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People get very mad for a few days and then roll over and accept the change to the enclosure. This is what they are betting on. They have had meetings about this.

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Bobby Seale was among a number of activists targetted by police and prosecution in order to disrupt their organizing work. Bobby Seale's treatment during trial was so horrific and blatantly unjust including being brought into the court room bound and gagged. Ultimately, Seale's case was severed from the others and the government declined to retry him, but the other 7 defendants (and Seale, tho this was overturned on appeal) were convicted by the Judge and Jury.

You might also be more familiar with the case of Leonard Peltier, since he's been in the news recently (while his sentence has not been commuted, I have it on authority from a friend involved in rez activism that his house arrest parameters allow him access to the reservation as a whole, not just to a physical building, which I am relieved but still infuriated by) who was functionally exiled from US sovereign territory by Biden earlier this year. Peltier's work with AIM made him and his colleagues targets of state aggression, and Peltier in particular was convicted of killing two federal agents during a shoot out.

Another example which may be valueable to some is Alice Paul, a Quaker activist and suffragette who was arrested and convicted of "obstructing traffic" during her organized resistance to the presidency during wartime. She refused to plead guilty or try and reduce her sentence by paying a fine, choosing instead to publicly disclose her political imprisonment from the courthouse, and organize hunger strikes and other acts of resistance in the jailhouse. She was repeatedly forcefed and harmed along with other prisoners, and the prosecution repeatedly tried to have her declared insane.

What you will notice in every case is that while the "criminal offense" is typically objective fact or complete fabrication, it is also ALWAYS stripped of its context. No one acknowledges that AIM members were also repeatedly murdered by federal agents over the course of their work, and Peltier and co were (reasonably, if not legally) acting in self-defense even IF they did what they were accused of. No one acknowledges the role the police had during the Chicago uprising in ensuring that people were hurt by kettling and beating marchers. No one acknowledges that Alice Paul was pursuing legal representation and legal adulthood in her own nation, and perhaps if she needed to obstruct traffic to do so that was understandable.

Do not let them erase this. Do not let them tell you he meant "my heart goes out for you."

This man is the grandson of a Canadian Nazi sympathizer who moved to South Africa BECAUSE he thought the apartheid was just the coolest.

He has a gaggle of kids specifically because he believes his genes are superior and need to be spread to improve humanity.

He has thrown his support behind the neonazi party in Germany and the far right party in the UK, not to mention how far he's wormed up the ass of the Republican party.

He threw two sieg heil salutes back to back at the inauguration of the president of the United States and is trying to scrub the evidence off the internet.

This was a website to help women learn about their reproductive rights in the US and to find health care.

This is absolutely disgusting so I’ll share in this post some resources in case you need them:

"As a result of President Trump's efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S"

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

This is Timothy McVeigh's perp walk.

If you're not old enough or not American enough to know that name, he blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City in the mid-90s. 169 people died in the initial blast, 19 of them children and three of them pregnant women. A rescue worker, not counted in the previous number, was killed by falling debris while evacuating those inside. Close to 700 people were injured, over 300 other buildings were severely damaged, and McVeigh explicitly agreed that what he'd done was terrorism, and stated it was in direct retaliation for the Waco, TX and Ruby Ridge standoffs. It is important to note that McVeigh freely admitted his guilt; what you are seeing is the perp walk of a man who happily admitted to committing the largest act of domestic terrorism in the history of the United States. He wasn't yet convicted, but he himself said he was guilty. Also of note is that over 100 of his victims worked for the federal government, including six Secret Service agents. This is important because it adds additional charges; in the eyes of the law, killing a federal agent is worse than killing some random member of Joe Q. Public.

This is Luigi Mangione's perp walk.

He is alleged to have killed one adult civilian man in a direct and targeted shooting that did not endanger anyone else or cause any property damage.

He has pleaded not guilty and under United States law is considered innocent until determined otherwise beyond a reasonable doubt in a fair trial held by a jury of his peers.

My opinion of a politician has never fallen so far, so fast, as it has with Kathy Hochul and the way she's just shitting herself to console a bunch of rich spoiled white men by throwing this young man under the bus. I need you to understand it does not matter if Luigi Mangione is guilty or not. This is a violation of multiple of his constitutional rights and it makes an absolute mockery out of what's left of our justice system. They could already have a signed confession and this would still be a violation of his constitutional rights.

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"School districts currently work with processing companies to offer cashless payment systems for families. But the companies can charge “processing fees” for each transaction. By law, students who are eligible for reduced price meals cannot be charged more than 30 cents for breakfast and 40 cents for lunch. With processing fees, however, families can end up paying 10 times that amount. Processing companies charge as much as $3.25 or 4% to 5% per transaction, according to a recent report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau."

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