I recently learned there are only like 13,500 ICE agents right now.
There are way, way, way more people than that who hate ICE and, dare I say, at least that many people OK with taking them out…so…yeah, we totally could if we organized.
Every time the people get angry enough for meaningful change, the system releases the tension through a mixture of temporary concessions and state-violence: carrot and stick. They never let us push our frustration to its logical conclusion.
They’re easy to replace at first. Once it becomes widely recognized that joining ICE=getting lynched by an angry mob in the streets, people will be much less likely to join.
I recently learned there are only like 13,500 ICE agents right now.
There are way, way, way more people than that who hate ICE and, dare I say, at least that many people OK with taking them out…so…yeah, we totally could if we organized.
But we aren’t organizing.
Because every cop exists to disrupt organizing. And it’s scary.
Every time the people get angry enough for meaningful change, the system releases the tension through a mixture of temporary concessions and state-violence: carrot and stick. They never let us push our frustration to its logical conclusion.
Organizing on social media is virtually impossible. Also individual ICE agents are easy to replace. They are not the billionaires calling the shots.
They’re easy to replace at first. Once it becomes widely recognized that joining ICE=getting lynched by an angry mob in the streets, people will be much less likely to join.
No the politicians will simply send in the military.
The politicians and billionaires should be afraid to send ICE agents after people.