@Powerfromspace1 This is how low level #cops, #sheriffs, #troopers, #ice and all manner of #lawenforcement feel empowered to do as they feel. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if some #ice gopher did this as retaliation for being rejected by a #Canadian he hit on.
@msfreepress This is when local #cops, #sheriffs and #state popo are unleashed to run roughshod over people they don't like. If you ever mouthed off to a cop, you're SOL. If you ever filed a complaint, you're up the creek. If you ever contested a ticket. kiss your ass goodbye bc they now own your ass.
@rbreich Yo Bob, take your optimism and stick it where the sun don't shine. We're in throes of a civil war, yammering from atop your high horse in academia isn't going to stop #MAGAmoron from ordering #troops, #sheriffs and #cops to fire at will into crowds of protestors. I hope you know how to protect yourself when they show up to march you off to a concentration camp.
https://www.europesays.com/1818223/ NC moves to remove police from mental health care #america #CAHOOTS #DukeLawWilsonCenterForScienceAndJustice #Entertainment #health #HEARTProgram #InvoluntaryCommitment #NCDepartmentOfHealthAndHumanServices #NCDHHSSec.KodyKinsley #NCGeneralAssembly #NorthCarolinaSheriffs’Association #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #SeekingHelp #sheriffs #sports #TreatmentAdvocacyCenter #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA
@TucsonSentinel I've been beating this drum for months. #AgentOrange will deputize all #NationalGuard, #statetroopers, #sheriffs and local #police to carry out his #redneck #racist policies with impunity. Blue states will be overwhelmed by people who leave everything behind to escape redneck states. Those who refuse to leave will be rounded up and imprisoned a'la 1942 #concentrationcamps.
Far-Right #Sheriffs Want to Carry Out Donald Trump's #MassDeportations. That’s Not Possible
Across the US, sheriffs say they’re willing to do whatever they can to help Donald Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, expel millions of #immigrants. Legally, that isn’t much.
#farright #deportation #donaldtrump #Trump
https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-sheriffs-donald-trump-mass-deportations-constitutional/
Meet the Far-Right #Constitutional #Sheriffs Ready to Assert Control if #Trump Loses
There are hundreds of #ConstitutionalSheriffs around the country who believe they are the ultimate legal power in their county. We break down how they have coalesced with the election denial movement.
#ElectionDenial #election #election2024 #djt #donaldtrump #maga
https://www.wired.com/story/constitutional-sheriffs-election-denial/
'Take Back the States': The Far-Right #Sheriffs Ready to Disrupt the #Election
#ConstitutionalSheriffs are duly elected lawmen who believe they answer only to god. They've spent the last six months preparing to stop a "stolen" election—by any means necessary.
#election2024 #farright
https://www.wired.com/story/constitutional-sheriffs-disrupt-election/
How #sheriffs define #lawandorder for their #counties depends on their #views, with most being #white #Republican #men.
With exceptions, #sheriffs often use their #power to keep an unequal balance in society along #racial and #class lines.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Ohio #Police #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #Xenophobia #ThePartyOfHate
MAGA Sheriff Faces Consequences for Threatening Own Constituents
Portage County, Ohio, Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski asked his constituents to report local Kamala Harris supporters
https://newrepublic.com/post/186241/sheriff-election-duty-donald-trump-kamala-harris
#sheriffs #MAGAsheriff #Ohio # BruceZuchowski #authoritarianism #GOP #Trumpism #EnablingFascism #MAGA #xenophobia #ElectoralFraud #VoterSuppression
We can't have voter intimidation at polling places. Aren't these the "free speech" people? Why are they targeting people for their yard signs?
MAGA Sheriff’s Post About Kamala Harris Yard Signs Gets Department Booted From Election Duties
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-sheriffs-post-about-kamala-harris-yard-signs-gets-department-booted-from-election-duties
#voterintimidation #sheriffs #ConstitutionalSheriffs #maga #freespeech #fascism #electionsecurity
Ohio sheriff tells residents to write down the addresses of Harris-Walz supporters
Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski urged residents of an Ohio county to report neighbors with Harris-Walz signs
https://www.salon.com/2024/09/16/ohio-sheriff-tells-residents-to-write-down-the-addresses-of-harris-walz-supporters
* Ohio Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski: https://brucezforsheriff.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_County,_Ohio#Government
#sheriffs #Ohio # BruceZuchowski #authoritarianism #GOP #Trumpism #EnablingFascism #MAGA #xenophobia #ElectoralFraud #VoterSuppression
Constitutional sheriffs wield unchecked power across America
Jessica Pishko says a group of sheriffs have become a flashpoint in current politics of toxic masculinity, guns, white supremacy, rural resentment
* Jessica Pishko (book): The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko
Woman claims her #Christian #megachurch banned her for criticizing the #pastor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnV0XIstzs4
James River Church in #Missouri allegedly kicked out Rahela Petian for daring to criticize their pastor. They even called on #sheriffs to arrest her (in front of her children!) at #church just before a service.
Now she wants the whole damn world to know about it.
More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade — and it's increasingly happening in small towns and rural areas.
"The Justice Department declined to comment."
#USA #Police #Sheriffs #CountySheriffs #LawEnforcement
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/county-sheriffs-deaths-accountability/
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Sam talks with three experts on widespread local fascist organizing around the country including the so-called Constitutional Sheriffs movement, the embrace by local governments of right wing militias and fascist efforts to modify the constitution itself. Devin Burghart (@dburghart) is the Executive Director, at the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights. Carolyn Gallaher is a professor at American University. She has written about rightwing paramilitaries in the U.S. and Northern Ireland. Read more from her here. Follow her on Twitter at @C_OGallachoir or at Bluesky at @cgallaher.bsky.social. CJ Spencer (@ByCJSpencer) wrote How the Far Right-Wing Plans to Obliterate More of Our Constitutional Rights. Read more from them here. Upcoming Event!Join us for our next Patron-only Virtual Event:Sunday April 28, 5PM ET Book Club Chat discussing Prophet Song by Paul Lynch Register for Zoom at http://patreon.com/RefuseFascism (see pinned post)*Not a patron? Fix that here: http://patreon.com/RefuseFascism Find out more about Refuse Fascism and get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky. Plus, Sam is on TikTok, check out @samgoldmanrf. You can also send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Record a voice message for the show here. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org · http://patreon.com/RefuseFascism · Venmo: Refuse-Fascism · Cashapp: $RefuseFascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown Mentioned in this Episode: Inside the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University by Lara-Nour Walton (The Nation) January 6 insurrectionists had a great day in the Supreme Court today (Most of the justices seem to want to make it harder to prosecute January 6 rioters.) by Ian Millhiser (Vox) The Supreme Court’s confusing new anti-trans decision, explained (The Court mostly reinstates Idaho’s ban on transgender health care for children.) by Ian Millhiser (Vox) The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states (It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.) by Ian Millhiser (Vox) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/refuse-fascism/message
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/refuse-fascism/episodes/Constitutional-Sheriffs--Militias--and-Other-Local-Fascist-Initiatives-e2imivh #refusefascism #maga #ConstitutionalSheriffs #militias #Sheriffs #rightwingExtremists #antifascism #StopFascism
Far-Right #Sheriffs Want a #CitizenArmy to Stop 'Illegal Immigrant' #Voters
Speakers at a conference for #ConstitutionalSheriffs claimed that #militias need to patrol polling stations to stop the "expected flood" of #immigrant voters.
#rights #farright #election
https://www.wired.com/story/constitutional-sheriffs-election-deniers-immigrants-voting/
In 1845, millions of Irish fled the famine, the majority coming to the U.S.
Nearly half of all U.S. immigrants in the 1840s were Irish.
The racism against them was phenomenal.
There were the No Irish Need Apply signs outside businesses looking for workers.
Anti-Irish nativist gangs, like New York’s Bowery Boys, and Baltimore’s Plug Uglies carried out pogroms in Irish communities.
These gangs often affiliated with political parties like the No Nothings and the Republicans.
Irish gangs, affiliated with the Democratic Party, began to form for self-defense.
At least twenty people died in anti-Irish riots in Philadelphia in 1844.
Irish Origins of the Myth of the Molly Maguires
According to legend, there was a widow living in Ireland in the 1840s named Molly Maguire,
who hated the landlords who were abusing the poor tenant farmers.
She supposedly carried a pistol strapped to each thigh.
She, or her followers, would beat or murder the tyrannical landlords, their agents, and bailiffs, whenever they tried to evict a tenant.
No one knows if she ever really existed, but other tenant farmer activists were said to cry out,
“Take that from a son of Molly Maguire!” when protesting against unscrupulous landlords.
@MikeDunnAuthor
#Pinkerton #Detective #Agency #Reading #Railroad #Black #Thursday #Molly #Maguires #union #activists #sheriffs #school #board