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Posted on 01/12/2026 3:25:06 AM PST by Libloather
There seems to be a bit of confusion in our society of late about what "civil disobedience" is and what it isn’t. Last week, this very confusion got 37-year-old Renee Good killed.
Political protest in the form of civil disobedience has a long and very proud tradition, from Mahatma Gandhi nonviolently defying the British in India, to our own Martin Luther King Jr. penning his eloquence from a Birmingham jail cell.
There is a stoic dignity to this practice, which in and of itself grants the words of its practitioners a gravity and profound humility.
What we are seeing across the country as organized gangs of wine moms use Antifa tactics to harass and impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is not civil disobedience. It isn't even protest. It's just crime.
The word "civil" in civil disobedience refers to the fact that the protester is allowing themselves to be arrested in order to emphasize just how important their cause is to them. It is also generally done in a context that threatens minimal harm to police and bystanders.
Today, across the country, but especially in bastions of democratic socialism like Minneapolis, Portland and Seattle, we see something entirely different: bands of people following, harassing, doxxing and sometimes engaging in direct assault against ICE agents.
What these ICE Watch groups across the country, of which Good was reportedly a trained member, do is entirely different. They are trying to impede federal agents from carrying out democratically enacted laws, not sending a message, and importantly, they are trying to evade capture.
Sorry, that is crime, not protest.
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apparent approval of Gold’s ramming as evidenced by pols’ statements/national protests apparently has normalized such beavior, to wit the L A ramming of anti-mullah demonstration yesterday with people injured. MN lawbreakers must be jailed and publicly punished to keep this lawlessness from being regularized.
It’s not just “crime” it is treasonous insurrection!
It’s not just “crime” it is treasonous insurrection!
Also see my tagline.
“Protesters”?
I don’t-a think this word means what they think it means.
When they go from “peacefully protesting” to advocating “direct action,” aka “VIOLENCE” against ICE and ICE supporters as so many of them have done explicitlky, by definition they are no longer “activists,” or “protesters,” but terrorists.
But don’t take-a my word for it, look it up. The functional definition of “terrorism.”
Lock em up is also part of the issue...the government doesn’t and has allowed this to happen. Nothing wrong with a peaceful protest but mob rule should be dealt with swiftly and harshly. When theresriots and looting it should be shoot to kill and it will stop immediately. When they impede or obstruct law enforcement you quelch it with mass arrest, water cannons etc.
block roadways is also a crime and should have been delt with much stronger and sooner.
lets see more arrests for interfering
Amen crush the Sendero Luminoso Luciferian Maoists
Cellphone video released in deadly Minneapolis ICE agent shooting
“Martin Luther King Jr. penning his eloquence from a Birmingham jail cell”
Wasn’t it plagiarism he practiced or am I confusing him with Joe Biden?
He was penning someone else's eloquence.
Those aren’t chucks. They’re incels scrounging around for a date. They will be sorely disappointed if they succeed.
EC
Vehicular assault is a crime too, in fact, a felony.
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