept winnable civil rights cases on the basis that they would eventually get paid. That came to a halt in 2001 in 532 US 598, decided on May 2001, which talked about the rights of the “prevailing party” to be paid. In function, it killed civil rights litigation.
The police shooting people because they have or might have guns is a clear violation of the 2nd amendment right to carry. (ACLU never got involved because they don’t take 2nd amendment cases).
“Winning” requires multiple fronts, from civil resistance and disobedience, to openly carrying protests, to voting, to boycotts, to lawsuits, to just simply speaking out when something isn’t right. And proposing alternative solutions.
10,000 dogs a year are shot and killed by police on routine duty. That’s just what we can estimate based on what we know. Your dogs are not going to protect you from the actual threats we may face as the US continues to decline.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718520300440#%3A~%3Atext=Such+lack+of+transparency+has+led+to%2CMatthews%2C+a+Justice+Department+official+(Griffith%2C+2014).
https://trace.tennessee.edu/entities/publication/d303db7c-80cc-4a6a-83c5-fd19be3d33ac
In fact, if you own dogs and care about them at all, it’s HIGHLY important that you understand if you let a cop inside your house they may just fire a round into your beloved canine family member’s head without warning or explanation and you will have ZERO recourse. They are awful people who want to kill. It’s not a meme.
By that logic, a gun won’t either. Many gun owners are shot by police. If you shoot back at an unlawful entrance, they just bring more. They don’t really care. Power disparity is too great already.
This fight is won elsewhere.
Yah? Where?
I agree we need electoral politics and we need community action, but tell me what you’re going to do if that fails.
Seriously, what do you do when it fails and the violence spreads, and they start kicking down doors. What international law-enforcement do you think exists out there? How sheltered and comfortable is your life that you think “that can’t happen here?” Answer me.
Because a lot of shit that people said will “never happen here” is fucking happening here RIGHT NOW.
The fight was lost in the Supreme Court. 42 USC §1988 was explicitly set up to grant civil rights attorneys fees if they won their claim (and it costs a lot to prosecute a civil rights claim). But lawyers and firms would accept winnable civil rights cases on the basis that they would eventually get paid. That came to a halt in 2001 in 532 US 598, decided on May 2001, which talked about the rights of the “prevailing party” to be paid. In function, it killed civil rights litigation.
Buckhannon Board & Care Home, Inc. v. West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources https://www.oyez.org/cases/2000/99-1848
The police shooting people because they have or might have guns is a clear violation of the 2nd amendment right to carry. (ACLU never got involved because they don’t take 2nd amendment cases).
But here’s the thing. Cops don’t arrest right wing armed protesters. Why do you think that is? Cops are willing to shoot unarmed protesters in wheelchairs, but fail to move on a fat out of shape protestor with an AR-15. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/25/protests-houston-police-shoot-unarmed-man-wheelchair
“Winning” requires multiple fronts, from civil resistance and disobedience, to openly carrying protests, to voting, to boycotts, to lawsuits, to just simply speaking out when something isn’t right. And proposing alternative solutions.
Oh I know exactly why that is.