I think this event holds high relevance in how opposition to the Trump whitehouse is starting to be actively oppressed by law enforcement.
It may seem alarmist but for those of us that was alive and aware at the time, this is looking shockingly similar to how the putinist regime started down its first steps of shutting down oppositional voices.
Technically letting the protestor speak to media, technically letting the journalist document it, but immediately after the interaction taking the activist into custody and making their lives as hard as possible without it being too overt or blatant as to induce as much of a chilling effect on oppositional voices as possible.
I genuinely believe america at large is sleepwalking into something truly dangerous here, and I believe much of this community is turning a blind eye to it, or just not bothering to focus on it in this instance, because of a flux of soft approval to neutrality regarding the venezuela strikes, and a general contempt towards activists because of their general association with “more-left-than-me”, even when their free speech is being actively silenced.
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What the hell is the news man. 3 sentences about the subject and then just general news about Venezuela. I guess for people who haven’t kept up but I was hoping to hear more about the arrest! The cops said the protestor they arrested was disobeying orders and obstructing traffic. Were they? Do you know? Did a citizen just get arrested for publicly criticizing the foreign policy ventures of the President of the United States? Even if their opinion was dumb I want to know how alarming this should be!
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I think this event holds high relevance in how opposition to the Trump whitehouse is starting to be actively oppressed by law enforcement.
It may seem alarmist but for those of us that was alive and aware at the time, this is looking shockingly similar to how the putinist regime started down its first steps of shutting down oppositional voices.
Technically letting the protestor speak to media, technically letting the journalist document it, but immediately after the interaction taking the activist into custody and making their lives as hard as possible without it being too overt or blatant as to induce as much of a chilling effect on oppositional voices as possible.
I genuinely believe america at large is sleepwalking into something truly dangerous here, and I believe much of this community is turning a blind eye to it, or just not bothering to focus on it in this instance, because of a flux of soft approval to neutrality regarding the venezuela strikes, and a general contempt towards activists because of their general association with “more-left-than-me”, even when their free speech is being actively silenced.
What the hell is the news man. 3 sentences about the subject and then just general news about Venezuela. I guess for people who haven’t kept up but I was hoping to hear more about the arrest! The cops said the protestor they arrested was disobeying orders and obstructing traffic. Were they? Do you know? Did a citizen just get arrested for publicly criticizing the foreign policy ventures of the President of the United States? Even if their opinion was dumb I want to know how alarming this should be!