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Gabe Ortíz Apr 29, 2024

Stephen Miller planning the Great Purge: Recruit ‘red state’ deportation army of law enforcement and National Guard to round up immigrants, rip them from their homes and community, and forcibly deport them.

https://americasvoice.org/blog/stephen-miller-planning-the-great-purge-recruit-red-state-deportation-army-to-round-up-immigrants-rip-them-from-their-homes-and-community-and-forcibly-deport-them/

Stephen Miller Planning the Great Purge: Recruit ‘Red State’ Deportation Army To Round Up Immigrants, Rip Them from Their Homes and Community, and Forcibly Deport Them - America's Voice

Fringe sheriffs who believe they’re totally unaccountable to any state or federal authority hosted a right-wing conference in Las Vegas last week, where they made explicit calls for vigilante gangs “to patrol polling stations and stop the ‘expected flood’ of ‘illegal’ immigrant voters,” WIRED reports. Of course, this is a non-existent issue: non-citizen voting is already… Continue »

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mozz Apr 29, 2024

@tusk81 It is not designed for immigrants. Stephen Miller may have a strong motivation to punish immigrants specifically, for whatever fucked-up reason, but the actual deeper reason for a private army like this is chiefly for domestic politics use, once they've broken the seal by extralegally going after immigrants.

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TheDarcBird Apr 29, 2024

@mozz @tusk81
Can somebody say Schutzstaffel?

https://www.britannica.com/topic/SS

SS | History, Meaning, & Facts | Britannica

SS (abbreviation of Schutzstaffel [German: ‘Protective Echelon’]), the black-uniformed elite corps and self-described ‘political soldiers’ of the Nazi Party. Founded by Adolf Hitler in 1925 as a small personal bodyguard, the SS grew with the success of the Nazi movement and became virtually a state within a state.

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mozz

@TheDarcBird @tusk81

Very literally, yes. A private police force like the Sturmabteilung or the Florida State Guard is one of the very last bricks to fall into place during a fascist takeover before the fireworks get started for real -- once they can challenge the state's monopoly on violence unconstrained by any oversight of court or legislature, there's very little to stop anyone who wants to from simply killing or imprisoning their opponents. We're almost there right now; the little inklings of people of the "right political persuasion" not being punished by the courts, or intermingling of people in civilian law enforcement with people in Patriot Front etc, are little sparks of it getting started for real.

I was talking with someone yesterday about tearing down the system (presumably meaning police, political parties, big corporations). My guy, I will never try to tell you not to work for change because things definitely need help, but a lot of that system is protecting you too. The things that can come in after the system falls away will make getting arrested at a protest seem like sunshine and sweet lemonade.