Man handcuffed for allegedly giving out face shields to ‘suspected rioters’ at LA protest
Man handcuffed for allegedly giving out face shields to ‘suspected rioters’ at LA protest
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FBI agents handcuffed Alejandro Theodoro Orellana for allegedly “distributing face shields to suspected rioters” on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli posted.
For me, as a Ukrainian, it's surreal to read about this sort of news in the US.
I will note that Maidan protest against Yanukovich, the traitor and russian agent, accelerated in February 2014 (they had been going on since 2013) when Yanukovich tried to criminalise protest including specifically targeting covering your face.
At any rate, I have a feeling the situation in the US is entering a make or break phase. Good luck and courage to all sane Americans.
I think a corollary would be the Euromaidan/ Maidan protests of 2014. The US has been utterly corrupted by fascist ideology through distributed and targeted propaganda campaigns coming out of, guess who, Russia.
I think we're just getting started. Two things: one, that the US military police state has an extreme propensity for violence; and two the American people are slow to move, but once motivated to act, tend to also escalate with additional force. We're entering a protests get met with force, protests expand, become more extreme fly wheel. People on the right have been propagandized to for decades to prepare for "war" against their fellow citizens. And I mean that in no uncertain terms. This is a propaganda effort that's been in effect for decades.
I am not going make any predictions, but with the expansion of anti-regime protests, it seems that the situation is entering a new phase.
As the old saying goes, "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen."
While I agree that American security forces tend to have what I call "wannabe cowboy syndrome" (I have firsthand experiences when I was living and travelling to the US), I would also consider more base human reactions with respect to the attitude of the security services.
No one wants to be the one forced to do the dirty work and take the bulk of the risk. This is human nature. And at some point US security forces might question whether they want to take the heat for some oligarchs and other senior criminals.
I would also question the willingness of the US pro-oligarch plebs to actually engage in "war". There is a lot of crazies (especially with the militia LARP that's popular in the US), but the average pro-corruption American arguably has a very low tolerance for challenges. It's one thing to talk big and another thing to well actually put your life on the line (engaging in "war" also means there is a solid chance you get hit).
Just some thoughts from someone who has loved in both the US and Ukraine (this were I currently live too).