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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 points 56 minutes ago

It's horrifying to see so many incidents of kidnapping in courtrooms. I can't imagine a more blatant and clear example of subversion of the legal judicial process.

There would be no reason to remove them from a courtroom if you believed the court would come to the same conclusions they have. So the logical explanation is that they know that what they're doing illegal and that these people they're snatching haven't actually done anything wrong. It's shameful that we've allowed this to happen in our country and frankly, it's embarrassing that this is what the once great USA has stooped to.

[–] iamnotme@feddit.uk 17 points 7 hours ago

Definitely not the sort of thing a fascist would do. Lefty liberals are Larping

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 42 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Whatever happened to the Fourth Amendment? If they're not even bothering to uphold the Constitution in a courthouse you guys are well and truly fucked.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 hours ago

I’m pretty sure Homeland Security was created with the sole intent of subverting the constitution from it's inception.

[–] boughtmysoul@lemmy.world 43 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Is this exactly the kind of stuff 2A was supposed to have solved? What were the half a billion guns for?

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 22 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Guns are for the tyranny of green energy and gay marriage. This is what they voted for.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago)

Guns are for Drag Queen Story Hour and school schoolings

[–] boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world 45 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A good portion of the 2A fetishists in this country love jackbooted authoritarianism as long as it's aimed at the correct demographic.

They love the fantasy of being a plucky revolutionary, but in reality they are the ones helping the boot come down.

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

but we can change that any time. change the demographic by arming yourself and not being one of those people.

Way ahead of you there.

[–] lowleekun@ani.social 155 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe shoot kidnappers? Amazing how often your guns are used to kill school children and how rarely to fight injustice.

[–] Chochacho@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 29 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

A comment almost exactly like this got me permabanned from reddit. It's like they're telling us who's side they're on.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I mean.... they've been pretty clear about it for several years now?

[–] Chochacho@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

You cannot hypothesize about shooting a person attacking your child but you can have several subs dedicated to cheering for the death of conscripted Russian soldiers. The cool part is that it was a 3 day ban and when I appealed it, the ban became permanent.

[–] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm on my usual 2 day ban over some comment I can't remember, but probably something about how the current admin is a cancerous growth, and should be treated accordingly.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Shit posting is fun.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 52 points 15 hours ago (18 children)

Maybe shoot kidnappers?

Normal people cannot legally carry firearms into a Court House.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 271 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

What alarmed Nicholas Reppucci, head of the Charlottesville Office of the Public Defender, is that the enforcers called in to detain the two men in the city Tuesday morning were wearing plain clothes and did not display badges or arrest warrants.

Sounds an awful lot like kidnapping. So then the question becomes: why didn’t the court officers or local police arrest the so-called “ICE agents”? Up to and including firing on the assailants, if necessary? Because if you don’t show your badge, and you can’t back it up, you are not who you say you are. And that becomes broad-ass daylight kidnapping. And the actual uniformed officers did nothing (I know why they did nothing - the call is coming from inside the house).

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 12 minutes ago

did people not remember trump had the same nameless goons in his first admin when kindapping people.

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 166 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Let’s assume for a moment that the abducters here were federal agents.

How long before people get the bright idea that they can pull a stunt like this without being federal agents? Has that already happened?

[–] PorcupineSlippers@lemmy.ml 64 points 14 hours ago
[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 59 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Pretty sure some people showed up at San Francisco City Hall claiming to be with DOGE and demanding they be given access to personal files.

The staff refused and when they finally called the police the men claiming to be with DOGE fled the scene.

It was just some insane MAGA duds pretending to be with DOGE.

Especially with ICE going into schools and other previous safe zones now, think about how easy it would be for people to take advantage of these situations.

If a person is already willing to kidnap someone, do you really think they wouldn't easily be willing to disguise their own identity, command authority and prey on people's fears of retaliation for not complying?

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 113 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Wow you really can’t tell the difference between officials and gangs of criminals these days.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

The police have always just been the biggest gang

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