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It's in their right to form a gated community if they want. And valid warrants are required to enter.
Gonna start with: Fuck ICE.
As to your comment about a gated community, there some logistics around it such as the loss of city/county maintenance of roads and usually trash service. Yes they are well within their rights but it does create a lot of additional headaches.
Trash service is private, you're either paying your community to pay the company or paying the company directly. Not a big difference.
Correct but it’s still logistics exactly the same as the road. You’re either paying the community to fix your roads (via taxes) or paying the company directly. You also lose a lot of the economies of scale and negotiating power as you’re now a smaller entity.
Its a public street paid for by tax dollars. Not how that works.
Well, actually, it depends on the road. If it's a municipal, county, or state road, then the local municipal, county, or state, respectively, can decide to close the street down entirely if they want.
So it kind of is how it works. Unless it's an interstate.
Not exactly a gated community, but they're generally allowed to do these kinds of things.
Then take it up with your municipal, county, or state if you want to change public roads. What these people are doing is akin to vigilantism.
Ok, then let the municipality, county, or state, stop them. If they don't, that's their prerogative.
Residents who have a problem with that are welcome to lobby the respective governing body.
If only.
so they paid for it. they get to say if white supremacists paramilitary gangs led my pedophiles get to enter
We all paid for it. I can't block the freeway on the grounds that my tax dollars paid for it. And this isn't targeted restrictions, its a blanket restriction. If this only blocked ICE movements I would be less concerned, but this affects everyone using the roads. That's the same kind of builshit tactics used to push indiscriminate surveillance to "protect the children."
it only stops ICE, but I guess, you are so important, it would be rude to let you be a minute late, se we better let white supremacists gangs kidnap your neighbors so we don't inconvenience you.
do us all a favor and choke on that boot already.
It doesn't only stop ICE. Elsewhere in this thread someone was trying to tell me that ICE agents are indistinguishable from normal citizens (bullshit, by the way) so by that logic, they would need to stop everyone in order to determine if they're ICE or not. Its not about my time, its about the violation of personal liberties. This has "papers please" vibes written all over it. That shits not okay when the government does it, and its not okay when private citizens do it. You on the other hand have no moral consistency. You rebuke oppression when its on the other side, and let it slide when its on your side.
good to know your personal liverty to not be delayed by a minute is more important than the personal liverty of your neighbors to not be kidnapped by white supremacists.
do us all a favor and choke to death on that boot.
So then they really do own it then?
No, we collectively own it. I dont get to decide what to do with it any more rhsn you do, any more then they do.
so why do white supremacists from outside of town who didn't pay for it get to decide how it's used instead of the citizens who did? the roads of minneapolis are primarily funded by the very citizens setting up these checkpoints. by your own logic, this is EXACTLY what should be done, but then you swerve at the last minute and say it shouldn't
I'm sorry, I'm not aware of ICE putting up road blocks. Would you kind sharing an example so I can stay better informed? Regardless, its not okay for them to do it either. We have every duty to prevent them from continuing to do that, but just because they're getting away with violating peoples liberties, that doesn't give you free reign to do it too.
Also, not sure how my logic dictates people should be doing this. Would you mind elaborating further on that bit?
oh, so roadblocks set by ice protestors are wrong so long as ice isn't doing them, and the protestors, who paid for the roads, should just allow ice to come into their communities and kill and kidnap their neighbors?
That's not even remotely what I said. Its bad when law enforcement does this, and its bad when private citizens do it to. I've repeatedly said that throughout this thread. There are ways of combatting ICE that don't double down on the violation of people's liberties. If you're going to double down on bad-faith arguments though, then we're done here.
Relax, they are just keeping the streets safe.
Indeed. Completely understandable to establish borders to keep certain people out who might mean you harm or who might disrupt the peace of your community. Unfortunately you also need infrastructure to enforce those borders, such as documentation and an enforcement agency. But it's worth it in order to keep your community safe.
I mean, keeping ice out because they genuinely are a threat is cool. But some people would use this logic to keep out black people, because they falsely believe black people will disrupt the peace or mean them harm.
Don't tell’em about zip codes!
They might learn this is the exact case already!
Yes exactly, which is why rules like this should never pass.
As long as that does not extend beyond individual neighborhoods or towns, yes. Once states begin doing it, the problems rise up.