Posted on 01/31/2026 1:16:09 PM PST by metmom
With some sympathy, I have been contemplating the sorry lot of anti-ICE activists in a non-sanctuary state with a government rated as the least corrupt in the nation. Braving near Minnesota temperatures, a half dozen Mesozoic creatures stood out in the latte town of Exeter Sunday morning, holding “ICE = GESTAPO” and “TRUMP = HITLER” signs. Upon the recommendation of a friend in law enforcement, I did not go join them, without identification and carrying a loaded 9 millimeter with extra magazines.
In Minnesota, youthful members of Antifa and Democratic Socialists of America man the barricades, but here in New Hampshire, the activism seems left to some Pete Seeger–inspired relics whose most subversive membership is in the Episcopal Church.
They struggle to keep their banjos in tune. The Wobblies are not their union, but what they suffer from when they get out of bed. Their machines that fight fascists are not guitars, but walking sticks, waved forcefully at federal authorities.
It appears that a state that does not have industrial-scale corruption or sanctuary jurisdictions is conducive to peaceful and efficient implementation of the immigration laws that were the product of erstwhile bipartisan consensus. Hence, here the protests are left to retrograde elements, for whom any cause of the moment is a source of nostalgia, romance, and the bonhomie of the old left.
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“Wobblies”
I resemble that remark.
In a recent rant, Governor Walz stumbled over a word and it nearly came out as ‘gazpacho’ before he stopped himself and said ‘gestapo.’
First photo was of a large pile of steamy, wet garbage at a landfill.
Since that was removed, the thread now just has text.
(my satire)
The “Wobblies” (IWW)....Outright socialist old fashioned union that somehow survived after the old days.
When Border’s Books and Music was in trouble from workers trying to unionize, and were on strike, the IWW arrived at the headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
From the IWW website....
The booksellers at Borders Bookshop in Center City Philadelphia waged a struggle in the spring of 1996 for union representation with the Industrial Workers of the World. After the company hired a notorious union-busting law firm and browbeat its employees for a month (sometimes in ways that blatantly violated Federal labor laws) the union was narrowly defeated (20-25) in a vote on March 27, 1996.
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In a nation-wide, grassroots effort to compel Borders Inc. to give up its union-busting practices, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) has called for a boycott of all Borders, Waldenbooks and Planet Records (all owned in common) stores.
https://archive.iww.org/history/campaigns/borders/
They are probably the exact same hippies that stood out there by the Gazebo with their “Free Palestine” signs for the last couple years.
They may have been the anti-ICE crowd I saw in Lebanon last week.
The average age looked to be about 65.
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