a lot of talk about death squads, you know, the shit like Operation Gladio, the contras, etc lately in my circles
Here’s my take:
These types of death squads simply won’t be needed here in the States. The feds don’t need to train groups of people to do that, because there are already a large number of people who are absolutely primed to murder. The idea that you can murder a protestor with your car is already considered acceptable, in fact there’s laws in several states that allow it.
So we’re seeing more and more of these large mobilized protests, blocking highways, etc. We need to ask this deathly serious question: “Are we prepared for the eventual right winger who decides to be a hero (in their mind) and let everyone go to work? Who decides to grab the strap and start spraying us?”
I would say no, we absolutely aren’t prepared for that. In fact I would say that most people even on the “left” don’t see this as an actual threat. I think there is a certain level of complacency that we will need to rapidly drop. I’m just as guilty of it as anyone.
Once this event happens, and it’s more of an eventuality than an IF, the act will become normalized within the discourse. It benefits the state for that to happen, and it is exactly what happened after Charlottesville. We saw these laws passed after the dude with the challenger rammed into those protestors at full speed.
Our enemy has deemed the murder of 75 children a day an acceptable thing in order to preserve neoliberal capitalism. We’ve seen right wingers do multiple mass shootings ie Buffalo.
What do you think will happen when the same is done to an interstate blockade? The right will support it, either subtly or explicitly, the liberals will be calling for gun control while supporting the status quo.
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