The arrest of a US army veteran who protested against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has raised alarms among legal experts and fellow veterans familiar with his service in Afghanistan.
Bajun Mavalwalla II – a former army sergeant who survived a roadside bomb blast on a special operations mission in Afghanistan – was charged in July with “conspiracy to impede or injure officers” after joining a demonstration against federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in Spokane, Washington.
Legal experts say the case marks an escalation in the administration’s attacks on first amendment rights. Afghanistan war veterans who know him say the case against Mavalwalla appears unjust.
Doesn’t even matter if charges are filed, a couple days in jail fucking sucks. And it doesn’t just discourage the person in jail. It’s a message to every other potential protestor: “this could be you”.
But they can’t lockup everyone, their strategy only works if it gets protestors reduced to the amount they could imprison.
If they get the opposite reaction and more protestors, it backfires on them.
It doesn’t backfire if their goal is to find an excuse to kill a bunch of protesters.
I fear they are waiting for their Reichstag fire. On the other hand, IMHO the only way to deal with this is to get all Canadian with the White House…
US population outnumbers the military 342 to 1 (maybe 200 to 1 if not counting elderly and children), and the current administration keeps proving time and time again the military means fuck all to them. This is where Trump and his fucksticks are failing spectacularly. Previous dictators have bribed the shit out of their militaries to generate favor and compliance. Trump insults them, places them in dumbass situations, finds ways to screw them from pay, etc. The ICE funding was a way to create a private army of devotees. But a large portion of them are gravy seals, chucklefucks who think top score on COD will help them in actual battles. They got ran out of towns by bag toting grannies for fucks sake. At least, I tell myself this at night to sleep without living in constant fear of full out slavery and dogmatic oppression. And yes, I do realize that the civilian population has a large amount of support for him, but many of them will hipefully change their minds if it finally affects them.
EVEN JUST A FEW HOURS SUCKS. I know from experience.
Fuck the police. ACAB.
The whole time I was just worried about if I was gonna be deported, then I remembered my mother is a citizen so I also have derivative citizenship. But still, it triggered me so much, I was constantly ruminating/thinking about the alternate timelines where I got deported. Still think about it from time to time, heck, with the current ICE nazification, it can still happen right now. Police sirens scared the shit out of me, I could be just chilling playing a horror game, and then the siren blares through the neighborhood and I my heartrate goes even above being faced with monsters in a game (because the monsters in real life (aka: cops) are much scarier), I essentially go into fight or flight mode.
Like I had so many traumatic events throught my life, this unlawful arrest was the final nail in the coffin, I feel like I have permanent brian damage.
Parents have betrayed me, my brother has betrayed me, my country of birth betrayed me, now I’m in a different country and still dealing with authoritarian bullshit, like these corrupt pigs. Never felt like I have a safe place anywhere in this world, this world is hostile.