Rob K Chalmers Jr/Hehàka Tò Hokśida

Court filings in the Minnesota 15 prosecution describe an extensive surveillance operation against anti-ICE organizing including undercover infiltration of anti-ICE groups, access to activists' Signal chats, drone surveillance, and monitoring of organizing beyond Minnesota. We are witnessing a rapid escalation from immigration enforcement to mass surveillance to repression of domestic organizers. Sweeping up peaceful observers and local watch groups into intelligence databases and dragnets is meant to deter public participation. We're spending millions and possibly billions of dollars spying, repressing, and building cases against ordinary Americans just for exercising their rights and engaging in civic participation. Why are American citizens who express a valid discontent with the current direction of certain policies being treated like terrorists? The main contrast on this issue is that it is NOT actually a rational, civilized ideology to wear masks, abduct people, and human-traffick them into concentration camps. And it is definitely a rational, civilized ideology for civilians to want to resist this, just like rational, civilized Americans often resisted the Fugitive Slave Act.